There are three essential types of Nepali cannabis landrace strain: Himalayan multipurpose, ‘mountain ganja’, and the true ganja landraces cultivated down on the subtropical Terai along the border with India. For examples of multipurpose Himalayan landraces see accessions such as…
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Here’s a c. 1940s shot of a cannabis landrace entitled ‘The Hashish Plant’. The plate is from Egyptian Service: 1902 – 1946 by the British colonial counternarcotics cop Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell, better known as ‘Russell Pasha’. Russell doesn’t specify…
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The current extra seeds automatically added to every order are the following cannabis landrace strains, both collected directly at source, both traditional multipurpose domesticates for seed, fibre, and charas from the terraced mountainsides of the northern Kumaon Himalaya: ‘Kumaoni’ –…
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‘Homa’ or ‘haoma’ is the name used in the Avesta for the plant or substance the Vedas know as ‘Soma’. The most widely accepted candidate for this mysterious ancient Iranian and Indo-Iranian ritual intoxicant – if that’s even what it…
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Tonight is Mahashivratri – the Great Night of Shiva – globally far and away the most stoned day of the year, when many millions of folks in India and Nepal and around the world take part in celebrations in which…
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The new extra seeds automatically added to every order are the following landraces, both collected directly at source, one from the desert oases of southern Afghanistan, the other from the terraced mountainsides of the northern Kumaon Himalaya: Helmand – 5…
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Newly collected cannabis landrace accessions direct from Afghanistan – all of which I’ve lumped into the Hindu Kush section, despite a couple being collected from just beyond the Hindu Kush: Panjshir Helmand Nangarhar Mazar-i-Sharif #2 The image shows our 2007…
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There’s a new meme going round among cannabis aficionados which involves variations on a theme of “You can’t use ‘strain’ to refer to Cannabis or any other plants because the term ‘strain’ is only for viruses.” As with so much…
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Jason of Curious About Cannabis has just made the full podcast episode on McPartland and Small’s Cannabis taxonomy freely available – previously much of it was behind a paywall. This was recorded back in 2020 at the height of Covid,…
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Lucas has a new photographic piece that expands on his adventures in the Hindu Kush and northern Afghanistan, which – if you haven’t already – you can follow in his new illustrated edition of Afghanistan: Fortress of Cannabis and his…
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