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New with All Orders – 12 Kumaoni Himalayan + 5 Afghan Mix

All orders of any strain in any quantity receive 17 seeds: 12 Kumaoni + 5 Afghan Mix Kumaoni is a Himalayan multipurpose domesticate for seed, fibre, and charas. Afghan Mix – see image – comprises accessions from northern Afghanistan that…
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Cigarettes and Asanas

A naga baba performs the cigarette asana…. Tobacco arrived in India in the early 1600s with European merchants and rapidly catalyzed a widespread new popular culture of smoking cannabis. Only at the end of the 1700s do Indian paintings begin…
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New with All Orders – 12 Johaar Himalayan + 5 Afghan Mix

All orders of any strain in any quantity receive 17 seeds: 12 Johaar + 5 Afghan Mix Johaar is a pristine Himalayan multipurpose domesticate for seed, fibre, and charas – c. 80% viable seeds Afghan Mix comprises accessions from northern…
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‘Thai Stick’ or ‘Lao Stick’?

Export ganja fields, Bolikhamsai, Central Laos – crop eradication by the Lao PDR army, who burned about 100 hectares this week, a pointless symbolic gesture that achieved little more than perhaps to increase wholesale prices. * Bolikhamsai is one of…
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Does Cannabis Come from China?

Belief that “Cannabis comes from China” has rapidly taken root among pot aficionados and the wider public since a new PRC genomics study on the origin of Cannabis. Plants and seeds are increasingly getting coopted by ethnonationalist autocracies to confer…
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What is a Landrace Strain?

Far too many aficionados still believe that landraces are wild plants – ‘wild’ in the sense of naturally occurring spontaneous creations of nature. This is exactly wrong – in other words, not just inaccurate but the very opposite of the…
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What’s in a Bong?

Hits from the bong, Tai – yes, Tai – style… ‘Bong’ is a word of Lao and Thai origin – from a length of bamboo pipe – but despite mostly getting used for cannabis in the West, in Southeast Asia…
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New cannabis ramble on CANNAMANtv

New at CANNAMANtv – enjoyed this and looking forward to the next one on Cannabis & Alchemy. Shown in East London at the Royal Albert Dock working on hemp cordage for rigging are a group of lascars. Lascars were block-hired…
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