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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The book the oligarchs don’t want you to read: ‘The road from Moscow to Kiev passes through Belgravia, London. For decades, the London Laundromat has helped keep Putin in power.’ How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats…
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You can give direct to Ukrainian humanitarian aid agencies and the Ukrainian Army here or here or here For evidence-based perspectives on Ukraine you can trust – honest and objectively verifiable – check out this featuring HIV/Aids specialist Chris Beyrer:
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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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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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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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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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 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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About to record an episode for the excellent CANNAMANtv podcast and honoured to join a list of guests that includes Tommy Chong, Roger Pertwee, and among the finest cannabis historians, Professor James Mills. Check out Prof Mills’ book Cannabis Britannica…
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