Ganja – Big Sur, California – 1970
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‘Lao Gold’ – New Stock, 2023 Harvest
New ‘Lao Gold’ landrace seeds are in stock from the same farmer, 2023 harvest * A recent customer review of our ‘Lao Gold’, which is a pristine old-school cannabis landrace of the type some aficionados call a ‘Lowland Thai’: “I’ve…
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Idukki ‘Blue Dreadlocks’ Landrace Ganja – Kerala
‘Kerala’ ganja landrace – a customer photo c. 15 weeks indoors in a 5 gallon pot. ‘Very strong mint garden spice aroma’, writes the grower – ‘very narrow leaves.’ This is the classic South Indian landrace also called ‘Idukki’, after…
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Cannabis Culture in the Punjab
Shiva and Parvati prepare bhang (cannabis) – Sikh woodcut, Lahore – c. 1870 * Produced by Sikh artisans for Hindu pilgrims and collected at a local fair or bazaar by John Lockwood Kipling while he was director from 1875 to…
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Mangas & Greek Cannabis Landraces
An illustration of hashish-smoking mangas from ‘Thugs & Cutthroats’ by Elias Petropoulos, a great scholar of the Greek underworld and hashish culture. * ‘Arcadian’, ‘Cretan’, and ‘Kalamata Red’ old-school Greek hashish strains are available now, only at The Real Seed…
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Richard Evans Schultes with Nasrullah Tokhi of the ‘Tokhi Brothers’
So, in response to replies to the ‘question’ asked last month about who the gentleman pictured here with Richard Evans Schultes is – no, this isn’t Schultes’ guide Abdul Rahman. Taking the notes at the Harvard Archives to imply that…
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A Deep Dive into Cannabis Landraces with The Real Seed Company | Podcast
New – A Deep Dive into Cannabis History, Landraces, Law, and Cannabis Preservation * The first in a series of stoned ramblings with Angus and Macky and co of High on Home Grown. * The photo shows Ganesh Baba, a…
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Landraces, Hybrids, and Phenotypes | High On Home Grown Podcast
Here’s a new chat about landraces and traditional cannabis cultures with Angus and the good people of High on Home Grown | The Cannabis Podcast. The photo is by a Chitrali friend from his land in the high Hindu Kush…
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Gañjā in the Ānandakanda – India, 15th Century
‘Gañjā’ in the Ānandakanda, a compendium on alchemy from c. 15th Century India and the first text in history to describe the ‘sinsemilla technique’ for producing potent, resinous seedless bud (gañjā). The Sanskrit name ‘Ānandakanda’ can be translated as the…
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Balkhi first garda, primo Afghan hashish – 2007
Balkhi ‘first garda’, 2007 primo unpressed north Afghan resin from beyond Mazar-i-Sharif… The massive scale of the 2006 and 2007 cannabis harvests in northern Afghanistan saw unprecedented availability of the highest grades of Afghan charas everywhere from Amsterdam and Berlin…
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