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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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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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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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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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, a compendium on alchemy from c. 15th Century India and arguably the first text in history to describe – or at very least strongly imply – the ‘sinsemilla technique’ for producing potent, resinous seedless bud (gañjā)….
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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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Here’s the full photo of ‘Kandivi’, the Indica-type landrace collected by Frank Meyer in the winter of 1910 in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and shown here at a USDA research station in Nevada in 1913. As noted in a USDA bulletin…
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Afghanistan, 1971 – left is the legendary Harvard ethnobotanist, Richard Evans Schultes; but who can name the gent pictured right? Even Schultes’ most ardent acolyte is on record to avow that his guru acted in bad faith during those pivotal…
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Here’s a very stoned photo of some Kashmiri garda charas c. 2008 – because seeds of a Kashmiri landrace are now available. Kashmiri cannabis earned a legendary reputation among westerners during the heyday of the Hippie Trail, mostly for various…
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