Once upon a time, ‘landrace’ was an obscure technical term employed only by botanists and other specialists who understood what it means. Now, however, landrace is on its way to global popular use in international Cannabis commerce and discourse. Or…
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Ecologically destructive practices and mistaken views about the climate emergency are rife among the Cannabis tribe. Ceaseless extolling of the very real virtues of hemp has meant too little awareness that most commercial pot production right now is apocalyptic. Hemp…
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None other than Bob Marley himself explained to High Times about ‘Lamb’s bread’ and what this name really means. Bob Marley: One time I was in Jamaica, was doin’ a show, an’ a man come up to me, and he…
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Here’s John McPartland discussing the likely origin of Cannabis and how he arrived at the conclusion it’s probably northeastern Tibet, i.e. Amdo / Qinghai:
Here’s the original landrace ramble I recorded with the most excellent Jason of ‘Curious About Cannabis‘. The origins of hashish, the sacramental cannabis culture of the qalandars, expeditions in Afghanistan, and the ancient diffusion of cultivation out of Central Asia…
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The unchecked spread of modern hybrid strains out of the West is in no one’s interest, least of all farmers in traditional regions of cultivation and Cannabis biodiversity. A new post is up at the main blog looking at how…
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Recently, we’ve made some wild-type (“wild” or weedy) accessions from South and Central Asia available. Wild-type seeds exhibit slow and staggered germination. Almost all commercially available Cannabis seeds are of domesticated types such as hybrids or landraces. Domesticated seeds readily…
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