Representing the wild-type relatives of Indicas, the var. asperrima type specimen is from seed collected by the great Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov on 1920s plant hunting expeditions through centres of Central Asian charas production such as Bukhara, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang…
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Indicas vs Sativas or Central Asian vs South Asian cannabis… More accurately, the distribution of wild-growing Central and South Asian cannabis populations from whose truly wild ancestors Indicas and Sativas were domesticated, respectively, beginning perhaps 5500 years ago. Note the…
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Afghanistan: Fortress of Cannabis – a wonderful photography book by Lucas Strazzeri that documents his winter 2018 journey through Balkh Province – is now available in hardcover or e-book. Lucas and I first met in 2007 in Peshawar, when I…
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To really know cannabis – its character, its roots, the worlds from which it emerged – you have to know the deep history and deep geography of Ukraine, in particular an encounter on the Black Sea Steppe between the ancient…
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Order any strain in any quantity and you will automatically receive 17 extra seeds: 12 Kathmandu Valley + 5 Afghan Mix Kathmandu Valley is a traditional Nepali Himalaya multipurpose domesticate for seed, fibre, and charas. Its very large seeds are…
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A new addition to the ’90s classics just arrived, a very nice Sativa-leaning old-school Skunk that folks familiar with late ’80s and early ’90s Amsterdam will recognize: ‘Skunk Special’ Shown in the image is Skunk Special 90, which joins a…
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Here’s part three, in which Conor and I roam across further cannabis-rich terrain, wherein we encounter The rebellious cannabis-fuelled mystic warrior brotherhoods of Persianate Islam (ayyars, javanmards, or futuvvat) Anarchist qalandar dervishes, the original hashish fiends par excellence How traditional…
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Here’s the second part of three of the podcast episode I recorded with Conor on Cannabis & Alchemy. As always when rambling like this, there are a fair few inaccurate or misleading things I said that need clarifying here. For…
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The first of three parts of the Cannabis & Alchemy podcast episode I recorded with Conor of CANNAMANtv is now up on YouTube. This is the first time in which I feature as a friendly animated cannabis seed, but as…
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The 2019 accession from the Khorasan region of Iran and the genbank Syrian landrace are both back in stock. The Syrian is a lovely plant, early maturing, with great aromas. The Iranian is a big-yielder and while we can’t be…
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