Enjoy this Summer of Love footage from the ‘Legalize Pot Rally’ at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. Featured are Allen Ginsberg and the rally’s organizer – the parapsychologist and cannabis law reform campaigner, Stephen Abrams. Abrams can be seen…
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Here are some vintage photographs of the landrace that Afghan cannabis farmers know as ‘Mazari’, ‘Balkhi’, or ‘Mazar-i-Sharif’. The images were emailed to me by an old-timer who brought the seed from northern Afghanistan to the United States in the…
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Hybridization is the main cause of extinction of Cannabis, not the cops. * Introducing modern seed to regions like the Hindu Kush and Himalaya sets in motion unstoppable, irreversible and permanent loss of biodiversity right in the most crucial centres…
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Here’s a recent live Q&A on landraces featuring Angus with Macky and Monkey of High on Homegrown. A quick note in response to some comments in chat: It’s really important that people *do not* ever take modern seeds to ancient…
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Angus talks landraces and cannabis culture with Chad Westport on The Friendly Cannabis Show / Future Cannabis Project:
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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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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