Short answer – no, they are not. A landrace is a type of domesticate. In other words, landraces are created by humans. In that sense, landraces are exactly the opposite of ‘wild’ or ‘natural’. Landraces are crops that are cultivated…
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The photo shows a hashish smoke-up at a ‘tekke’ in early C20 Greece. Tekkes were cafes or dives in Greek ports such as Piraeus where tokers gathered to smoke hashish, drink tea and coffee, and listen to the music of…
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‘Indicas’ cultivated in America in 1913 at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) research station in Nevada. ‘Kandivi’ is the Uyghur name for this Indica-type cannabis landrace that was once cultivated around the oases and irrigated valleys south of…
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‘Chitrali’ is our name for an accession of a cannabis landrace cultivated in Yarkhun Valley in the high Hindu Kush for dry-sieved charas, seed for food, and bhang…. That’s ‘bhang’ in the sense of leaf and coarse seeded inflorescence…. For…
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There are three essential types of Nepali cannabis landrace strain: Himalayan multipurpose, ‘mountain ganja’, and the true ganja landraces cultivated down on the subtropical Terai along the border with India. For examples of multipurpose Himalayan landraces see accessions such as…
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Here’s a c. 1940s shot of a cannabis landrace entitled ‘The Hashish Plant’. The plate is from Egyptian Service: 1902 – 1946 by the British colonial counternarcotics cop Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell, better known as ‘Russell Pasha’. Russell doesn’t specify…
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The current extra seeds automatically added to every order are the following cannabis landrace strains, both collected directly at source, both traditional multipurpose domesticates for seed, fibre, and charas from the terraced mountainsides of the northern Kumaon Himalaya: ‘Kumaoni’ –…
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The new extra seeds automatically added to every order are the following landraces, both collected directly at source, one from the desert oases of southern Afghanistan, the other from the terraced mountainsides of the northern Kumaon Himalaya: Helmand – 5…
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Newly collected cannabis landrace accessions direct from Afghanistan – all of which I’ve lumped into the Hindu Kush section, despite a couple being collected from just beyond the Hindu Kush: Panjshir Helmand Nangarhar Mazar-i-Sharif #2 The image shows our 2007…
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Jason of Curious About Cannabis has just made the full podcast episode on McPartland and Small’s Cannabis taxonomy freely available – previously much of it was behind a paywall. This was recorded back in 2020 at the height of Covid,…
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