Charas or Hashish?, a piece on misconceptions about traditional cannabis resin, is updated regarding ‘attarchi’ and ‘attari’, names mostly used by old-timers in the Uttarakhand Himalaya and Nepal for chronic charas smokers (‘charsis’). ‘Attar’ is a popular name in these…
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As of today (28/09/2021), freebies with all orders are as follows: Ukhrul – 12 seeds Afghan Mix – 5 seeds That means any order of any strain in any quantity gets 17 freebie seeds. The photo shows as a ganja…
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Xinjiang was once at the heart of global cannabis production, supplying Central Asian sieved charas (hashish) to what was the world’s largest market for cannabis drugs, India. The Xinjiang charas trade came to a sudden halt in the 1930s following…
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This one looks at the new PRC study on origins, nomads and Cannabis, Scythian death rites and warfare, anarchist qalandars, battlefield yogis, orgiastic Kaulas, and the future of Cannabis in Afghanistan… among other things… The image is a battle between…
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Here’s a new chat on the Growroom420 podcast: Endangered strains, ancient centres of cultivation in Central Asia, what “landrace” means, the origins of ganja and more… The photo shows some hand-rubbed charas from Garhwal in the Indian Himalaya.
An email today from a start-up in India looking to import seeds of the European hemp cultivar Kompolti to cultivate in the Himalaya was another reminder of just how quickly things we take for granted will vanish. Indigenous Central and…
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New freebies with any order of any strain in any quantity: 12 seeds of Rasoli, a very large strain that produces among the most renowned charas in the Himalaya. Seeds tested c. 80% viability. 12 seeds of Bokeo, a ganja…
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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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Behold, a master a work! Check out ‘Charas or Hashish?’ for more on the qalandars and the history of charas. Photo from Balkh Province, Afghanistan 2018 by Lucas Strazzeri.
‘Endangered Varieties of subsp. indica: A Few Thoughts‘ is new at the blog. I discuss McPartland and Small’s crucial new study, ‘A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives‘, and dive into some…
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