Belief that “Cannabis comes from China” has rapidly taken root among pot aficionados and the wider public since a new PRC genomics study on the origin of Cannabis. Plants and seeds are increasingly getting coopted by ethnonationalist autocracies to confer…
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Far too many aficionados still believe that landraces are wild plants – ‘wild’ in the sense of naturally occurring spontaneous creations of nature. This is exactly wrong – in other words, not just inaccurate but the very opposite of the…
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New at CANNAMANtv – enjoyed this and looking forward to the next one on Cannabis & Alchemy. Shown in East London at the Royal Albert Dock working on hemp cordage for rigging are a group of lascars. Lascars were block-hired…
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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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