‘Ganja plant ready for cutting, some of the dead leaves still adhering, Naogaon.’ – Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893-1894 *** The two high-end traditional cannabis drug products are ganja (sinsemilla or ‘semi-sensi’) and charas (resin, either hand-rubbed…
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The colonisation of Central Asia by the Tsarist and Soviet Empires from the 1860s to 1930s saw a sudden collapse of cannabis cultivation around historic charas-producing centres such as Bukhara and Xinjiang, the latter under Governor Sheng Shicai, a Soviet-backed…
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To go with the new chat with Aussie Gunja Man here’s a great painting of stoned yogis from 1780s Rajasthan. Satirical paintings of ascetics (Hindu or Muslim) in states of extreme wastedness were a long-running theme in Indian art by…
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First, just to clear up that freebie seeds with all orders at The Real Seed Company and Kwik Seeds are currently Kumaoni (12 seeds) and Nepali Highland #3 (5 seeds). Kumaoni is a Himalayan multipurpose landrace cultivated for use as…
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This is a great introduction by Will Self to a ‘practice’ or ‘discipline’ with deep roots in cannabis culture: psychogeography. Those roots are so deep that they ultimately reach far back into the phenomenon of the band — both the hunter–gatherer band…
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For fans of old-school Sativa landraces, here’s a classic morlam track from 1977: ‘Bong Ja Bong!’ – ‘Bong, Oh Bong!’ The singer, Dao Bandon, celebrates the pleasures of what westerners of the day called ‘Thai stick’ and folks from Laos…
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The 1970s – not the ’60s – is when cannabis really took off in the US. ‘Marijuana’ skyrocketed in popularity between 1969 and 1979, by which time American college students who’d never got stoned were a dwindling minority and around…
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You can find a wide range of ‘autoflowering’ and ‘semiautoflowering’ landrace and feral cannabis varieties here at The Real Seed Company. ‘Autoflowering’ in cannabis means plants go into flower based only on their age. ‘Auto’ is the opposite of ‘photoperiod’…
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We get a lot of messages from folks seeking landraces from the Caribbean or Central and South America here at The Real Seed Company. Over at our other site, we do have a growing collection of really good heirlooms and…
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The second half of the episode on Tai landraces is out – following up on the chat based on this blog post: Ancient Yunnan and the Tai roots of Indian Cannabis Culture That’s ‘Tai’ as in Lao, Thai, and Shan…….
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