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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Here’s Professor James Mills, arguably the most authoritative historian of cannabis, with a quick tour of the first of his two books on the little-known role of the British Empire in the Asian cannabis trade: Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and…
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Indicas vs Sativas or Central Asian vs South Asian cannabis… More accurately, the distribution of wild-growing Central and South Asian cannabis populations from whose truly wild ancestors Indicas and Sativas were domesticated, respectively, beginning perhaps 5500 years ago. Note the…
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A new addition to the ’90s classics just arrived, a very nice Sativa-leaning old-school Skunk that folks familiar with late ’80s and early ’90s Amsterdam will recognize: ‘Skunk Special’ Shown in the image is Skunk Special 90, which joins a…
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Here’s part three, in which Conor and I roam across further cannabis-rich terrain, wherein we encounter The rebellious cannabis-fuelled mystic warrior brotherhoods of Persianate Islam (ayyars, javanmards, or futuvvat) Anarchist qalandar dervishes, the original hashish fiends par excellence How traditional…
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Here’s the second part of three of the podcast episode I recorded with Conor on Cannabis & Alchemy. As always when rambling like this, there are a fair few inaccurate or misleading things I said that need clarifying here. For…
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The first of three parts of the Cannabis & Alchemy podcast episode I recorded with Conor of CANNAMANtv is now up on YouTube. This is the first time in which I feature as a friendly animated cannabis seed, but as…
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The ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in the Ānandakanda, a c. 15th Century work most likely composed at Srisailam, southeast India. Shown is Matsyendranāth, one of the semi-legendary Nine Nāths listed in the Ānandakanda. Siddhas – meaning Tantric adepts…
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There is a far older word for seedless bud than ‘sinsemilla’, namely ‘ganja’. The so-called ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in Sanskrit sometime from the 12th through 16th Centuries in a compendious text on alchemy named the Ānandakanda (आनन्दकन्द)…
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New landrace accessions direct from Nepal – sourced during the harvest of Winter 2021: Dolpa – Far West Nepal, Multipurpose Jumla – Far West Nepal, Multipurpose Dakshinkali – Central Nepal, ‘Mountain Ganja’ Kathmandu Valley – Central Nepal, Multipurpose Dolpa and…
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