About to record an episode for the excellent CANNAMANtv podcast and honoured to join a list of guests that includes Tommy Chong, Roger Pertwee, and among the finest cannabis historians, Professor James Mills. Check out Prof Mills’ book Cannabis Britannica…
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A new accession direct from Shan State, an ethnically Tai region of Burma. ‘Tai’ refers collectively to Thai, Lao, Shan and many other groups from Southeast Asia, all of who share – to greater or lesser degrees – a tradition…
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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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Sadhus prepare bhang (cannabis) to drink or eat in the painting ‘Mughals Visit an Encampment of Sadhus’ by Mir Sayyid Ali c. 1565 Dashnami Naga camps today are in all but the obvious details essentially identical, except that you will…
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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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‘Everything Comes from China!’ A response to the already notorious new genomics study from Guangfeng Ren et al. is now up at the main blog: Did Cannabis and its Cultivation Originate in China? It’s rather a serious piece, so if…
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Did you know the so-called “sinsemilla technique” was already employed in tropical India at least 500 years ago? Check out the latest post on the true roots of sensi. The painting is Dervish Receiving a Visitor, Bijapur, India c. 1620….
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None other than Bob Marley himself explained to High Times about ‘Lamb’s bread’ and what this name really means. Bob Marley: One time I was in Jamaica, was doin’ a show, an’ a man come up to me, and he…
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