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 great origin story or foundation myth of cannabis and counterculture is that of Hassan-i-Sabbah and his Order of Assassins. A fusion of fact and Orientalist fiction, the Assassin Legends are rooted in the era of the Crusades. Popularised in…
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The plant hunter Frank Meyer is shown in China in this photo from 1910, while working for the US Department of Agriculture. In December of this year, after a gruelling trek through the winter desert and mountains of southern Xinjiang,…
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The 1970s – not the ’60s – are 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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One of the best lines to come out of early 1990s Amsterdam was ‘Citral’, a classic of the era’s coffee shop menus and seed catalogues. Shown above is an original early 90s F1 cross between ‘Citral’ and DJ Short’s ‘Flo’,…
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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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Part 1 of a new podcast episode with Angus and Matt of Riot Seeds is out now on The Breeders Syndicate podcast. This ramble through cannabis culture starts in Yunnan with the ancient origins of Tai landraces and from there…
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