Here’s a new podcast episode with Angus of The Real Seed Company and Conor talking cannabis landraces, preservation, hybrids, and British plutocracy in the modern and historic cannabis trade. The image shows a plant from a maintenance grow of an…
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Greek cannabis strains are a wise choice if you’re working outdoors beyond the 30th parallel and want to use the crop as bud. Greek strains have two major advantages: They’re early maturing and they’ve undergone decades of selection for use…
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Enjoy this Summer of Love footage from the ‘Legalize Pot Rally’ at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. Featured are Allen Ginsberg and the rally’s organizer – the parapsychologist and cannabis law reform campaigner, Stephen Abrams. Abrams can be seen…
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Here are some vintage photographs of the landrace that Afghan cannabis farmers know as ‘Mazari’, ‘Balkhi’, or ‘Mazar-i-Sharif’. The images were emailed to me by an old-timer who brought the seed from northern Afghanistan to the United States in the…
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Hybridization is the main cause of extinction of Cannabis, not the cops. * Introducing modern seed to regions like the Hindu Kush and Himalaya sets in motion unstoppable, irreversible and permanent loss of biodiversity right in the most crucial centres…
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Here’s a recent live Q&A on landraces featuring Angus with Macky and Monkey of High on Homegrown. A quick note in response to some comments in chat: It’s really important that people *do not* ever take modern seeds to ancient…
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Angus talks landraces and cannabis culture with Chad Westport on The Friendly Cannabis Show / Future Cannabis Project:
‘Down By The River’ – Big Sur, 1970 *
‘Kerala’ ganja landrace – a customer photo c. 15 weeks indoors in a 5 gallon pot. ‘Very strong mint garden spice aroma’, writes the grower – ‘very narrow leaves.’ This is the classic South Indian landrace also called ‘Idukki’, after…
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Shiva and Parvati prepare bhang (cannabis) – Sikh woodcut, Lahore – c. 1870 * Produced by Sikh artisans for Hindu pilgrims and collected at a local fair or bazaar by John Lockwood Kipling while he was director from 1875 to…
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