There’s a far older name for seedless bud than ‘sinsemilla’, namely ‘ganja’. To be clear, ‘ganja’ is not a catch-all term for any type of cannabis drug – though aficionados in the west may sometimes misuse it that way. Ganja…
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Short answer – no, they are not. A landrace is a type of domesticate. In other words, landraces are created by humans. In that sense, landraces are exactly the opposite of ‘wild’ or ‘natural’. Landraces are crops that are cultivated…
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The photo shows a hashish smoke-up at a ‘tekke’ in early C20 Greece. Tekkes were cafes or dives in Greek ports such as Piraeus where tokers gathered to smoke hashish, drink tea and coffee, and listen to the music of…
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Above is a 1973 shot of a Hmong oldster smoking a bong of tobacco. Below is a snap of seeds of a Hmong hemp landrace about to be germination tested after collection in Northeast Laos this week. For some background…
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‘Indicas’ cultivated in America in 1913 at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) research station in Nevada. ‘Kandivi’ is the Uyghur name for this Indica-type cannabis landrace that was once cultivated around the oases and irrigated valleys south of…
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‘Chitrali’ is our name for an accession of a cannabis landrace cultivated in Yarkhun Valley in the high Hindu Kush for dry-sieved charas, seed for food, and bhang…. That’s ‘bhang’ in the sense of leaf and coarse seeded inflorescence…. For…
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The alchemical roots of the sinsemilla technique are one of the many things delved into in a forthcoming podcast episode I just recorded with Jason of Curious About Cannabis. Meantime, if that’s your cup of tea / bhang you can…
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Here’s a c. 1940s shot of a cannabis landrace entitled ‘The Hashish Plant’. The plate is from Egyptian Service: 1902 – 1946 by the British colonial counternarcotics cop Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell, better known as ‘Russell Pasha’. Russell doesn’t specify…
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‘Homa’ or ‘haoma’ is the name used in the Avesta for the plant or substance the Vedas know as ‘Soma’. The most widely accepted candidate for this mysterious ancient Iranian and Indo-Iranian ritual intoxicant – if that’s even what it…
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Tonight is Mahashivratri – the Great Night of Shiva – globally far and away the most stoned day of the year, when many millions of folks in India and Nepal and around the world take part in celebrations in which…
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