‘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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There’s a new meme going round among cannabis aficionados which involves variations on a theme of “You can’t use ‘strain’ to refer to Cannabis or any other plants because the term ‘strain’ is only for viruses.” As with so much…
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Lucas has a new photographic piece that expands on his adventures in the Hindu Kush and northern Afghanistan, which – if you haven’t already – you can follow in his new illustrated edition of Afghanistan: Fortress of Cannabis and his…
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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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Order any strain in any quantity and you will automatically receive 17 extra seeds: 12 Nanda Devi #2 + 5 Afghan Mix Nanda Devi #2 is a traditional Kumaoni Himalayan multipurpose domesticate for seed, fibre, and charas. Afghan Mix consists…
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Here’s Lucas chatting with Conor on CANNAMANtv about his book Afghanistan: Fortress of Cannabis and his winter 2018 adventure in Afghanistan – when he collected the accession named ‘Tashkurgan’. Created with the selfless help and hospitality of Afghan tokers, this…
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Representing the wild-type relatives of Indicas, the var. asperrima type specimen is from seed collected by the great Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov on 1920s plant hunting expeditions through centres of Central Asian charas production such as Bukhara, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang…
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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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Afghanistan: Fortress of Cannabis – a wonderful photography book by Lucas Strazzeri that documents his winter 2018 journey through Balkh Province – is now available in hardcover or e-book. Lucas and I first met in 2007 in Peshawar, when I…
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