‘Gañjā’ in the Ānandakanda, a compendium on alchemy from c. 15th Century India and arguably the first text in history to describe – or at very least strongly imply – the ‘sinsemilla technique’ for producing potent, resinous seedless bud (gañjā)….
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Balkhi ‘first garda’, 2007 primo unpressed north Afghan resin from beyond Mazar-i-Sharif… The massive scale of the 2006 and 2007 cannabis harvests in northern Afghanistan saw unprecedented availability of the highest grades of Afghan charas everywhere from Amsterdam and Berlin…
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Here’s the full photo of ‘Kandivi’, the Indica-type landrace collected by Frank Meyer in the winter of 1910 in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and shown here at a USDA research station in Nevada in 1913. As noted in a USDA bulletin…
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Afghanistan, 1971 – left is the legendary Harvard ethnobotanist, Richard Evans Schultes; but who can name the gent pictured right? Even Schultes’ most ardent acolyte is on record to avow that his guru acted in bad faith during those pivotal…
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Here’s a very stoned photo of some Kashmiri garda charas c. 2008 – because seeds of a Kashmiri landrace are now available. Kashmiri cannabis earned a legendary reputation among westerners during the heyday of the Hippie Trail, mostly for various…
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‘Ukhrul (Naga)’ at 40°N – a customer’s photo from last year, this individual performing well at such a northern latitude. Collected by Angus in the highlands of Ukhrul district, Manipur, Northeast India, close to the border with Burma. This landrace…
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The photo above is a lower branch of a Lao / ‘Thai Stick’ ganja landrace collected by Angus c. 2012 and pushed well into senescence indoors by a customer. Strong aromas such as musk, tobacco, dark chocolate, and overripe fruit…
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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, however region-specific most may be, landraces are exactly the opposite of ‘wild’ or ‘natural’. Landraces…
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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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