There Are No Scythian Bongs
New on cannabis and the Scythians: Those Scythian Bongs Don’t Exist
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Smoking A Chillum – Nepal
Smoking *tobacco* in a chillum, Nepal… ‘Exotic’ Asian person smoking an exotic pipe must mean it’s cannabis or opium in the bowl… is an assumption best dropped… This lady from Jumla, Midwest Nepal was smoking coarse locally grown tobacco, and…
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Seed Compost (Yes) Vs Paper Towel (No)
Bad germination techniques are rife among cannabis growers, especially folks working indoors. Damping Off is a problem when germinating any species of plant indoors. But cannabis originated on the arid and windy desert steppe of Central Asia so is particularly…
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How To Become A Legendary Cannabis Breeder
One of these Cannabis farmers is screwing up big time. The other is a renowned breeder. Right now, ‘Cannabusiness’ is a case study in the tragicomic consequences of not knowing the difference between good and bad information. Call it an…
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Shipments – Easter Break
Wednesday 13th April will be the last day of shipments from the site before folks take a well-earned break to catch up with family. The next shipments will go out on Friday 22nd April. The featured image shows a Nepali…
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Cigarettes and Asanas
A naga baba performs the cigarette asana…. Tobacco arrived in India in the early 1600s with European merchants and rapidly catalyzed a widespread new popular culture of smoking cannabis. Only at the end of the 1700s do Indian paintings begin…
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How to Help Ukraine & Ukrainians
You can give direct to Ukrainian humanitarian aid agencies and the Ukrainian Army here or here or here For evidence-based perspectives on Ukraine you can trust – honest and objectively verifiable – check out this featuring HIV/Aids specialist Chris Beyrer:
‘Thai Stick’ or ‘Lao Stick’?
Export ganja fields, Bolikhamsai, Central Laos – crop eradication by the Lao PDR army, who burned about 100 hectares this week, a pointless symbolic gesture that achieved little more than perhaps to increase wholesale prices. * Bolikhamsai is one of…
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Does Cannabis Come from China?
Belief that “Cannabis comes from China” has rapidly taken root among pot aficionados and the wider public since a new PRC genomics study on the origin of Cannabis. Plants and seeds are increasingly getting coopted by ethnonationalist autocracies to confer…
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What’s in a Bong?
Hits from the bong, Tai – yes, Tai – style… ‘Bong’ is a word of Lao and Thai origin – from a length of bamboo pipe – but despite mostly getting used for cannabis in the West, in Southeast Asia…
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