Here’s part three, in which Conor and I roam across further cannabis-rich terrain, wherein we encounter – The rebellious cannabis-fuelled mystic warrior brotherhoods of Persianate Islam (ayyars, javanmards, or futuvvat) Anarchist qalandar dervishes, the original hashish fiends par excellence How…
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Here’s the second part of three of the podcast episode I recorded with Conor on Cannabis & Alchemy. As always when rambling like this, there are a fair few inaccurate or misleading things I said that need clarifying here. For…
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The first of three parts of the Cannabis & Alchemy podcast episode I recorded with Conor of CANNAMANtv is now up on YouTube. This is the first time in which I feature as a friendly animated cannabis seed, but as…
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The 2019 accession from the Khorasan region of Iran and the genbank Syrian landrace are both back in stock. The Syrian is a lovely plant, early maturing, with great aromas. The Iranian is a big-yielder and while we can’t be…
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The ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in the Ānandakanda, a c. 15th Century work most likely composed at Srisailam, southeast India. Shown is Matsyendranāth, one of the semi-legendary Nine Nāths listed in the Ānandakanda. Siddhas – meaning Tantric adepts…
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There is a far older word for seedless bud than ‘sinsemilla’, namely ‘ganja’. The so-called ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in Sanskrit some time from the 12th through 16th Centuries in a vast alchemical compendium named the Ānandakanda (आनन्दकन्द)…
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The cannabis crop, cannabis-fibre clothes, shawls, and shoes, as well as braided or dreadlocked hair were all cultural markers of the Pahari people of the alpine ranges of the Himalaya – the ‘Pahar’. Today, multipurpose cannabis landraces still are and…
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The new Chitrali accession has tested well. Seeds are showing a high germination rate and vigorous seedlings. Shown is a plant from the 2014 Chitrali accession, customer photo, collected by Angus. The highest region of the Hindu Kush, Chitral lies…
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New landrace accessions direct from Nepal – sourced during the harvest of Winter 2021: Dolpa – Far West Nepal, Multipurpose Jumla – Far West Nepal, Multipurpose Dakshinkali – Central Nepal, ‘Mountain Ganja’ Kathmandu Valley – Central Nepal, Multipurpose Dolpa and…
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Only one… There’s never been any real debate about this. Essentially, on one side of the Cannabis species question there’s all the people who get taxonomy: the botanists, universities, authoritative floras, botanical gardens, and – last but not least –…
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