Ecologically destructive practices and mistaken views about the climate emergency are rife among the Cannabis tribe, and frankly that’s on all our heads. Ceaseless extolling of the very real virtues of hemp has meant too little awareness that most commercial…
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None other than Bob Marley himself explained to High Times about ‘Lamb’s bread’ and what this name really means. Bob Marley: One time I was in Jamaica, was doin’ a show, an’ a man come up to me, and he…
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Crucial conversations being started here by Steve DeAngelo on Radio Free Cannabis I’ve written a bit on related issues such as the Cannabis biodiversity crisis and the catastrophic consequences of introducing hybrids to traditional regions of cultivation such as Nepal…
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Here’s John McPartland discussing the likely origin of Cannabis and how he arrived at the conclusion it’s probably northeastern Tibet, i.e. Amdo / Qinghai:
Here’s the original landrace ramble I recorded with the most excellent Jason of ‘Curious About Cannabis‘. The origins of hashish, the sacramental cannabis culture of the qalandars, expeditions in Afghanistan, and the ancient diffusion of cultivation out of Central Asia…
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The unchecked spread of modern hybrid strains out of the West is in no one’s interest, least of all farmers in traditional regions of cultivation and Cannabis biodiversity. A new post is up at the main blog looking at how…
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Behold, a master a work! Check out ‘Charas or Hashish?’ for more on the qalandars and the history of charas. Photo from Balkh Province, Afghanistan 2018 by Lucas Strazzeri.
Authoritative information on Cannabis can be hard to come by. One place you very seldom find it is on Internet grow forums or social media. Good books and peer-reviewed scientific studies should always be the first place you look. Cannabis:…
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In remote areas of Asia such as the Chitrali Hindu Kush, rural communities are being hit hard by Covid-19. Lockdown has pushed many Chitrali families to the edge. Most are small-scale subsistence farmers. Their breadwinners are usually ‘daily wagers’, which…
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Hybridization is the main cause of extinction and biodiversity loss in Cannabis. Here’s an important and freely available ecological study by Judith Rhymer and Daniel Simberloff, Extinction by Hybridization and Introgression. A key focus of the paper is loss of…
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