Angus talks landraces on The Adam Dunn Show
The interview starts around 2 hours in, which was 7:30 am my time—an early start. But we managed to cover the Hindu Kush, Himalaya, Thailand, and Laos in an hour. […]
Category Archives: cannabis
Landraces: Myth-Busting Wild Cannabis and Traditional Strains
Oh dear…. I just had a look at the first pages of Google for ‘cannabis landraces’. What an apocalyptic tidal wave of nonsense. Landraces are getting hit by as much […]
Further Stoned Ramblings on Charas
A couple of responses to the recent post about charas have objected that it’s unreasonably harsh on Clarke and Merlin or even misrepresents what they wrote. So I’ve made a […]
Charas or Hashish? The Straight Dope on Old-School Cannabis Resin
Charas! What is it? Where does it come from? Ask most Western experts and aficionados and the answer you’ll get is that it’s hand-rubbed Cannabis resin from the Indian and […]
Nanda Devi: Landraces and Tall Tales from the Himalayas
Bullshitting about cannabis has a long and inglorious tradition. It’s a particular problem among Westerners—not just prohibitionists in the mould of Harry Anslinger or Richard Nixon but also enthusiasts with […]
10 Quick Questions with The Real Seed Company
In the first of a brand new series of articles, Seedsman sat down with Angus from The Real Seed Company to ask him 10 quick questions about his seedbank. 1. […]
BBC journalist never tried Thai ganja, feeds ‘skunk’ hysteria
David Shukman of the BBC claims that “The weed so familiar to many of my generation was characterised by a relatively balanced amount of THC and CBD” when compared to […]
Won’t you please think of the Vietnamese slave children? (Part 2)
Slavery has a ‘shocking presence in modern Britain’, says Theresa May. But the hundreds of slave children locked inside Britain’s prohibition ‘skunk farms’ still go unseen and unheard. “It is […]
Won’t you please think of the Vietnamese slave children? (Part 1)
Cannabis is a human rights issue. Has the reform movement forgotten? Campaigners should ask themselves if the ‘medical route’ to legalisation is a dead end. Back in November 1997, enthusiastic […]
Is the whole problem really the blacks?
It’s past time for Britain’s Labour opposition to get its act together about cannabis. If you’re black and going about your day in England and Wales you’re 6.3 times more […]
The Real Seed Company: The Honest Online Source for Cannabis Landraces Est. 2007 