Do ‘Landrace Farmers’ Need Modern Hybrid Strains?
Finally, prominent icons from the world of pot are starting to talk about landrace preservation. To date, the biggest corporate foray into the landrace realm has been the now-infamous Strain […]
Finally, prominent icons from the world of pot are starting to talk about landrace preservation. To date, the biggest corporate foray into the landrace realm has been the now-infamous Strain […]
Old friends of ours in Chitral are organising food aid to the hardest-hit households along Yarkhun and other valleys. Jason has made a page at Curious About Cannabis where you can donate. […]
Hybridization is the main cause of extinction and biodiversity loss in Cannabis. Indigenous Asian populations hold the vast majority of Cannabis biodiversity. For “drug-type” Cannabis (aka, subsp. indica) that particularly […]
The new Curious About Cannabis episode with Jason and Angus on endangered landraces and wild-type populations of subsp. indica is out! Get access to an exclusive extended 2.5 hour version […]
Among the earliest evidence of Cannabis cultivation are finds of domesticated pollen from sites on the Western Steppe associated with the Yamnaya culture (3300–2600 BCE). Recent studies indicate the Yamnaya […]
According to Genesys, of some 1400 Cannabis accessions in global genebanks, as few as five are of subsp. indica. Let that sink in… ‘A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa […]
[NOTE: A week or so before I posted this to the blog, John McPartland and Ernest Small’s new taxonomy for Cannabis was published, so although much here is still pertinent […]
The full deep dive into landraces with the excellent Jason of Curious About Cannabis is now up at Youtube. NOTE: In passing, I inadvertently misrepresent the Schultes taxonomy as it […]
The full near-3-hour chat Angus had with Jason for the Curious About Cannabis podcast is now out on Stitcher, Spotify, and wherever else you get your podcasts. Landraces were what […]
A Brief Tour of Internet Bullshit About Cannabis Landraces was the working title for this post. You get the idea. So, let’s start from the top of Google Page 1. […]