CUBAN STRAINS

[DUBADAY]

Anybody have Cuban genetics in the garden? I am trying to find any Cuban ibl's
if they even exist.

 

[zamalito]

Cuban cannabis is a pretty interesting subject. Sadly the long lasting current crackdown on drugs in Cuba today has made the legal price price very high if one is caught growing. I read in a High Times article that the average smoker will pay an entire weeks salary for the equivelent of an eighth of mexican schwag. This high prices would make you think that some people have to be growing their own personal. However, I assume that growers are so few and far between that many are growing bagseeds from imported schwag. Cuba at one point did export cannabis to the united states. A decent percentage of what was being imported into New Orleans and Florida during the early Jazz age was Cuban. Cuba is very well known for its diverse microclimates typically take advantage of for tobacco growing allowing the wrapper, filler and binder tobaccos to be produced on the island. I would think this could be also advantageous to cannabis production.

 

[zamalito]

There is a strain I've heard of called Cohiba named after the cigar company that's supposedly from Cuba. Adding to the confusion there's also a commercial Paraguaian/Brazilian strain of the same which is thus named because of its cigarlike aroma and chocolate brown color.

 

[Raco]

AF (a wealthy one ) scored some herb in Cuba,circa 2000.He told me it was very good and it´s called "España en llamas"(flames ).I wonder if it was puntorrojo,according to his description:reddish with yellow golden leaves

 

[muddy waters]

man Fidel could really lighten up, light one up--has anyone ever asked him since he admires the Yankee drug prohibition so much, why not let el imperio handle the routine in Cuba as well? Cuba is backyard backyard, the Andes are a different hemisphere away and we do it for them. Guantanamo is even big enough for a couple cropdusters and swat team residence, I bet.

I don't know anything about Cuban strains and I had never heard that one about the jazz era. Interesting. Cuba is majority African descended too, I don't know where their slaves came from though in particular. I am also ignorant about Cuban colonial and social history before Batista, did they grow hemp there at any point?

 

[zamalito]

The Spanish introduced hemp into Cuba in the late 1700's just like they did in the rest of their colonies in the new world. I don't have any reference as to how well it took but in 1952 it was one of the main textiles produced.

Most of Spain's slaves came from west african regions which hadnt yet started growing cannabis either from Spain's own colonies or purchased from British slave traders. Spain did buy significant numbers of African slaves so I guess it is possible that a significant number were purchased from Portugal whose slaves did come from regions of Africa where cannabis was used.

 

[muddy waters]

I was also unaware that cannabis arrived in West Africa later than southern Africa. For some reason I always thought the vector for the spread of cannabis into Africa was Islamic missionaries, refugees, and traders. Sinai-Egypt-Ethiopia, and across the Sahara, to Ghana by the 9th century. The empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai adopted Islam and came before and during the colonial and slave epochs. I'm very curious from when you date different African regions having cannabis actually.

It's a different thread but it'd be a trip to try to historically chart the flow of cannabis from the Himalayan foothills to everywhere it is now.