Thanks, Mengsk - I enjoyed both of those links.
I consider cannabis to be integral to my own religious path and self-realization; I imagine that’s not uncommon. I liken it to Castaneda’s sense of plant allies. Cannabis has been a true ally and teacher to me, ever since I got out of the stoner-comedy phase.
I can say confidently that I’m a better, more grounded, more creative man than I would have been had I not gone this way. I’ve absolutely been a better father than had I followed in my father’s footsteps (father and child agree). I have had amazing friendships with amazing people that have lasted generations and have been enriched in so many ways that I never saw my dad get to experience, and had I let them slot me into the machine I would be much poorer, if more wealthy, and I’d hate myself pretty awful by now, because none of that would have happened. Other things would have, it’s true, but I’m glad I came the way I did.
Quite true, Elmer, and fair enough: however, I have found the notion of the plant ally to be functionally accurate for me where cannabis is concerned, and I imagine that some may feel the same about ayahuasca. Even a fraud can say something real....G `day WB
Sorry to break it to you bro Castaneda was a hoaxer .
The plants and animals he described don`t live and grow in the region he said he studied in .
Also who the fck smokes mushrooms ? They smoke toad venom ...
Thanks for sharin
EB
Its just that Problem here:
I dont know what to do:
1: Breeding Science doesent anwser me Questions, if we might be able to select better strains out of some remains of the Landraces.. Atleast my excursion into Breedingscience didnt made me wanna read further into it.
2. People who once was there when Ganja was quiet good (Smokers, Plant Researchers) have no overview how this actually happend, was it human breeding-selection, or was it Natures work.
3. Researcher nowdays doesent get ahold of good materiel nomore, atleast in halfe of the regions where landraces remain, nor do they often make exact comarisons with ganja of the good old times (70s) , describe,compare it.
That leads to following unsolved yet Situations:
1: Cause of no Report of how it came that we once had strong Landraces, we dont know if we can start it again. Probably it was just selection of the best, like often assumed, but never studied.. We may do it again from ground up, but we dont know
2: Again, would anyone have an insight, a Story surviving, about how this happend, if it happend ( cause if it was nature, then there might be no Story)
3: Would we know how Landraces today differ in Apperance, look, we could go on a hunt and look out, even the current new Hunters wich wouldnt have known the old strong Landraces of the 70s, but i have no idea what to look for.
This 3 Things could Help, but i dont find any of These Solutions, so the Thing i choose is phylosofing about Breeding, even i have not much knowledge. Thats the only Thing that remains for me. I may find something out.. But the Option of going for a hunt isnt really attractive, also cause like told already nobody can describe me what to look for.. It would make me muuch more willing to do so. Cause then i could atleast visualize this races, and when there, i could just use this Info to select offers on the street, reject 90 procent already. But without that it seems i would have to smoke 90 procent more, and with that be in 90 procent bigger Trouble, not so fun in these often harsch laws .. I basically would have to dig in hay, risking my freedom.. Im not complaing, just dooing something. I conclude, cause i didnt find so much substential info. Yeah again, we might also do this from ground up with science, but i have yet to find a study about landraces, also of Food-Plants. There is still a way, especially with science there might be an way to an endless source of strong landraces..
And i dont speak for columbian weed wich might remain in better Condition, i speak of all Landrace, like the legendary Thai weed, the insane Vietnamese, the wonderful mexican, the hawaian, you Name it
And shure something is still left.. Some older lines inbreed... Thats cool, but this also might find an end in Inbreeding-Mutation on the Long run.. How many do you Need to official preserve a single strain forever in open poll. ? 20000 plants... hahaha, ok with small plants multiplicated to a square field, its not thaaat much
Thanx sam
I Also saw in the Strainhunters series that there were some Farmers in Africa wich actually said they do Selection.. They didnt say how, or it was the wise mans wich did it , not the young ones wich told about it. But they said they do something and its not just open pollination atleast there. What Episode was it Strainhuntes in malawi if remember right.
I Heard to, that the Gems wich are strong are made by man. I dont doubt nor do i just belive, atleast as there are not so many people telling the same or that there is a certain indice for that.
Did you actually assume that the Cbd content in Afghani cannabis, wich you said comes trough Selection of rather fields than individual plants is the Sign for a certain Wild Trait left over? Its the common view wild plants containing mostly cbd.
IN AFGHANISTAN THEY SAVE THE SEEDS OF ANY PLANT WITH LOTS OF RESIN BUT BECAUSE THEY DO NOT SMOKE INDIVIDUAL PLANTS THEY HAVE NO IDEA IF THE RESIN IS THC OR CBD THEY JUST HAVE LOTS OF RESIN. AFTER YEARS OF DOING THIS THEY GET A THC/CBD PROFILE, IF YOU TEST GROW IMPORTED CANNABIS SEEDS FROM AFGHANISTAN YOU FIND 25% HIGH IN THC, 25% HIGH IN CBD, AND 50% HIGH IN THC/CBD. I HAVE IMPORTED MANY SEED POPULATIONS FROM AFGHANISTAN AND THAT IS WHAT I FIND WHEN I GROW AND TEST THEM.
-SamS
But in the end i want a report of your Ideas, wich surely seems hard to get. The only ones wich could provide that indice are the wise man in local Villages telling and giving Indices, like per example they grow remotely and there was no interferance with wild Pollen. Or modern tecnique like Genetic analysis coupled with mapping of old material could provide Indices, or is that possible with dead material..?
I want Indices. So long i keep phylosophing.
Is still a bit funny to think its only man (not launghable but strange to turn out to be man). Atleast the Gems seem to accure only local, not on a global trade by Hybisizing (in my view, i like tripweed). It may be the last solution to outcross, yes, but not the perfect.. Also i have strong indices that the Tripweed sample i smoked was a vietnamese Hemp plant , or a wild one. One or the other, it was just labeled Hemp from the collector and not found in human Garden , more by walking by. Could be a Escapist still, could also be wild natures work science in vietnam there is many wild cannabis. Also the halfway vietnamese Strain Black Forest from Kindong organic is said to be wild plant found in Jungle. Bouth have goooood strong reports.
That makes me still wonder if Nature can do the same.
It would actually be a easier task. But is it mans work, then we would need to do 2 things, not one: first let Nature perform a Renaturalisation to purify Plants again, and secound we need to select them like they once did to get the Gems.
Otherwise we only would need the Denatuarlisation. Sience my own Experience pointed thowards some wild breeds, i still tend to this theory. But probably these wild samples are rather the closesst Representatives of the old Manselections, cause they may be escapists, open pollinating..
I want more indices, evenn just pics wich show plants in a scenerie. Could help to determine what caused it (The Scenerie would do that helping). Coupled with short Smokedescriprtion would help