Keep in mind that if it wasn't because humans, cannabis would probably have never left Central Asia.
So indeed all the cannabis populations around the world were taken and maintained by men (except those truly ancestral and the escaped feral populations, like the ditchweed in USA for example).
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It was geographic isolation and the men (together with soil and climatic characteristics of course) what made them to evolve to certain charateristics, not nature. Keep in mind that if it wasn't because humans, cannabis would probably have never left Central Asia. So more than wild landraces, they should be considered different regional domestic cultivars or ecotypes of Cannabis.
Are you implying that no wild cannabis is growing in thailand? I am pretty sure that is incorrect. I have a line that was directly acquired in the wild.
Sample populations of 157 Cannabis accessions of diverse geographic origin were surveyed for allozyme variation at 17 gene loci. The frequencies of 52 alleles were subjected to principal components analysis. A scatter plot revealed two major groups of accessions. The sativa gene pool includes fiber/seed landraces from Europe, Asia Minor, and Central Asia, and ruderal populations from Eastern Europe. The indica gene pool includes fiber/seed landraces from eastern Asia, narrow-leafleted drug strains from southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America, wide-leafleted drug strains from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and feral populations from India and Nepal. A third putative gene pool includes ruderal populations from Central Asia. None of the previous taxonomic concepts that were tested adequately circumscribe the sativa and indica gene pools. A polytypic concept of Cannabis is proposed, which recognizes three species, C. sativa, C. indica and C. ruderalis, and seven putative taxa.
The old heirloom thai cultivars were indeed ancestral or heirloom domestic cannabis crops introduced and rudimentarily bred by the men and evolved from their Himalayan/Indian or Chinese original genetic ancestors, not wild thai landraces indeed, something that probably never existed. This should also work for any Mexican, Colombian, Jamaican, Ethiopian, Indonesian or whichever ancient traditional strain according to what we know in the present.
It is always presumed that man was less sophisticated hundreds, thousands, or 10 thousand years ago, until we repeatedly find out that they actually were highly skilled and sophisticated.
When the flowers form, an important personage arrives on the scene: the poddar, or parakdar, the “ganja doctor”. His job is to chop down all of the male plants in the field
In the beginning of January the hemp begins to flower, and from this time onward the cultivator is on the outlook for those abnormal male flowers on his female plants which the poddar could not possibly have foretold. Harvesting begins to be general about the middle of February and is all over by the middle of March.
The discovery that the earlier in the season the male plants were rejected, the more resin the others formed, would naturally follow. And finally, the practice of throwing out the males because they are in themselves worthless would reach the stage which it has attained in the gánjá mahals, where their discovery even before they have flowered, and their complete elimination because of their effect on the other sex, has become an art.
So indeed all the cannabis populations around the world were taken and maintained by men (except those truly ancestral and the escaped feral populations, like the ditchweed in USA for example).
No the ditchweed is escapees from the war effort. Before the big hemp farms there was no feral cannabis in the US.
No the ditchweed is escapees from the war effort. Before the big hemp farms there was no feral cannabis in the US.
I asked if you were implying not stating that you were implying; don't get defensive. I'm not believing I told you I have proof of plants collected from populations not sustained by man. Your last post contributed nothing but animosity to the thread.Are you implying that no wild cannabis is growing in thailand? I am pretty sure that is incorrect. I have a line that was directly acquired in the wild.
I'm not implying, I'm asking..which is different from what you are doing which is believing if that is what you mean by "pretty sure".
The same here only mine was acquired from the wild not in the wild
"in the wild" or "from the wild" Please explain what that means? ...anyway, has anyone actually seen any plants in Thailand that a human didn't plant?
Wild ganja is common in many parts of Pakistan, India and Nepal.....there's no reason why the same doesn't occur in Thailand or Laos, maybe there is some growing by itself on some creek banks, it's just that I never saw or heard of it and I spent most of the 80's there.