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Thanks for the link to the "Arizona oldschool" thread Madjag and thanks for the magazines FOE20
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High Grade Vintage Cannabis photography
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Hey madjag, I was looking at the first page of the thread and in the 3rd picture 4 seasons posted you can see in the small print that they have a pic of Arizona canyon weed. Its covered by some big buds and a ruler.
Is that you? Pretty cool either way
Is that you? Pretty cool either way
Magnificent stuff guys, thanks for all these 'special' posts. First thread I check every time I log on!Nvm it will just be deleted.
mapleleafgrower
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Who keeps deleting jessethestoner's posts? I don't understand what he's doing wrong. We can't even mention scribd now?
I thought icmag was relaxing a little
I thought icmag was relaxing a little
kewl Raco...yea I figured it was a for a good reason..I like these old rags but it aint worth loosing the site over...heh...
I have the Hashish book vol.1 #1 if you guys want a bit of that posted..
and I did just tracked down the Great book of Cannabis..for under $100..
but damn the other vol's of those Hash books is nuts..100-$200+ a pop...
Im not gana scan in full mags either...But as said I'll post up the really juicy stuff,,....keep it rollin
FOE20
I have the Hashish book vol.1 #1 if you guys want a bit of that posted..
and I did just tracked down the Great book of Cannabis..for under $100..
but damn the other vol's of those Hash books is nuts..100-$200+ a pop...
Im not gana scan in full mags either...But as said I'll post up the really juicy stuff,,....keep it rollin
FOE20
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Goodkarma
I've been looking around eBay and the like for some old magazines and I've found a few but none for a group price.
Does anyone know a place where you'd get a deal or something if you bought say 10 or 20 magazines?
Does anyone know a place where you'd get a deal or something if you bought say 10 or 20 magazines?
From India Papers.Medical History of British India 
( 4 )
3. Gánjá consists of the dried flowering-tops of cultivated female hemp
plants which have become coated with resin in consequence of having been
unable to set seeds freely. The formation of seeds is prevented by the destruction of all the male plants. Special men—poddars—who profess ability to recognise the sexes long before the plants are mature, go round a field three or
perhaps four times during a season, selecting what they say are male plants;
any that escape notice during the earlier visits are detected at a subsequent one.
How these men distinguish the plants I cannot say; I have not yet had opportunities of seeing them at work. The remarkable thing is that the work
is well done, for though the cultivators also go daily round their fields
looking for male flowers, it would appear that they rarely find a male plant
which has been overlooked; they not infrequently do, however, find female plants
with a few abnormal flower spikes, or sometimes a whole branch, bearing only
male flowers ; less often, and still more difficult to notice, they find plants on
which one or two of the flowers on a spike are males, the rest being females.
Even when fully grown the plants that bear such flowers are, in habit and
general appearance, exactly like the other females ; it is not therefore
surprising that, even if the poddar is the expert he claims to be, these should
escape detection. Indeed, the fact that some of these abnormal plants do
escape notice—often up to the time when the plants are being reaped—while by
no chance is a normal male plant to be found in a field, seems to show that the
poddar is able to distinguish the sexes before the flowers begin to appear.
The care with which male plants are removed has already been incidentally
evidenced by Mr. C. B. Clarke who, speaking of the cultivation at Naogaon,
says :—" In these cultivated fields I could find no male plants at all ; every
plant of some thousands must have been female." In the case of a field of 1
about a bigha in extent, which early in the season had passed out of the owner's
care, and which consequently had not received the two latest, and one would
imagine most necessary, visits by the poddar, a. careful examination was made
by me to test the point. From the calculations accepted in the gánjá office and
given in Mr. Kerr's Report,this field, if well cultivated, should have contained 2
nearly 2,500 plants; allowing for the losses caused by inattention, it must still
have contained from 1,800—2,000 plants. Yet the whole field did not contain
a single male plant, and only one abnormal female plant with some male flowers
on it was found. The evidence is not of course conclusive as to the efficiency
of the poddar' s earlier visits, for the cultivators of neighbouring fields may
have searched for any males contained in this one and uprooted such as
they happened to find. But as they do not attempt to destroy the males which
spring up spontaneously throughout the gánjá tract on way sides and in wasteplaces, situations where the plant is very common and in which the sexes occur
in about equal numbers, it is unlikely that they had done so. During my visits
to the gánjá mahals I did not succeed in finding a single normal male plant in
any field ; the number of abnormal female plants with a few male flowers varied
somewhat. They were never common, three plants of the kind in a field of about
a bigha and a quarter being the largest number found in one field. As many
as twenty fields were searched on one occasion without finding a single plant
of the kind.
Careful, however, as the cultivators are in removing male plants, it is
impossible to find a single female, excepting those that are khásiá and functionally defective, that has no ripe fruits. One noticeable feature in connection
with this is that it is always the flowers of a particular situation that first set
seeds. Besides the flowers that are borne, four or five of them in line, on short
spikes that spring from the branches of the flowering-top, there are always at or
near the bases of these spikes, single flowers springing immediately from the
branches. These flowers, which are thus the most completely hidden of all
in the flowering-top, are the ones that open soonest and are the ones that are
fertilized in all gánjá plants and that ripen seeds even when none of the others
succeed in doing so. The number of fruits formed, however, is usually very
small as compared with the total number of flowers on each plant. There is of
course nothing very surprising in the fact that seeds do get set, for though it is
not too much to say that probably not a single male plant is left in any field
p. 8. Report, H. C. Kerr, Letter quoted by 1
( 5 )
in the whole gánjá mahal, there is no attempt made to uproot the wild male
plants to be found growing everywhere in fences and ditches. Besides which
there are the abnormal male flowers on female plants for which the poddar
cannot be held responsible, some of which escape the notice of the cultivator
himself throughout the season ; these are undoubtedly functionally perfect,
and may easily account for the presence of seeds. That these abnormal males
are mainly accountable for the seeds that occur seems probable from two
circumstances. One of these, which has been pointed out by Mr. Kerr,is that 1
seeds are often more numerous in fields where the owner has been ailing and
unable to look after his crop by going round and removing the abnormal
male flowers that make their appearance on female plants. I am not able
to corroborate this observation, for even in the field already spoken of, which
had received no attention for half the season, there were not more than an
average number of seeds. This, however, does not contradict Mr. Kerr's
experience: for, as has been said, only one plant with abnormal male flowers
was found in the whole field.
The other circumstance is the presence, in very considerable numbers, in
every field, of functionless female plants, perhaps indicating fertilization by
abnormal pollen, capable of causing an embryo to develope into a seed that
will not only germinate, but produce a plant apparently perfect but incapable of
reproduction; the presence of these abnormal males themselves may indicate the
same thing. It must, however, be admitted that the want of function in a
certain number of females may be only due to the unnatural conditions, resulting
from high cultivation, under which they grow. The fact that, so far as all
vegetative functions are concerned, these khásiá plants are unusually well
developed, points rather in this direction.
It may be mentioned in passing that the cultivator, looking at the plant
entirely in its resin-bearing aspect, considers the sex that produces this substance
the nobler of the two and calls it m ardá or male ; the worse than useless male,
which if left would fertilize his field and ruin his crop, is to him mádi, or
female ; the useless but innocent kh ásiá, which he does not remove from the
field while young or reap when mature, is, as its name indicates, collated with
the sex to which it really belongs. The misapplication of the sexual names
is not surprising ; it prevailed in Europe three centuries ago. 2 What, however,
is surprising among people who are able to distinguish the sexes before the
flowers appear, is that they have not attempted to distinguish between the seeds
that will produce male and those that will produce female flowers. It has
been said in Europe, though without being confirmed, that the seeds which
produce male plants are longer, thicker and heavier than those that yield female
plants, which are distinctly lighter and of a more rounded or oval shape. 3
The following table shows the relationship of the three substances to the
hemp plant and to each other :—
TABLE I.—Relationship of the Hemp Narcotics.
The hemp
plant
(Cannabis
satica L
) produces
in tropical countries
generally in both wild and cultivated
plants
resin diffused throughout the
leaves, which are therefore collected, and constitute
Siddhi.
in India
in the female only and
under cultivation, the male
having to be destroyed,
resin as an exudation on the
flowering-tops which are therefore collected, and constitute
Gánjá .
in certain temperate countries
in both sexes, but more par-
ticularly the female, and
most markedly in cultivated
plants, though the males are
not destroyed,
resin as an exudation on upper
leaves and female floweringtops, which is collected as
Charas.
CHAPTER III.—SIDDHI, OR BHANG.
Siddhi consists of the leaves of the hemp plant collected while green and
then dried. They are evidently collected in some cases with more care than in
others, because in some samples only leaves are to be found, while in others
1 H. C. Kerr, Report, p. 18.
2 Dalechamp ; Historia Generalis Plantarum, p. 497 (1587), figures as Cannabis mas the sex that bears
the seeds and as Cannabrs fœmina the one with flowers that to him appeared " inutiles et vanescentes."
3 Autenreith, Disquisitio de diserim. Sex. pp. 13, 15 ; how far there is any truth in the statement it is
( 4 )
3. Gánjá consists of the dried flowering-tops of cultivated female hemp
plants which have become coated with resin in consequence of having been
unable to set seeds freely. The formation of seeds is prevented by the destruction of all the male plants. Special men—poddars—who profess ability to recognise the sexes long before the plants are mature, go round a field three or
perhaps four times during a season, selecting what they say are male plants;
any that escape notice during the earlier visits are detected at a subsequent one.
How these men distinguish the plants I cannot say; I have not yet had opportunities of seeing them at work. The remarkable thing is that the work
is well done, for though the cultivators also go daily round their fields
looking for male flowers, it would appear that they rarely find a male plant
which has been overlooked; they not infrequently do, however, find female plants
with a few abnormal flower spikes, or sometimes a whole branch, bearing only
male flowers ; less often, and still more difficult to notice, they find plants on
which one or two of the flowers on a spike are males, the rest being females.
Even when fully grown the plants that bear such flowers are, in habit and
general appearance, exactly like the other females ; it is not therefore
surprising that, even if the poddar is the expert he claims to be, these should
escape detection. Indeed, the fact that some of these abnormal plants do
escape notice—often up to the time when the plants are being reaped—while by
no chance is a normal male plant to be found in a field, seems to show that the
poddar is able to distinguish the sexes before the flowers begin to appear.
The care with which male plants are removed has already been incidentally
evidenced by Mr. C. B. Clarke who, speaking of the cultivation at Naogaon,
says :—" In these cultivated fields I could find no male plants at all ; every
plant of some thousands must have been female." In the case of a field of 1
about a bigha in extent, which early in the season had passed out of the owner's
care, and which consequently had not received the two latest, and one would
imagine most necessary, visits by the poddar, a. careful examination was made
by me to test the point. From the calculations accepted in the gánjá office and
given in Mr. Kerr's Report,this field, if well cultivated, should have contained 2
nearly 2,500 plants; allowing for the losses caused by inattention, it must still
have contained from 1,800—2,000 plants. Yet the whole field did not contain
a single male plant, and only one abnormal female plant with some male flowers
on it was found. The evidence is not of course conclusive as to the efficiency
of the poddar' s earlier visits, for the cultivators of neighbouring fields may
have searched for any males contained in this one and uprooted such as
they happened to find. But as they do not attempt to destroy the males which
spring up spontaneously throughout the gánjá tract on way sides and in wasteplaces, situations where the plant is very common and in which the sexes occur
in about equal numbers, it is unlikely that they had done so. During my visits
to the gánjá mahals I did not succeed in finding a single normal male plant in
any field ; the number of abnormal female plants with a few male flowers varied
somewhat. They were never common, three plants of the kind in a field of about
a bigha and a quarter being the largest number found in one field. As many
as twenty fields were searched on one occasion without finding a single plant
of the kind.
Careful, however, as the cultivators are in removing male plants, it is
impossible to find a single female, excepting those that are khásiá and functionally defective, that has no ripe fruits. One noticeable feature in connection
with this is that it is always the flowers of a particular situation that first set
seeds. Besides the flowers that are borne, four or five of them in line, on short
spikes that spring from the branches of the flowering-top, there are always at or
near the bases of these spikes, single flowers springing immediately from the
branches. These flowers, which are thus the most completely hidden of all
in the flowering-top, are the ones that open soonest and are the ones that are
fertilized in all gánjá plants and that ripen seeds even when none of the others
succeed in doing so. The number of fruits formed, however, is usually very
small as compared with the total number of flowers on each plant. There is of
course nothing very surprising in the fact that seeds do get set, for though it is
not too much to say that probably not a single male plant is left in any field
p. 8. Report, H. C. Kerr, Letter quoted by 1
( 5 )
in the whole gánjá mahal, there is no attempt made to uproot the wild male
plants to be found growing everywhere in fences and ditches. Besides which
there are the abnormal male flowers on female plants for which the poddar
cannot be held responsible, some of which escape the notice of the cultivator
himself throughout the season ; these are undoubtedly functionally perfect,
and may easily account for the presence of seeds. That these abnormal males
are mainly accountable for the seeds that occur seems probable from two
circumstances. One of these, which has been pointed out by Mr. Kerr,is that 1
seeds are often more numerous in fields where the owner has been ailing and
unable to look after his crop by going round and removing the abnormal
male flowers that make their appearance on female plants. I am not able
to corroborate this observation, for even in the field already spoken of, which
had received no attention for half the season, there were not more than an
average number of seeds. This, however, does not contradict Mr. Kerr's
experience: for, as has been said, only one plant with abnormal male flowers
was found in the whole field.
The other circumstance is the presence, in very considerable numbers, in
every field, of functionless female plants, perhaps indicating fertilization by
abnormal pollen, capable of causing an embryo to develope into a seed that
will not only germinate, but produce a plant apparently perfect but incapable of
reproduction; the presence of these abnormal males themselves may indicate the
same thing. It must, however, be admitted that the want of function in a
certain number of females may be only due to the unnatural conditions, resulting
from high cultivation, under which they grow. The fact that, so far as all
vegetative functions are concerned, these khásiá plants are unusually well
developed, points rather in this direction.
It may be mentioned in passing that the cultivator, looking at the plant
entirely in its resin-bearing aspect, considers the sex that produces this substance
the nobler of the two and calls it m ardá or male ; the worse than useless male,
which if left would fertilize his field and ruin his crop, is to him mádi, or
female ; the useless but innocent kh ásiá, which he does not remove from the
field while young or reap when mature, is, as its name indicates, collated with
the sex to which it really belongs. The misapplication of the sexual names
is not surprising ; it prevailed in Europe three centuries ago. 2 What, however,
is surprising among people who are able to distinguish the sexes before the
flowers appear, is that they have not attempted to distinguish between the seeds
that will produce male and those that will produce female flowers. It has
been said in Europe, though without being confirmed, that the seeds which
produce male plants are longer, thicker and heavier than those that yield female
plants, which are distinctly lighter and of a more rounded or oval shape. 3
The following table shows the relationship of the three substances to the
hemp plant and to each other :—
TABLE I.—Relationship of the Hemp Narcotics.
The hemp
plant
(Cannabis
satica L
) produces
in tropical countries
generally in both wild and cultivated
plants
resin diffused throughout the
leaves, which are therefore collected, and constitute
Siddhi.
in India
in the female only and
under cultivation, the male
having to be destroyed,
resin as an exudation on the
flowering-tops which are therefore collected, and constitute
Gánjá .
in certain temperate countries
in both sexes, but more par-
ticularly the female, and
most markedly in cultivated
plants, though the males are
not destroyed,
resin as an exudation on upper
leaves and female floweringtops, which is collected as
Charas.
CHAPTER III.—SIDDHI, OR BHANG.
Siddhi consists of the leaves of the hemp plant collected while green and
then dried. They are evidently collected in some cases with more care than in
others, because in some samples only leaves are to be found, while in others
1 H. C. Kerr, Report, p. 18.
2 Dalechamp ; Historia Generalis Plantarum, p. 497 (1587), figures as Cannabis mas the sex that bears
the seeds and as Cannabrs fœmina the one with flowers that to him appeared " inutiles et vanescentes."
3 Autenreith, Disquisitio de diserim. Sex. pp. 13, 15 ; how far there is any truth in the statement it is
Richards farm in Michigan
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Keep on growing
Very nice pics Esbe 
Found another one of the heirloom hemp photos
Is anyone experimenting with seeds of feral hemp??
Keep on growing
Found another one of the heirloom hemp photos
Is anyone experimenting with seeds of feral hemp??
Keep on growing
