High Grade Vintage Cannabis photography

[nepalnt21]

Inside a Greek coffeeshop early 20th century before actually 1906

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i must be high, i'm seein' faces on those faces!

 

[mexcurandero420]

Pot bust low 1930s

 

[Cannaben123]

Few recent eBay finds. I ran up the bids but didn’t win sadly. Photos are from the mid to late 90s. Is 25 / 30 years vintage? In plant years it’s gotta be

 

[wh1p3dm34t]

vint = 20 so this thread should be actually called retro or oldtimer or historical or something else

 

[FellaAndrene]

There are 2841 different samples catalogued in the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections database: https://sernecportal.org/portal/collections/list.php?usethes=1&taxa=3175

"Bro, I swear, bro. My uncle legit left me some seeds of the true 1881 Sour Diesel."

 

[FellaAndrene]

Some things of special interest that are found there are the specimens Karl Hillig had analyzed for his speciation studies.

This individual is from the G13 line he got from Nevil:

Mel Frank's Afghani #1 (Balkh, Afghanistan IBL) via HortaPharm a.k.a. Sam Skunkman:

Thai 'Sakon Nakhon' a.k.a. Hang Suea (Tiger Tail) - this also came from Hortapharm:

Accession codes can be found from this 2005 paper: Genetic Evidence for Speciation in Cannabis (Cannabaceae)

 

[FellaAndrene]

A few of the Angolan samples in the collections of the Arquivo Científico Tropical.

Malanje, 1903:

Cazengo, Cuanza Norte, 1914:

Cuíto, Bié, 1931:

Ganda, Benguela, 1962:

 

[Hasch]

in the collections of the Arquivo Científico Tropical.

Do they have any seeds stored?

With modern cell culture technology maybe there are some miracles possible...

 

[FellaAndrene]

Do they have any seeds stored?

With modern cell culture technology maybe there are some miracles possible...

Many of those herbarium specimens have seeded buds at least. And the samples are (or they should be) held in climate-controlled conditions.

They probably have a collection of seeds somewhere too, just not catalogued officially.

Many of the museums of natural history do have seeds. Your local ones probably do too. If your country was a (dirty) colonizing power, it's even more probable.

One of our local museums have some hundred year old seeds from India, kept in a glass container - those were obtained through a pharmaceutical research laboratory, so you know it's medical grade ganja:

Speaking of ganja - here's some Assam ganja from the year 1884, kept in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, Netherlands):

Another one:

Some South African dagga, too (from the year 1959):

And held in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - some pre-Soviet Afghan - collected from Baharak, Badakhshan province, North-East Afghanistan, 1965:

And as you can see, those last two samples were misidentified initially - they were updated, and moved from C. ruderalis to C. sativa. subsp. indica in 1977.

Nowadays these would be classified as C. sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica.

And now C. ruderalis is Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa var. spontanea, the wild-type European hemp (according to McPartland & Small, 2020).

 

[PoweredByLove]

Just bumping so I can remember to read this later

 

[Brother Nature]

Last couple pages have been pretty cool, love this thread.

 

[Farmer John]

It is a great thread. Loved the last few pages.

 

[ilovegrowing]

Found this one, but dont know anything about it. Imo looks like the 60/70. the plants growth and budding is kinda unique. This guy took good care of the plant

Any guesses for genetics? (The plant not the guy) haha (i guess haze/indica hybrid)

 

[toltschok]

Chisapani/Nepal Spring 1996
That was the welcome gift when we arrived in the village with our guide. It was free. At that time, it was the largest amount of Weed that my friend and I had ever seen. The small plant that grows there,is in the village square, where the men sit in the evenings and enjoy the beautiful view.

The nice lady asked us for a cigarette and watched with amusement as we smoked weed in a dug hole. Does anyone else know that kind of smoking weed? Basically, we smoked a mountain pipe, the whole Himalayas actually.In the last picture you can see the effect of good Himalayan weed. Being stupid, young and stoned, we didn't take any seeds with us. We had two weeks to smoke everything, it was Fun,kinda like a Hotbox, we didn't leave the hotel room, but we managed it.

 

[mexcurandero420]

Gabriel Eugenio Parra Pizarro ( Valparaíso , Chile; July 25, 1947 - Palpa , Peru; April 15, 1988)

 

[Farmer John]

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Found this one, but dont know anything about it. Imo looks like the 60/70. the plants growth and budding is kinda unique. This guy took good care of the plant

Any guesses for genetics? (The plant not the guy) haha (i guess haze/indica hybrid)

Now thats a handsome plant.

 

[bajode5]

Gabriel Eugenio Parra Pizarro ( Valparaíso , Chile; July 25, 1947 - Palpa , Peru; April 15, 1988)

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One of the greatest drummers in the 70-80's.
Volaos como ellos sólos.

 

[Raco]

 

[mexcurandero420]

 

[FellaAndrene]

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The guy in the lab coat must be Dr. Carlton Turner, who was head of the Marijuana Research program at the University of Mississippi 1970-1981.

In 1981, he became the Director of Drug Abuse Policy (under President Reagan) - America's top drug czar:

All his letters during that time period are archieved here: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/research/finding-aids/turner-carlton-e-files-1981-1987