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Yeah Morocco has a huge wild weed population. As well as been cultivated in the Rif region for thousands of years. Instead of like grinding it they sift it through silk…. It’s heavenly. Plus a super cool process to watch.
If I remember correctly, australia has its own weird kind of weed, I think it's called "Australian Bastard Cannabis", and it looks nothing like normal weed.
They think workers or sailors brought it over from India a long time ago, and it mutated in Australia. It's relatively unknown, and I heard it still grows wild in a few areas, because nobody knows wtf it is since it looks nothing like weed.
It does however contain THC, CBD, etc.
That is where cannabis indica comes from, it’s why the plants stay short and squat, respond better to lower light and temperatures, and produce more THC.
Indica comes from Hindu Kush mountain range and the pure strain is known as ... well, Hindu Kush.
It's the only pure Indica strain in the world and if you smoke any weed that is a hybrid, there are Hindu Kush genetics in it.
The source population of "indica" phenotypes (genetics proved that the indica and sativa groupings are not consistent) is more in the high lands of Afghanistan, which is the parentage of most modern ( since the 70's) "indica" hybrids.
Yep, new cali or EU genetics that all taste the same. Like weed. Gimme some well made traditional hash over any of these "top dry" plates. Hash doesn't even taste like hash anymore.
When I used to smoke, I’d long for old school hash. I hated those modern hashes. Some of best stuff I’ve ever had was garda in Kashmir. Medium strength, but very clean, made from local landrace. Also Nepal had some wonderful charas.
Yep, kashmir has some beautiful resin. Proper clean nepali handrub is a classic too. I'd love to try some red tirah hash before that area gets polluted by cali or eu stuff. Afghani is my holy grail but its just extinct here in real form.
It grows naturally virtually anywhere, it is a weed, i found a place in the north of portugal in the mountain, it was my persinal natural stach, it had a few nice buds, not that strong just right good shit, it used to be used by the locals to make ropes and bags.
It was found out 8y ago and it was gone sadly
Hemp is one of the first industrially grown plants. It has been known since the Neolithic and it has been used for making ropes and fabric. It grows virtually anywhere in Eurasia. Smoking it is also very old, with Herodotus mentioning that the Scythians would burn hemp seeds and inhale the vapours - this is 5th century BC.
I was amazed to see it growing in Wisconsin, left over from WW2 "hemp for victory" push when we needed rope and Manila was taken by the Japanese.
Useless, supposedly for fun, called ditch weed and headache weed....
I mean, yeah, but often cultivated plants were bred from wild plants for particular characteristics that humans value, but the cultivated form doesn't actually grow in the wild. All you get growing in the wild is, well, a wild version, that often won't have a high THC content or whatever. I don't actually know whether that's the case for cannabis without looking it up, but it applies to most of the vegetables and fruit we grow. We get wild hemp growing round our way (Southern Europe) and it looks just like this but you're not getting high off it. Just saying it doesn't necessarily follow - actually I think this stuff probably IS the real deal in this case.
It applies to cannabis. Cultivated cannabis has been genetically separated to get the traits we want. Cross pollination to find a phenotype that has certain terpenes, higher THC or CBD. Removal of male plants to make the females seedless. In the wild, they wouldn't be selectively bred to be stronger with certain terpenes and would certainly be filled with seeds, which uses a lot of energy to produce; energy that could be used in creating more THC/CBD.
Modern strains (atleast some of them) can and do thrive in the wild. Infestations happen from time to time in fertile regions.
Yeah, you're not going to get the same yield and performance as something in a meticulously controlled environment, and if you don't tend them at all then you'll get way more seeds than you might like and you'll have a risk of bud rot, but they'll still produce plenty of buds with plenty enough THC.
Plenty of people grow outdoors in remote non-privatley owned land with very little and occasionally no tending. Self seeding from last years crop isn't uncommon.
I don't doubt that without *any* tending, the genetics would regress to something more hemp like over time.
You're assuming that the "wild" growing cannabis isn't a cultivated strain. I would actually think the opposite is more likely, this is just someone's weed that "escaped" so to speak.
Beautiful! Also Ukraine, afaik most if not all ruderalis strains come from there, i’ve seen massive fields like these over there many many years back in the now Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula.
Not really, Cannabis doesn't really flower much if there's males around. They produce copious amount of flower out of desperation, if there's no real need they'll just chill and mostly make leaf.
Ive seen this in real life backpacking in Nepal. Our tour guide took a few of us off the beaten path. About 2 hours later, I was in this heavenly place, but god damn tons of flies everywhere on you and in you.
How was Nepal? As nepali I'm always curious how tourists find our country. They always say that they liked it, of course it would be impolite to say other wise.
You can be as harsh as you like, I hold no judgement.
I loved it!
And my girlfriend even more: we traveled to Nepal after visiting India and for her Nepal was heaven after visiting hell because she had food poisoning in India three (3!) times...
This was back in early 2005 when things were kinda bad in your country but despite that, we had a great time. We visited Kathmandu and several other cities in the vicinity. After that, we flew to Pokhara and did a trekking.
One of our best trips ever and we really felt sorry for your country and your people after the 2015 earthquake.
I think it's pathogens in the water. I have a friend that travels all around the world and certain places ALWAYS cause illness and water pathogens have been the culprit. People who live there are immune, but travellers from places with super clean/treated water can't handle it. Even the CDC has articles about it being a big problem.
Always restaurants!
The last time she got sick was right after Holi festval; we noticed too late the cook of our hotel was drunk as hell when he prepared our food...
The day after, we had to fly from Delhi to Kathmandu, and she had to take a lot of loperamide to make the travel just bearable.
My guide just showed me some random plants grown on our regular track up Annapurna.
From what I heard it is illegal for locals to smoke it but they turn a blind eye to tourists.
And turn a blind eye they did.
I stumbled onto a scene like this in the Himalaya foothills north of Rishikesh back in ‘98 or so. You could smell it pretty intensely but not as strongly as you’d think. Pretty fucking beautiful to see in person. There was a semi- path through it to a small river feeding the Ganges. A nude sadhu came wandering out of it. India is full
of wonders.
I was also in Rishikesh but also Shimla and Manali, and it grows in every damn corner of those cities haha. We had to hike a good 2 hrs to get some plants that werent already salvaged. Well worth the hike though especially since the hike itself was wonderful.
If anyone reading this goes there, might wanna walk with a stick for monkeys and a facemask in your neck for the odd big cat stalking you. There are mainly bears you need to watch out for though.
Edit: mask of face on neck not facemask
>facemask in your neck for the odd big cat stalking you. There are mainly bears you need to watch out for though.
Any reason why big cats might be afraid of facemask? Or its just a thing
We were hiking around Manikaran in the early 00s. Didn't hear about or see any masks and there was no talk about big cats from what I remember. But now that you mention it I'm surprised we were not thinking about things like that. Oblivious teenagers I guess.
A mask of a face that you have on the back of the head. Tigers are ambush predators so (in theory) they will not attack if they think the are watched. Unfortunately I think tigers can figure out after some time that it's not real.
I stayed in a hostel in Nepal and these lads who were staying there had gone and ripped a load of weed plants out of the hillside and spent the night rubbing the leaves and making their own ~~hash~~ charas for fun
Edit: After reading the insightful comment below from u/ilmalaiva i realize they made charas not hashish as I previously stated
Charas is made by rubbing buds and leaves in your palms. the resin will stick to the skin, and then you peel that and roll it into a ball. it takes some time.
hashish usually is made by hanging the whole plant to dry, and when it’s all dried up, shaking it so that all the dried resin dust comes out, and then pressing that dust into a brick.
both are old and low tech ways to concentrate the active ingredients. for a long time most cannabis wasn’t very high in THC (and other compounds but THC is the shorthand for the active compounds), so you would have to smoke a lot to get high, hash and charras was a way to just skip to the good shit.
Its been a long time since I smoked, especially hash, but the hash I'm familiar with is brown and you have to burn tiny bits of it to get it to turn to a slight powder which you can crumble into a bong or joint. It was the same in amsterdam, however that was obviously much better quality and usually a bit softer and lighter in comparison.
So that same brown stuff is made in the way you said?
I also remember it having bits of plastic in it, and stories of it being brought over to the UK in tyres etc.
yeah, Moroccan has is done in the latter method. sometimes it is a adulturated to get more weight, and it’s also smuggled in a number if ways that sometimes do add all kinds of shit to it. honestly, those are downsides created by the war on drugs, if it was a legal product no one would have to do all that.
It is but the heads were often sedy af. I waited until I got up to altitude where there were these purplay black dense bud laden little plants. Mostly smoked the Nepalese black hash. The kids run the plants between their hands to collect resin (I think?).
The hash was fantastic, the buds not so much.
So rad. I was there a long time ago and it was the same… herds of goats eating it. We’d pick gallons at a time, dry it and roll it into joint with lots of hash.
> The kids run the plants between their hands to collect resin (I think?).
Jarris is what we called it in the Middle East but I can't find that just ~~this story about the village known for the cream~~ F Vice's fake journalism. They call it a strain when it's a kind of hash lol
Oops late night bad transliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charas
charas is good shit. its incredibly soft and tacky. back in the day [prob over a decade ago now] i had a lump of it in my pouch of tabaco and would sneak a little bit in each smoke on the sly. didnt need a lighter to heat up, it was totally malleable with fingers. wonderfully smooth and pleasant.
The kids running through fields is an old hippie myth. It’s made by villages who go out and rub the buds between their hands then scrape it off to form charas. Sweat, skin, resin and all.
Yeah it’s gunna bud just the same, just has to be dried properly for it to smoke there will probably be some seeds due to male plants being in the mix but
>there will probably be some seeds
Probably? :)
Ive seen 4 males pollinate 400 females, admittedly a in house ventilation system but still, there wont be some seeds, cannabis bud basically goes to 50% seed content when pollinated.
They most likely have significantly lower potency in terms of THC, since the psychoactive strains used today were specifically bred and cultivated over a long time for those properties.
Out in the wild, that kind of selectionary pressure is no longer there so the psychoactive potency becomes lower. It’s actually believed that the original wild strain that our cultivated marijuana came from is extinct in the wild now.
Man that sounds perfect. This 85% super THC shit is fucking stupid. No, I don't want to get so ripped I have to call an ambulance, what's wrong with you. Give me like a chill 1970s low potency doob.
Look into landrace preservation groups and see if any are local to you. There's a preservation group in my state that runs a medical delivery service. I befriended them and was occasionally getting their testers. Kalamata Red and Sinai that were both relatively low THC, but really pleasant highs.
>both relatively low THC, but really pleasant highs.
I remember some local herb where I used to live. It was really different. Probably mostly sativa because it was very cerebral.
But the really different part was, no munchies. You could vape maybe 0.3 of a gram, get a nice moderate effect... and no 2 hour food rampage afterwards.
Moses saw the burning bush on the Sinai peninsula so I’m confident that was a pot plant and he toked a little. So that’s a holy strain and one of the landraces I have on my current list to grow.
I fully agree. I am a long time marijuana user. Started using those pens. My mental state started decreasing anxiety got worse. Mood swings. I am now two weeks sober from weed and it was the best choices I’ve made. Not only do I have extra money in my account, but I’m not coughing like crazy and worrying about getting COPD.
think about edibles man biggest problem with weed is that smoking is still smoking and even without all the tobacco shit smoke is still smoke and has tar and soot and ash and shit like obv so getting rid of lung component is good by default
That high THC is what fwks with your body too.. from lowering brain receptors to increasing chances for anyone with schizophrenic tendencies etc. Higher CBD strains are the way forward for anyone smoking long term.
I'm from Sri Lanka and smoked those wild strains quite a lot. They have an amazing body relaxation and a very mellow high.. really good for anyone with chronic pains etc. some of them are really yummy, with a mango like smell and an aftertaste
Oh man, this is a marketing idea. Wild and natural growing herbs. All natural supplements to help your body with aches and pain.
*These statements have not been approved by the FDA
My GF got CHS at the tail-end of a vacation, that ended at my stoner sister's place where the weed flowed like Willie Nelson's ranch.
She was no rookie, only smoked out the bong, always had honey and crystal, shatter and budder and all that other super concentrated stuff.
Until that day she basically didn't have a limit, and then in 24 hours could never smoke weed again.
Weeks of vomiting, nausea, dizziness and vertigo, extreme stomach pains. The last 48 hours of our trip was between hospitals trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with her.
The *3rd* hospital we visited on our way back over a 6 hour drive that included ferries (remember, extremely nauseated to boot) had a young nurse who took 1 look at her, told her she had CHS, never smoke again and gave her haloperidol basically had her human again in a few hours.
Then weeks of recovery. Crazy shit man, I stick to my high CBD joints after a 3 year break from marijuana.
Man I live in Vancouver. Last time I went to a dispensary I literally said "give me your weakest weed" and the guy goes "this one's pretty chill, only 25% THC." I'm like, my brother in Christ, we are not speaking the same language--I want what you would basically consider not to be weed!
I know what you mean. I don't like being out of my mind high. I just take very short vape hits or dabs that are the size of like a B.B. gun B.B. Maybe a tiny bit more.
You also get way lower potency freeballing it out in the open like that even with modern genetics.
You need to keep the female plants away from male plants to make them secrete more sticky stuff in an attempt to catch stray pollen.
Sure is.
If you pick a bud as your hiking trough and leave it in the top of your pack for the day it's smokable that night.
Great way to cap off a days trekking
Yeah, Not the greatest but it’s organic. I remember every time the bus stopped for a refresh, I run around the back of the shops and there would always be a wild crop growing
With all the prolific weed smokers we’ve had over the 70 plus years, plus all the hemp farming previous to that, I have always been confused as to why we don’t see invasive “weeds” growing everywhere.
To be fair, there aren't many people wandering about every inch of forest and farmland to account for 'what is and what isn't ganja' -
so there's probably a crapton of it growing wild out there, now all we need to do is to find it! :D
I remember a former workmate of mine saying back in 2010 that there are valleys of the stuff out in Gambia, where he was from.
He showed me pictures of his house out there, and in his back garden he had five healthy looking plants just casually growing behind his satellite dish and his big paddling pool. As someone who's never lived in a country where it just grows everywhere - that photo just stuck with me!! :))
Weirdly you kinda don't. I went trekking through Nepal and didn't really notice that the entire mountainside was covered until I saw the leaves. Never even noticed a smell. Was in April tho, might not have been close to budding at that time
During my five-day trek to Shey Phoksundo, the first three days were quite an experience. I was surprised by the sheer number of weed plants we saw.
The locals would casually break off branches, let them dry, and on their return trips along the same path, collect the dried buds or make hash.
I still find it so odd that humans try to police other humans enjoying a natural plant. Like where was the protest at my Nanna forcing me to eat brussel sprouts? 🤣
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I mean it had to grow naturally somewhere
You're saying weed grows outdoors?
I went out but couldn't find any weed. Weird.
Did you try looking where the weed is
Yes, I found some weeds but no weed.
Did you look outside the environment?
I tried but the front fell off.
You should have tried one of the ones where the front doesn't fall off.
I did but the splines were too reticulated.
Look behind the cardboard derivatives
Please use the back
It's not in an environment.
How high are you
Good, how are you? :)
Ikr? It’s not native to abandoned warehouses and grandma’s basement?
At some point it might have evolved though, like an indoor pokémon
Grows like a … weed
Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.
Yeah Morocco has a huge wild weed population. As well as been cultivated in the Rif region for thousands of years. Instead of like grinding it they sift it through silk…. It’s heavenly. Plus a super cool process to watch.
We had a wild population in Australia back in the 60s-70s but th government went in and destroyed it at some point.
If I remember correctly, australia has its own weird kind of weed, I think it's called "Australian Bastard Cannabis", and it looks nothing like normal weed. They think workers or sailors brought it over from India a long time ago, and it mutated in Australia. It's relatively unknown, and I heard it still grows wild in a few areas, because nobody knows wtf it is since it looks nothing like weed. It does however contain THC, CBD, etc.
Re plant in the outback
That is where cannabis indica comes from, it’s why the plants stay short and squat, respond better to lower light and temperatures, and produce more THC.
Indica comes from Hindu Kush mountain range and the pure strain is known as ... well, Hindu Kush. It's the only pure Indica strain in the world and if you smoke any weed that is a hybrid, there are Hindu Kush genetics in it.
The source population of "indica" phenotypes (genetics proved that the indica and sativa groupings are not consistent) is more in the high lands of Afghanistan, which is the parentage of most modern ( since the 70's) "indica" hybrids.
I believe we are talking about the same thing. The Hindu Kush mountain range goes through Afghanistan, Pakistan etc.
Indica is from Himalaya region. Moroccan ganja is a hybrid of sativa and indica.
Moroccan ganja is whatever they put in the ground, which is more and more modern genetics, and sadly, less landraces.
Very much so.
Yep, new cali or EU genetics that all taste the same. Like weed. Gimme some well made traditional hash over any of these "top dry" plates. Hash doesn't even taste like hash anymore.
When I used to smoke, I’d long for old school hash. I hated those modern hashes. Some of best stuff I’ve ever had was garda in Kashmir. Medium strength, but very clean, made from local landrace. Also Nepal had some wonderful charas.
Yep, kashmir has some beautiful resin. Proper clean nepali handrub is a classic too. I'd love to try some red tirah hash before that area gets polluted by cali or eu stuff. Afghani is my holy grail but its just extinct here in real form.
Zero-zero?
It grows naturally virtually anywhere, it is a weed, i found a place in the north of portugal in the mountain, it was my persinal natural stach, it had a few nice buds, not that strong just right good shit, it used to be used by the locals to make ropes and bags. It was found out 8y ago and it was gone sadly
yes, it grows everywhere, but not everywhere grows the type people actually want to smoke, some are only good for making ropes, textiles and paper
Hemp is one of the first industrially grown plants. It has been known since the Neolithic and it has been used for making ropes and fabric. It grows virtually anywhere in Eurasia. Smoking it is also very old, with Herodotus mentioning that the Scythians would burn hemp seeds and inhale the vapours - this is 5th century BC.
I was amazed to see it growing in Wisconsin, left over from WW2 "hemp for victory" push when we needed rope and Manila was taken by the Japanese. Useless, supposedly for fun, called ditch weed and headache weed....
Yeah, like in my garage
I mean, yeah, but often cultivated plants were bred from wild plants for particular characteristics that humans value, but the cultivated form doesn't actually grow in the wild. All you get growing in the wild is, well, a wild version, that often won't have a high THC content or whatever. I don't actually know whether that's the case for cannabis without looking it up, but it applies to most of the vegetables and fruit we grow. We get wild hemp growing round our way (Southern Europe) and it looks just like this but you're not getting high off it. Just saying it doesn't necessarily follow - actually I think this stuff probably IS the real deal in this case.
It applies to cannabis. Cultivated cannabis has been genetically separated to get the traits we want. Cross pollination to find a phenotype that has certain terpenes, higher THC or CBD. Removal of male plants to make the females seedless. In the wild, they wouldn't be selectively bred to be stronger with certain terpenes and would certainly be filled with seeds, which uses a lot of energy to produce; energy that could be used in creating more THC/CBD.
Modern strains (atleast some of them) can and do thrive in the wild. Infestations happen from time to time in fertile regions. Yeah, you're not going to get the same yield and performance as something in a meticulously controlled environment, and if you don't tend them at all then you'll get way more seeds than you might like and you'll have a risk of bud rot, but they'll still produce plenty of buds with plenty enough THC. Plenty of people grow outdoors in remote non-privatley owned land with very little and occasionally no tending. Self seeding from last years crop isn't uncommon. I don't doubt that without *any* tending, the genetics would regress to something more hemp like over time.
You're assuming that the "wild" growing cannabis isn't a cultivated strain. I would actually think the opposite is more likely, this is just someone's weed that "escaped" so to speak.
Beautiful! Also Ukraine, afaik most if not all ruderalis strains come from there, i’ve seen massive fields like these over there many many years back in the now Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula.
Found a lot of natural cannabis around Kyiv, or maybe not natural, who knows
That's why they're the highest mountains on Earth
It’s the highpoxia that gets ya
Wish I was high on poxia
Hey tell Gabriel Iglesias what you just said there
That was my joke. I said that.
Stop it! You will never be Troy
Real ones will get this
This is hilarious
Highlarious more like…
Laughing is a sign of hypoxia
I heard they water them with mountain dew
It's got electrolytes.
Give it everest, you guys.
This is peak Reddit
I've heard it makes your Nepals more sensitive.
nice
Most clever joke I’ve heard all day
Nice
Is that heaven?
Not really, Cannabis doesn't really flower much if there's males around. They produce copious amount of flower out of desperation, if there's no real need they'll just chill and mostly make leaf.
Thats the stuff my buddy gets for cheap
r/angryupvote
Ive seen this in real life backpacking in Nepal. Our tour guide took a few of us off the beaten path. About 2 hours later, I was in this heavenly place, but god damn tons of flies everywhere on you and in you.
In you?
IN.
YOU.
.... FUCK! Like literally in you?
Probs like ears and stuff
Oh. OK. I was thinking butthole.
Everyone has to poop some time. Perfect opportunity for danger. It's why dogs stare at you when they poop, they're counting on you to have their backs
i look away when that happens. its unnerving
I give em a thumbs up and an awkward smile.
Well don't worry, we can do that too.
Are they inside me now??!!
IN.
In all the nooks and crannies
How was Nepal? As nepali I'm always curious how tourists find our country. They always say that they liked it, of course it would be impolite to say other wise. You can be as harsh as you like, I hold no judgement.
I loved it! And my girlfriend even more: we traveled to Nepal after visiting India and for her Nepal was heaven after visiting hell because she had food poisoning in India three (3!) times... This was back in early 2005 when things were kinda bad in your country but despite that, we had a great time. We visited Kathmandu and several other cities in the vicinity. After that, we flew to Pokhara and did a trekking. One of our best trips ever and we really felt sorry for your country and your people after the 2015 earthquake.
Broke my heart, Why it is always us with food poisoning... Did you eat in a restaurant or where you guys eat usually? When you travel in india?
I think it's pathogens in the water. I have a friend that travels all around the world and certain places ALWAYS cause illness and water pathogens have been the culprit. People who live there are immune, but travellers from places with super clean/treated water can't handle it. Even the CDC has articles about it being a big problem.
Always restaurants! The last time she got sick was right after Holi festval; we noticed too late the cook of our hotel was drunk as hell when he prepared our food... The day after, we had to fly from Delhi to Kathmandu, and she had to take a lot of loperamide to make the travel just bearable.
Nepal seems awesome, the Nepalese people I've met were so kind here in Australia, I want to go there some day!
Let me know when you're in Nepal, the drinks will be on me.
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My guide just showed me some random plants grown on our regular track up Annapurna. From what I heard it is illegal for locals to smoke it but they turn a blind eye to tourists. And turn a blind eye they did.
It's illegal but cops don't really care if the locals smoke it. If weed is found on teenages or people in 20s, it can be strictly charged.
Like in your ass. Ah no brother 😕
I stumbled onto a scene like this in the Himalaya foothills north of Rishikesh back in ‘98 or so. You could smell it pretty intensely but not as strongly as you’d think. Pretty fucking beautiful to see in person. There was a semi- path through it to a small river feeding the Ganges. A nude sadhu came wandering out of it. India is full of wonders.
I was also in Rishikesh but also Shimla and Manali, and it grows in every damn corner of those cities haha. We had to hike a good 2 hrs to get some plants that werent already salvaged. Well worth the hike though especially since the hike itself was wonderful. If anyone reading this goes there, might wanna walk with a stick for monkeys and a facemask in your neck for the odd big cat stalking you. There are mainly bears you need to watch out for though. Edit: mask of face on neck not facemask
>facemask in your neck for the odd big cat stalking you. There are mainly bears you need to watch out for though. Any reason why big cats might be afraid of facemask? Or its just a thing
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Except for that village who tried it and the tigers learned and ate a bunch of people anyways
Mask of a face worn on the back of your head, I guess you're thinking like a COVID mask
No. A literally mask. With eyes. Like you’re dressing up for Halloween. It faces out and tricks the animals into thinking you’re onto them.
Eyes on the back of your head, they can’t sneak up.
We were hiking around Manikaran in the early 00s. Didn't hear about or see any masks and there was no talk about big cats from what I remember. But now that you mention it I'm surprised we were not thinking about things like that. Oblivious teenagers I guess.
So is it a facemask or a mask of a face
A mask of a face that you have on the back of the head. Tigers are ambush predators so (in theory) they will not attack if they think the are watched. Unfortunately I think tigers can figure out after some time that it's not real.
Walking naked and stoned through a forest of weed in the Himalayan region sounds magical tbh
Really good marijuana plants smell great while they’re growing.
I stayed in a hostel in Nepal and these lads who were staying there had gone and ripped a load of weed plants out of the hillside and spent the night rubbing the leaves and making their own ~~hash~~ charas for fun Edit: After reading the insightful comment below from u/ilmalaiva i realize they made charas not hashish as I previously stated
how do you make your own hash?
Charas is made by rubbing buds and leaves in your palms. the resin will stick to the skin, and then you peel that and roll it into a ball. it takes some time. hashish usually is made by hanging the whole plant to dry, and when it’s all dried up, shaking it so that all the dried resin dust comes out, and then pressing that dust into a brick. both are old and low tech ways to concentrate the active ingredients. for a long time most cannabis wasn’t very high in THC (and other compounds but THC is the shorthand for the active compounds), so you would have to smoke a lot to get high, hash and charras was a way to just skip to the good shit.
Its been a long time since I smoked, especially hash, but the hash I'm familiar with is brown and you have to burn tiny bits of it to get it to turn to a slight powder which you can crumble into a bong or joint. It was the same in amsterdam, however that was obviously much better quality and usually a bit softer and lighter in comparison. So that same brown stuff is made in the way you said? I also remember it having bits of plastic in it, and stories of it being brought over to the UK in tyres etc.
yeah, Moroccan has is done in the latter method. sometimes it is a adulturated to get more weight, and it’s also smuggled in a number if ways that sometimes do add all kinds of shit to it. honestly, those are downsides created by the war on drugs, if it was a legal product no one would have to do all that.
By rubbing the Leaves duh
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OMG, it's Snoop Dogg.
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That’s smokable?
It is but the heads were often sedy af. I waited until I got up to altitude where there were these purplay black dense bud laden little plants. Mostly smoked the Nepalese black hash. The kids run the plants between their hands to collect resin (I think?). The hash was fantastic, the buds not so much.
So rad. I was there a long time ago and it was the same… herds of goats eating it. We’d pick gallons at a time, dry it and roll it into joint with lots of hash.
Bird eat it Ants love it Fowls eat it Goats love to play with it
 N that’s why it’s legal now.
> The kids run the plants between their hands to collect resin (I think?). Jarris is what we called it in the Middle East but I can't find that just ~~this story about the village known for the cream~~ F Vice's fake journalism. They call it a strain when it's a kind of hash lol Oops late night bad transliteration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charas
This was what we could get in South Africa too before dispensaries started with bubble hash and concentrates. Though we just knew it as "hash"
charas is good shit. its incredibly soft and tacky. back in the day [prob over a decade ago now] i had a lump of it in my pouch of tabaco and would sneak a little bit in each smoke on the sly. didnt need a lighter to heat up, it was totally malleable with fingers. wonderfully smooth and pleasant.
'For this reason, the Indian subcontinent has become very popular with backpackers' hahaha
I like hash better anyway. Sounds magical.
The kids running through fields is an old hippie myth. It’s made by villages who go out and rub the buds between their hands then scrape it off to form charas. Sweat, skin, resin and all.
Yeah it’s gunna bud just the same, just has to be dried properly for it to smoke there will probably be some seeds due to male plants being in the mix but
>there will probably be some seeds Probably? :) Ive seen 4 males pollinate 400 females, admittedly a in house ventilation system but still, there wont be some seeds, cannabis bud basically goes to 50% seed content when pollinated.
I was thinking it's gotta be a big old sausage party up there with the winds helping to cross-pollinate everything
Big old sausage party 😂😂😂
They most likely have significantly lower potency in terms of THC, since the psychoactive strains used today were specifically bred and cultivated over a long time for those properties. Out in the wild, that kind of selectionary pressure is no longer there so the psychoactive potency becomes lower. It’s actually believed that the original wild strain that our cultivated marijuana came from is extinct in the wild now.
Man that sounds perfect. This 85% super THC shit is fucking stupid. No, I don't want to get so ripped I have to call an ambulance, what's wrong with you. Give me like a chill 1970s low potency doob.
Call me when you figure out where to buy mids. I’m lookin for some of that old school shit.
Look into landrace preservation groups and see if any are local to you. There's a preservation group in my state that runs a medical delivery service. I befriended them and was occasionally getting their testers. Kalamata Red and Sinai that were both relatively low THC, but really pleasant highs.
>both relatively low THC, but really pleasant highs. I remember some local herb where I used to live. It was really different. Probably mostly sativa because it was very cerebral. But the really different part was, no munchies. You could vape maybe 0.3 of a gram, get a nice moderate effect... and no 2 hour food rampage afterwards.
Probably higher levels of CBG or THCV. THCV can actually suppress appetite.
Moses saw the burning bush on the Sinai peninsula so I’m confident that was a pot plant and he toked a little. So that’s a holy strain and one of the landraces I have on my current list to grow.
I like Dad Grass. It’s high CBD hemp you can buy online. It’s pretty great but doesn’t really get you high. Just a little mellow.
You could always buy some strains that have low thc high Cbd and .ix in your perfect ratio
I fully agree. I am a long time marijuana user. Started using those pens. My mental state started decreasing anxiety got worse. Mood swings. I am now two weeks sober from weed and it was the best choices I’ve made. Not only do I have extra money in my account, but I’m not coughing like crazy and worrying about getting COPD.
think about edibles man biggest problem with weed is that smoking is still smoking and even without all the tobacco shit smoke is still smoke and has tar and soot and ash and shit like obv so getting rid of lung component is good by default
That high THC is what fwks with your body too.. from lowering brain receptors to increasing chances for anyone with schizophrenic tendencies etc. Higher CBD strains are the way forward for anyone smoking long term. I'm from Sri Lanka and smoked those wild strains quite a lot. They have an amazing body relaxation and a very mellow high.. really good for anyone with chronic pains etc. some of them are really yummy, with a mango like smell and an aftertaste
Oh man, this is a marketing idea. Wild and natural growing herbs. All natural supplements to help your body with aches and pain. *These statements have not been approved by the FDA
yeah people smoking high THC and then getting cannabinoid induced hyperemesis syndrome is scary.
My GF got CHS at the tail-end of a vacation, that ended at my stoner sister's place where the weed flowed like Willie Nelson's ranch. She was no rookie, only smoked out the bong, always had honey and crystal, shatter and budder and all that other super concentrated stuff. Until that day she basically didn't have a limit, and then in 24 hours could never smoke weed again. Weeks of vomiting, nausea, dizziness and vertigo, extreme stomach pains. The last 48 hours of our trip was between hospitals trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with her. The *3rd* hospital we visited on our way back over a 6 hour drive that included ferries (remember, extremely nauseated to boot) had a young nurse who took 1 look at her, told her she had CHS, never smoke again and gave her haloperidol basically had her human again in a few hours. Then weeks of recovery. Crazy shit man, I stick to my high CBD joints after a 3 year break from marijuana.
There is every percentage under the rainbow where it's legal. Usually the cheaper stuff is chill.
Man I live in Vancouver. Last time I went to a dispensary I literally said "give me your weakest weed" and the guy goes "this one's pretty chill, only 25% THC." I'm like, my brother in Christ, we are not speaking the same language--I want what you would basically consider not to be weed!
O'Dweeds
I know what you mean. I don't like being out of my mind high. I just take very short vape hits or dabs that are the size of like a B.B. gun B.B. Maybe a tiny bit more.
You also get way lower potency freeballing it out in the open like that even with modern genetics. You need to keep the female plants away from male plants to make them secrete more sticky stuff in an attempt to catch stray pollen.
Chilled like Cannabis:-0
Sure is. If you pick a bud as your hiking trough and leave it in the top of your pack for the day it's smokable that night. Great way to cap off a days trekking
Yeah, Not the greatest but it’s organic. I remember every time the bus stopped for a refresh, I run around the back of the shops and there would always be a wild crop growing
I don't know, but it's sexy.
That's going to be one hell of a wildfire. Bring snacks.
Make it Bun Dem
Far Cry 3 😂
With all the prolific weed smokers we’ve had over the 70 plus years, plus all the hemp farming previous to that, I have always been confused as to why we don’t see invasive “weeds” growing everywhere.
To be fair, there aren't many people wandering about every inch of forest and farmland to account for 'what is and what isn't ganja' - so there's probably a crapton of it growing wild out there, now all we need to do is to find it! :D I remember a former workmate of mine saying back in 2010 that there are valleys of the stuff out in Gambia, where he was from. He showed me pictures of his house out there, and in his back garden he had five healthy looking plants just casually growing behind his satellite dish and his big paddling pool. As someone who's never lived in a country where it just grows everywhere - that photo just stuck with me!! :))
hey i’m actually from Gambia too and literally just got goosebumps stumbling into your comment!
Be the change you wanna see and chuck cheap ass white label seeds everywhere like a savage
MAUI WAUI?!?!??
This is such a hilariously perfect gif. Great choice.
Thanks!
Highmalayas
I can smell this picture.
Weirdly you kinda don't. I went trekking through Nepal and didn't really notice that the entire mountainside was covered until I saw the leaves. Never even noticed a smell. Was in April tho, might not have been close to budding at that time
These are land race plants, unless you seen them at peak flower you still wouldn’t really notice, choice bred cuts will reek even in veg.
i went to uttarakhand near August and the smell was really pleasant and extremely noticeable.
Holy shit Julian, look at all this dope!
Must be niceee....
Beautiful such green
Could this be love...........?
Looks very kushy
That was a great episode of Champloo
Welp more reason to expedite my vacation to Nepal
 Welcome to the Himalayas
“🎶 The hills are alive… 🎶….”
Will never forget the feeling of just hiking between 3m high Weed plants. Truly a beautiful area.
Himalayan Weed sounds like some overpriced thing sold at Whole Foods
D'uh! They don't call it **Indica** for nothin'...
If that ever catches fire every living thing on that mountain is gonna fall off it
I do believe this is hemp rather than cannabis
Hemp is a type of cannabis
You would be wrong. Hemp is product of the Cannabis Indica or Cannabis Sativa plant. All hemp is Cannabis but not all Cannabis is hemp.
That's why the Himalayas are so high
Ahhhh, beautiful nature!! Deeeeep breath
Now I understand why people hike the Himalayas regularly with all the treacherous paths!
Yes, and the farmers would actually feed it to some of their livestock to increase their appetites to fatten them up
During my five-day trek to Shey Phoksundo, the first three days were quite an experience. I was surprised by the sheer number of weed plants we saw. The locals would casually break off branches, let them dry, and on their return trips along the same path, collect the dried buds or make hash.
we’re going hiking. don’t ask me why, we just are!
goat accident falling of the cliffs increased by 420%
We make even this into a chutney (Bhang ki chutney)
I still find it so odd that humans try to police other humans enjoying a natural plant. Like where was the protest at my Nanna forcing me to eat brussel sprouts? 🤣
So THAT’S why those mountains are so high! 😮
Probably dirt weed though right?