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heres what i know. i will update this thread as i learn more and invite others to do the same.
this first post is on another site, as follows, so as to gather and spread more information.
Banja (bon-ja) was an early African word for cannabis ganja a direct variation. There was an articular i read about an ancient buried person found, thought to be a shaman or play a similar role in it's culture i think it was male over 3000 years old with cannabis still easily identifiable among the things in the burial. fast forward to tobacco.1500s having discovered that the native americans smoked dabs of tobacco in small bowls and ceremonial pipes the Spanish brought tobacco back to Europe where it was cultivated for increased nicotine while European innovators crafted smaller more practical pipes with much larger bowls to smoke it.
i wonder about the history of cannabis. i suspect much of the ancient knowledge of it was burned. this is posted here because history is science and i am interested in the development of cannabis through culture which is largely anthropology and i am interested in the other sciences at play that led to the bonja being 30 to 100 times stronger.
obviusly there is breeding and selecting for potency which was done through out time and esp, in India and china(over what period??).and at some point something happened in Europe, weed got 10 times as potent over a span of 30 years. i have heard that there was stronger street bud in Harlem usa before cannabis prohibition and the drug companies had very potent strains as well that disappeared from the legal as well as the black market when prohibition hit. but i have not independently confirmed that last part. still Europe and the usa may have been where the increase in potency from 1950s to 1980s .
Thats all i got for now. i will be researching the subject and invite you readers to as well. Anyone who has good info on this please post.
Peace
this first post is on another site, as follows, so as to gather and spread more information.
Banja (bon-ja) was an early African word for cannabis ganja a direct variation. There was an articular i read about an ancient buried person found, thought to be a shaman or play a similar role in it's culture i think it was male over 3000 years old with cannabis still easily identifiable among the things in the burial. fast forward to tobacco.1500s having discovered that the native americans smoked dabs of tobacco in small bowls and ceremonial pipes the Spanish brought tobacco back to Europe where it was cultivated for increased nicotine while European innovators crafted smaller more practical pipes with much larger bowls to smoke it.
i wonder about the history of cannabis. i suspect much of the ancient knowledge of it was burned. this is posted here because history is science and i am interested in the development of cannabis through culture which is largely anthropology and i am interested in the other sciences at play that led to the bonja being 30 to 100 times stronger.
obviusly there is breeding and selecting for potency which was done through out time and esp, in India and china(over what period??).and at some point something happened in Europe, weed got 10 times as potent over a span of 30 years. i have heard that there was stronger street bud in Harlem usa before cannabis prohibition and the drug companies had very potent strains as well that disappeared from the legal as well as the black market when prohibition hit. but i have not independently confirmed that last part. still Europe and the usa may have been where the increase in potency from 1950s to 1980s .
Thats all i got for now. i will be researching the subject and invite you readers to as well. Anyone who has good info on this please post.
Peace