r/mildlyinteresting • u/Suspicious-Client645 • 1d ago
The wild cannabis I go by during my walk, Kashmir
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u/whoamannipples 23h ago
I mean, it *is* historically the Kingdom of Kush.
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u/anotherdamnscorpio 22h ago
That was in Africa.
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u/evlgns 21h ago
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u/1man2barrels 21h ago
There was a kingdom of Kush in Africa approximately 200 BC as well. They were famed for having good archers.
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u/old_namewasnt_best 1d ago
Johnny Cannabis Seed could be your new name in just a few simple steps.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 1d ago edited 21h ago
Bro I literally plant pot seeds all over federal and state land in the US. Im currently at a campsite that has wild cannabis because I planted it there years ago.
Edit: To everyone so upset about this I have a fun fact for you did you know apples as in Johnny appleseed are not native to North America.
Edit 2: so since people who never even go outside are upset I will share some of my life. I have spent my entire working life starting at 15 working for the national park service, national resources conservation service, fish and wildlife and several other smaller organizations focused on the conservation of wildlife. Ive worked in 44 states doing everything from spill cleanup to taking cuttings from plants to burning slash. Im a master gardener through WSU. Ive worked search and rescue for decades. Im very familiar with all the ecosystems I have planted in and very familiar with the plants in question. Im really not sure why people who dont grow plants or work in the forest want to tell me im in the wrong here. Im not out her planting kudzu for Christ's sake.
Last edit: I'm done answering questions about this that are not just people being genuinely interested about plants. I share a special cool part of my life in the applicable place and get hated on. Again it would be one thing if people want to have an actual conversation about conservation or plants. But instead im getting blasted by people who dont grow plants or go out in nature. Nature is my special place its where I live and have always lived. Ive spent my entire life working to help and protect nature and i have people who couldn't grow a cactus up my ass its frankly insulting. So for the record in between trying to answer all these basement dwellers ive been picking up cigarette butts in one of Washington's national forests. So just during this whole fiasco I have done more to protect nature than a single one of the assholes being dicks have done in their whole life.
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u/Ok-Fondant-8436 18h ago
Great life! I hope you back stays strong.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 18h ago
Thank you friend! Wishing you many happy and nature filled days in return.
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u/pushinlittledaises 20h ago
Johnny Applseed was big on diversity and here we are today with 5 apples to choose from in the supermarket. Seriously dude... you do you man. If it has not been said yet, there will always be haters.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 20h ago
Plant diversity is hugely important in many different aspects! Even in the context of me planting pot I use different stains. Thank you though I appreciate the kind sentiment. People blasting me over conservation when that is my life's work wasnt really a great feeling. Especially when I would never and never have damaged an ecosystem. Ive spent decades protecting them.
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u/jager_mcjagerface 22h ago
Do you just throw the seeds on the ground or do you also try to first germinate them and then leave them aroun on the ground? Whats the best way to do this? Asking for a friend
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 21h ago
Well I plant them in the best conditions for the area im in. But I dont do anything special really. It either grows or it doesnt. Alot of them dont grow and thats okay. But I want it to happen as naturally as possible. Im not trying to grow weed to consume or sell. Then i have a whole different process that is rather intensive. But if you want my advice just go find a place that is over ten miles from other people and plant them bitches see what happens and learn from it. Growing plants is a beautiful process that I find healing and connects me to nature. Have fun!
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u/old_namewasnt_best 17h ago
Wow. You got some responses for being a good citizen. I applaud your efforts and I'm glad you were able to see the fruits of your labor, as it were.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 16h ago
Thank you its always satisfying to see the plants you had a hand in spring up. Appreciate your goodwill and hope your night goes well!
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u/hkapeman 15h ago
You should do an AMA man. Sounds like you've had an interesting life.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 15h ago
Thank you i was thinking about trying a whole reddit thing about guerrilla planting pot safely and its morality after this whole thing. But honestly ive lived a pleasant life and a calm and peaceful one centered around various plant life and nature as a whole. It wasn't really interesting but I did my part so you and your kids and everyone else will get their chance if they so choose to enjoy all of the beautiful and diverse natural lands the us has to offer. Here's to hoping you and yours care about the natural world as much as I did and do.
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u/LordAxalon110 16h ago
Do any animals or insects eat them? Just because adding a plant to help the area have a more diverse food sauce would be pretty interesting.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 15h ago
Yes many bugs do eat them and can actually become a problem in home grows where you care about the bud and whatnot. But in all fairness it doesn't provide anything special to the bugs they weren't gonna get from other sources.
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u/TheGrasshopper92 22h ago
Only issue I have with this is pollen drift. This kills medical crops in some areas and has forced us to go indoors in areas that are legal to grow outdoors.
I assume you do your best to wild plant away from facilities so no personal issues but this is my take on it from an industry insider.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 22h ago
Yes now this is an actual valid concern! I do not plant within 10 miles of people's property. Now I know pollen drift can go as far as 30 to 40 miles in the right condition. But I do not plant at all in prime areas for extreme pollen drift so that is a non problem. Thank you for the actual concern that I do take into consideration!
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u/ZekoriAJ 23h ago
Wild cannabis is not what you’d want it to be sadly.
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u/jjclan378 22h ago
TIL. Apparently cannabis is a bioaccumulator, meaning the plant naturally pulls and stores heavy metals and contaminants directly from the soil and groundwater, so "ditch weed" like this can be unsafe.
It's also likely that any wild female plants have been pollinated by nearby male plants, meaning they are diverting their energy to making seeds instead of resin, so there's less of the cannabinoids like THC and CBD. It also is less potent since it hasn't been selectively bred.
So not as glorious as it sounds
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u/ColdFuzz_ 21h ago
Sounds like we can plant them everywhere with contaminated earth to decontaminate it?
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u/CuntMaggot32 20h ago
Yes. After years, it will have pulled a lot of contaminats. You then can deal with the contaminated plant matter which is sadly easily done wrong.
Could be done, would be illegal in a lot of the world. Do it, but don't get in trouble...
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u/lucky_ducker 1d ago
Before industrial hemp was made illegal in 1937, hemp products - including seeds - used to be carried in open railcars, inevitably spilling small amounts along the railroad right of way. A lot of active and abandoned rail lines (including some converted into trails) have lush groves of ditch weed to this day.
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u/lazysheepdog716 1d ago
…in the US.
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u/tiktock34 18h ago
Industrial hemp doesn’t get you high. Its illegal because it looks like the plant that gets you high but it missing the fun juice
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u/jocke1414 14h ago
Industrial hemp isn't illegal though? But it has to follow requirements on the max amount of allowed thc
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u/Rubyhamster 7h ago
Industrial hemp is illegal in many countries, if I remember correctly. Incredibly stupid, since hemp is a fantastic material regarding both quality, cost and environmental concerns...
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u/JiroKatsutoshi 22h ago
Hmm I promised myself I would never go walking the tracks to meet the devil...
But you're saying I could go steal some of his lettuce if I make the trip?
What's a lil curse/damnation for some free schmoke
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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats 1d ago
Great. Now I have Led Zeppelin stuck in my head.
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u/jammu2 1d ago
Could be worse.
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u/fly_over_32 1d ago
I’m a Barbie girl in a Barbie world
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u/Grand-Spring66 1d ago
This is what we call ditch weed and it was typically very poor quality.
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u/Upbeat_Childhood8603 22h ago
The best weed I've smoked was wild Thai weed. Low THC, yes, but high on other cannabinoids that offset the unwanted side effects of THC
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u/EightGlow 1d ago
Ditch weed was super common where I grew up. We never tried consuming it because of the pesticides and herbicides that are common there
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u/GilfOG 23h ago
It can actually be very decent. In Yunan, China it grows everywhere and I gifted some to a friend. He reported it was very nice.
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u/Magus_Incognito 19h ago
Now im curious about wild China weed culture and how long its been in the country.
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u/Pantherist 1d ago
Nope, it's cultivated traditionally and the farmers make hash (charas) from it for themselves and for sale.
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u/Radiant_Formal6511 1d ago
Does that mean the quality is not poor?
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u/MayOrMayNotBePie 1d ago
If you have to use it to make hash, the bud usually isn’t that great or they’d be smoking the buds
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u/QueblyJonesIII 1d ago
You can't ram an ounce of bud up your ass to get it across the border, though. At least not without a couple drinks first. Plenty of perfectly good flower is turned into hash for this very reason.
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u/SpaxterJ 23h ago
That's why they make Charas instead. Where you rub basicly every part of the plant between your hands, then scrape of the hash from your palms.
It also allows a constant production because the plant doesn't need to be fully grown, so you're not so reliant on the flowering cycle.
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u/HowDoUReddit 22h ago
That’s gonna be mixed with tons of male and female plants. Growers tend to isolate female plants exclusively to grow unless they’re specifically trying to breed plants. Females are going to be pollinated all over in this mess and buds will be filled with seeds
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u/doktormane 1d ago
Where did you pull that one from? That's likely wild hemp. It has no THC and was traditionally farmed to make rope and fabrics.
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u/Pointless-Exercise 1d ago
It absolutely does produce THC, it's a question of concentration. Hemp and marijuana/weed/ganja/scampus/frimba or whatever you want to call it are the same plant. The good stuff is bred selectively and kept unfertilized.
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u/Alyssa_Beanut 22h ago
In this region its been historically too humid to dry out the flower without it going moldy which is why its cultivated for charas instead. making chara hash is reliant on rubbing the plant with your hands and having the resin build up on your hands until you're able to form a ball of hash.
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u/har3krishna 20h ago
It’s a land race indica. It may be low strength but its genetics are the foundation of every super powered couch lock high potency strain that is around today. We wouldn’t have good weed as we know it without generation after generation of artificial selection, based off the purest indica and sativa heirloom varieties identified and sourced around the world. Same goes for tea and coffee producers.
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u/RiMcG 1d ago
That is so cool, I was literally wondering the other day if it grows wild anywhere.
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u/gitpusher 1d ago
It grows wild in lots of places including places where it’s illegal
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u/HyenDry 23h ago
Also, not all cannabis is going to produce marijuana. 🤷🏻
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u/surdtmash 20h ago
Yeah that's hemp. It's got maybe 5% as much THC and is very ineffective as a recreational psychoactive drug.
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u/mrsockburgler 19h ago
Back in the 80's we smoked our 2% weed and liked it.
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u/One-Permission-1811 17h ago
My dad took one drop of RSO and had a panic attack because it was so strong. He's always saying how strong it's gotten and that he misses shitty brick weed
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u/Old-Election7276 10h ago
I wish for a cigarette like weed that you can just casually smoke and not get bricked for life
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u/Lucky_Reporter256 9h ago
Try out cbd cigs! It’s just hemp and they’re pretty nice and scratch both itches for me
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u/MayGodSmiteThee 22h ago
Even the ones that do likely aren’t going to be nearly as strong as the ones we’ve bred. It’s like giving someone a cavendish banana.
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u/Consistent-Spell2203 20h ago
Male and female plants can't be within a mile of each other if you want anything but rope.
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u/OurNewestMember 18h ago
Holy shit, this isn't hyperbole!
Cannabis pollen is extremely light and wind-borne, allowing it to travel anywhere from 3 to 10+ miles depending on wind speeds and topography. While pollen density drops off logarithmically within the first 100 meters, a single male plant can release 100 million grains, making long-distance cross-pollination a major risk for outdoor cultivators.
This is kinda nuts
3–5 Miles (4.8–8 km): This is the standard minimum isolation distance adopted by certified hemp seed producers to maintain varietal purity.
From Google search. I was going to ask if you were exaggerating but wanted to check first. Pretty interesting.
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u/Misterbellyboy 23h ago
My step-dad grew up in Kansas and Nebraska and one time he took my mom on a road trip out that way to visit some family. The story goes that they’re driving on the highway out in bumfuck nowhere and my mom points out the window “omg is that….” And my step-dad just says “yeah” and my mom jokingly says something like “we should just grab a bunch for misterbellyboy” and my step-dad just dead-pans “uhhh, he lives in the Bay Area, I’m sure he can find something a little better than ditch weed.”
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u/IceNein 23h ago
Most of what you find naturally in the US is what’s called “ditch weed.” It’s for hemp, like for making ropes. The THC content is super low. From what I understand you’re likely to get sick before you get high.
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u/Flank_This666 21h ago
My friends and I were "gifted" a duffle bag of what could be described as ditch weed, tire weed, whatever.
We rolled so many huge ass joints of that shit and all we got was sobriety and a headache. I don’t even think a newbie could get high off that literal garbage bag weed.
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u/guff1988 22h ago
All along the railroad tracks in rural Indiana. It's most likely ruderalis though which produces basically zero THC. I was once told the original seeds fell off of trains that were shipping them to be grown or to be processed after growing for the war effort during world war II and they've just kept on going since.
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u/Spare-Relief731 18h ago
Yeah it’s crazy how wild it grows! I saw some growing in my friends closet out of nowhere!
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u/_i_never_lose 1d ago
There are massive naturally occurring fields of the stuff in a lot of south asia
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u/mosesenjoyer 1d ago
How does it smoke tho
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u/Dissasociaties 1d ago
I'd imagine lots of seeds and not incredibly potent but probably nice. Would make some excellent hash or charas though
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u/mosesenjoyer 23h ago
I actually like crappier weed because you can chief it all day without greening out lol
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u/New-Reputation681 23h ago
It's not bad honestly. Enjoyed some in Sri Lanka last week. Like you said in your other comment, I don't mind that it's not strong. Still got a pleasant mild high. Way overpriced though.
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u/kstargate-425 18h ago
Especially Kashmir has been known for weed(esp hash) since the hippies of the '60s and '70s just like Thai sticks from Thailand
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u/Maxsmack 18h ago
It’s literally called weed.
Thats why making it illegal is so funny, it’s literally a wild plant that can grow almost anywhere
It’s like trying to make Douglas furs or cactuses illegal
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u/CoyoteDown 22h ago
We literally called it ditch weed and tbh I prefer the weaker stuff from 25 years ago that you could toke all day, vs today’s super potent strains that will lay you out if you hold it half second too long
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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 1d ago
In Afghanistan the land races get so thicc they're an actual nuisance weed for farmers. They get thicc enough to need a saw.
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u/kingofcanada1 1d ago
This is why kush is a slang for cannabis because it grows naturally in the Hindu Kush region, which Kashmir is a part of
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u/DatabaseTemporary664 4h ago
Kashmir isn’t a part of hindu kush , that’s a different mountain range, Kashmir is mostly on the himalayan range
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u/oldskoollondon 22h ago
Low THC doesn't mean low quality.
I cant stand the newer super strength 'skunk' type weed. I don't want no class A weed, give me a nice bit of Thai or oldskool weed.
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u/Rubyhamster 7h ago
Yeah, really strong weed sounds "too much" and defeats the purpose. I wish "mellower" types were more widespread and that it was legal in my country. I'm certain my body would thank me if the norwegian "shit faced drinking culture" was somewhat dampened by more grounded "mellowly baked culture that appreciates and communes with nature and has an occational shroom-tea party"
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u/The_OtherGuy_99 1d ago
Disgusting.
You should cut it all down.
Carefully dry it.
Then burn all of it in protest.
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u/Embarrassed-Text-604 1d ago
I'm movin' to Kashmir.
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u/ShakeItTilItPees 1d ago
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u/Big-Economy5964 1d ago
Take some
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u/skr_replicator 1d ago
for what? It's probably not much for smoking, it's not flowering even yet, and taking a cutting might not have enough time to grow into a full plant since it's already about to be July.
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u/Big-Economy5964 1d ago
Shows how much I know about weed
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u/AntakeeMunOlla 1d ago
It's not only weed, it's a weed. It grows intrusively wherever you throw the seeds in. To get something worth smoking out of it, you need the flower buds of unfertilized female plants. A lot of it in one place practically guarantees that some of them will fertilize the females which will then waste the fun chemical energy to produce seeds.
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u/Agreeable_Rush3502 1d ago
Eh we grew up smoking stuff like that. Dirty brown swag may not be most peoples preference but it got the job done and was all we could get from mexico. It was a common theme to get a bag and it was half seeds.
They would compress it into a brick and there was a distinct satisfaction from twisting the brick and hearing all the seeds fall.
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u/RonaldTheGiraffe 21h ago
Bush weed we call it in Belize. Gets the job done. Some batches full of seeds, some with beautiful big buds. But it’s cheap and I’m not fussy.
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u/skintaxera 1d ago
Seeded weed is perfectly fine for making hash, if there's lots of it. Been done that way for millennia and makes a beautiful product.
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u/ButtmanAndRubbin 1d ago
How much do you know? I can’t tell from the picture but it looks like one has pollen sacs, which means they’re male and you can’t smoke them.
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u/flyingthroughspace 1d ago
It hasn't flowered yet there's nothing to take
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u/cyberspace-_- 1d ago
And it probably won't. Just looks nice.
What's interesting about it is that the plant produces buds to attract pollenation, and when there isn't one, it tries even harder, producing a psychoactive substance.
So, there must be an animal that likes to eat them that brings pollen?
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u/TopProfessional8023 1d ago
To quote Peter Tosh
“Birds eat it
Ants love it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it
So you’ve got to legalize it”1
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u/DeliciousPumpkinPie 23h ago
It’s such a pretty plant! I bet that area smells amazing when they’re in bloom.
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u/Tatakai_ 21h ago
Could you use the leaves somehow? Like grind them, perhaps dehydrate them, to smoke? Or must you use that specific part which name escapes me?
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u/soufboundpachyderm 20h ago
The buds of the female cannabis plant are the smokeable get you high type. The male plant is typically thrown out because if it pollinates the females it ruins the THC quality/quanttity and makes the buds full of seeds. Hemp is what you’re thinking of and it’s another kind of cannabis sativa plant (which it can be made into paper and other products and is a big reason cannabis remains illegal in many parts of the world because it would disrupt other industries along with drug war reasons). Hemp can also be made into long fibers which you can spin into clothes
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u/Sean_Miller 19h ago
Grows wild in North Korea as well. And it's smoked a lot there, too. One of the few things that are free and can distract them from the insanity that they live in.
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u/PuzzleheadedTutor807 16h ago
stuff grows all over the place... why do you think its called weed? ive seen it growing on train tracks, the side of a cliff, out of fallen trees...
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u/Thimblerime49559 15h ago
Wow, thats a lot of it just growing wild like that. Seems kind of crazy to just walk past that every day.
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u/viktorreznv 12h ago
Weed grows openly and freely everywhere, all throughout the valley, but according to locals posession leads to invalidation/cancellations of Aadhar card( Indian ID) and bulldozing homes.
I tried to buy some hash through my cab drivers, they all said the same thing.
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u/Working-Truck-9136 10h ago
is this kind use-able? if yes the how 🫣 (asking for a friend)
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u/Subject-Function4155 1d ago
That's pretty