[420empire]

Hey yall

I would like to know if there is any who know if there is such thing as a Japanese strain? By that i dosen't mean strains that are growing in some cabinet in a random house in one of the big cities (these are probably skunk crosses from US, or EU). I'am more into some good old landrace seeds, that are hold onto by a old zen buddhist munk in a vally far far away. Maybe getting a littel too romantic here, but I really hope there is some nice unknown strains from Japan out there. I have read that the use of the sacred herb was being burnt as a gift to the mountain gods, so there most be something.
Cheers :


a littel info:

https://www.japanhemp.org/en/thc.htm

(hope it is ok to link?? )

[headbutt no1]

I could be wrong but i think Japan has a long history with high quality industrial hemp so good powerful drug populations may be hard to find but like I said I could be wrong.

[Yes4Prop215]

highly doubt it....japan is so developed that its hard to find pristine untouched acres where landraces might survive..
interesting topic though...japan is just not a big cannabis country. not alot of demand, the lifestyle and hectic pace of things is not very cannabis friendly. im a daily toker in the US but whenever i visit Japan i go cold turkey on the weed and turn up the alcohol and cig intake..

the sad shit is that many kids are smoking "spice" which is crap...instead of the healthier cannnabis.

[420empire]

The roots of Shinto religion probably date back to the neolithic Jomon culture (10,000-300 BCE), and so it is quite possible that psychoactive cannabis had been available in Japan for well over 2000 years.

It is no secret that weedy (uncultivated) hemp in Hokkaido is still psychoactive. Indeed, every year some people try to harvest it in the autumn and get caught by the police. Its potency has been described as "quite good". It descended from cannabis legally grown by Japanese farmers until the late 1940s. Hokkaido hemp is by no means the only kind of indigenous psychoactive cannabis found in Japan:

"A survey of the THC, CBN and CBD content of hemp from all parts of Japan was reported by Dr. Keizo Watanabe. Marihuana from Tochigi and Hokkaido regions contained a 3.9 per cent and 3.4 per cent THC, respectively." (UNDCP 73/3)

These potency figures are comparable to marijuana available in Jamaica and Mexico in the 1970s.

[420empire]

2000 years seems like a hell of time. And as the article tell us, there is a high possiblty that the genetics are from sout east asia.

potent cannabis is uncommon at northern lattitudes it seems likely that Hokkaido hemp is unrelated to Siberian hemp and was introduced from further south. It may have originated from seed hemp cultivated there for making oil, bird feed or human food. In other countries varieties grown for seed production were sometimes psychoactive. For example, the most common type of bird seed hemp in the USA before cannabis was prohibited was a strain known as "Smyrna hemp". Besides seeds this plant from modern day Izmir, Turkey also produced resin for hashish known as "Smyrna powder".

Another possibility is that potent cannabis was introduced from India or Southeast Asia, where cannabis smoking has a long history. Until 1948 cannabis could be legally imported into Japan from other countries. Marijuana, hashish or viable seeds could be shipped from India and Thailand to Japan. Japan has a long history of trading with China, which in turn sent ships as far as Africa. In the 8th century Buddhism reached Japan from India via Nepal and China. Later Japan was trading with Portugal which had a base in Goa, India and with the Dutch who colonized Indonesia, places where marijuana use was not uncommon. The famous Silk Road carried trade from Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan all the way to Japan.

I think this subject is gedtting more interesting.

Cheers :-)

ps. thanks for the replying to my thread.

[plastochron]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=73261