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Unveiling the Green: Demystifying Cannabis and Its Multifaceted Benefits

The Herb Collective

This versatile plant, which has been both vilified and celebrated throughout history, is finally getting the recognition it deserves in various sectors, including medicine, wellness, and sustainable development. Cannabidiol (CBD), one of the many compounds found in cannabis, has been at the forefront of this revolution.

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What are cannabis landrace strains?

The Cannigma

While cannabis likely began in the Himalayan region, it spread in our early human history and was found all over the world in different natural environments where it had evolved into different varieties of cannabis – the landrace strains. They brought back landrace sativas from places like Mexico, Thailand and Africa.

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Where Did Cannabis Come From? New Study Pinpoints East Asia

Cannabis Law Report

The international team of researchers, led by co-authors from Switzerland and China, wrote that through genome sequencing they “show that sativa was first domesticated in early Neolithic times in East Asia and that all current hemp and drug cultivars diverged from an ancestral gene pool currently represented by feral plants and landraces in China.”.

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Data Analysis Yields Insights Into Medical Cannabis Use, Efficacy

Cannabis Law Report

Pharmaceutical companies use artificial intelligence (AI) to sort through reams of scientific data to find potentially effective active ingredients to be developed into approved drugs. The company’s analysis of the collected data yielded several insights. Indicas accounted for about 46% of use, sativas about 33%, and hybrids 21%.

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Really It’s 2021 – Why Is A Strain Still Called Jack The Ripper? Celebrating Violence Against Women.

Cannabis Law Report

The strain was reportedly developed by Subcool’s the Dank , the same breeder behind the strain Chernobyl (he has a thing for names that aren’t especially chill). He has described it as a cross of a Space Queen male with a Jack’s Cleaner clone — the latter being a strain that was also developed by Subcool. Source [link].

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Cannabis Was First Domesticated in East Asia 12,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds

SpeedWeed

Humans have been domesticating cannabis plants to use as medicine, fiber, and food for at least 12,000 years , researchers have recently discovered. . A global team of researchers spent four years collecting 110 different cannabis varieties from around the world and used them to sequence 82 new cannabis genomes. .

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What is Skunk?

Medical Cannabis Seedbank

Skunk: History: Going back a few years, let’s take a look at how this magnificent strain’s story develops. Colombian Gold and Acapulco Gold are both tall Sativa plants while Afghan is a stocky/bushy Indica. The combination is what we call today as a Hybrid, Sativa/Indica. This accounted for 44.9% of the world total.

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