Cannabis Chronicles

Gun control opponents are often quoted as saying, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” It’s their way of saying that lacking a firearm, there are still plenty of ways that an angry individual can harm another with fatal intent and results.
With that in mind, every time we see a death in the drug [...]

In an earlier posting here at the Cannabis Chronicles called Roundup Woes, we detailed a bit of the economic problem agrochemicals giant Monsanto is having with the production of it’s leading herbicide. While further researching Fusarium fungus for our recent series of journal entries called Fusarium Attack, we discovered another significant problem with the [...]

As we mentioned in our last journal entry, as a scientist trained specifically in the field of fungus species like Fusarium, Jeremy Bigwood is uniquely qualified to speak against the ill considered development and use of biological herbicides in the War on Drugs. Here’s an article he penned for In These Times just two [...]

The earlier articles in our series on the use of Fusarium as a bio-herbicide in the drug war focused on the debate as it happened circa 1999-2002. This entry helps to bring the story more up to date, it comes from a website called the Narco News Bulletin which we discovered while researching “Plan [...]

The following take on the escalation of the drug war through the use of biological herbicides comes from CounterPunch, a bi-weekly muckraking newsletter with a radical attitude who advertises that: “Nothing makes us happier than when CounterPunch readers write in to say how useful they’ve found our newsletter in their battles against the war machine, [...]

The Cannabis Chronicles ongoing archive of stories documenting the history of efforts to use Fusarium as a bio-herbicide weapon in the drug war now continues with another entry that originated in the New York Times . . .

Drug War Awaits Attack of Killer Fungus
By JIM ROBBINS

July 18, 2000
Dr. David C. Sands holds out a [...]

As was detailed in the previous entry here at the Cannabis Chronicles, a movement was started in the late 1990’s to use Fusarium fungus as a bio-herbicide to exterminate both Cannabis and Coca. Our archival coverage continues with another article from 1999, this one from a magazine called the New Scientist.

Operation Eradicate
* 11 September [...]

This journal entry begins a series we are calling “Fusarium Attack”, which will detail some of the history behind wrong headed efforts to employ the Fusarium fungus as a bio-control agent in the war on drugs.
The first article in this series that we’ll add to the Cannabis Chronicles archive is from the New York Times [...]

In a story we are calling “Let’s Go Blue Green!”, in honor of the University of Michigan’s famous sports cheer, it was reported that marijuana plants were discovered for the second time this year in that school’s botanical garden. The story was picked up by the Associated Press and reported pretty widely, [...]

Today is the day that tobacco smoking bans go into effect for coffee houses in the Netherlands, a somewhat controversial move that is actually very much in line with public smoking bans that are common in the E.U. and North America.
Here’s one look at the issue compliments of the Associated Press & BBC News [...]

A lady writes in to her local newspaper’s advice column:
‘Hi, I think that my son might have a marijuana plant growing in my kitchen. What should I do?’
The next day, the answer was posted in the paper:
‘Take some of the leaves, cut them up, mix them in with some tobacco, roll it into a cigarette [...]

As a part of our personal archiving project, we add yet another article to the compilation detailing the “Buds of Bekaa”, this time a 2001 piece from Newsweek Magazine . . .
Lebanon: Hash Makes A Comeback
The Bekaa Valley Regains Its Outlaw Reputation
NEWSWEEK
Sep 17, 2001 Issue
Abu Ali is back in business. Wading through a fertile [...]

Here are a couple of old pics of AK47 x Mazar from the 3LB archives . . .
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LINEAGE/BREEDER NOTES - The AK47 x Mazar cross was originally bred by an individual named Tallpines who was a member of the SSC. A small number of AK47 x Mazar seeds were originally [...]

Returning to our on-going personal project, archiving stories about hashish in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, here’s a piece from the British press that was printed late last year . . .

The dimly lit basement reeks of hashish. Piled high along a wall are dozens of large white sacks filled with the leaves and seeds of the [...]