Cannabis Chronicles

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 [...]

We are cleaning up the old picture files at the bird’s nest, as a part of a long term project to better organize our archives.
Here’s a pic that demonstrates the wonderful “canopy” of lil LUI plants found in the bird’s nest circa 2003-2004 when we were originally doing our LUI grow along at Cannabis World. [...]

LUI Day 90
here’s a peek at day 90 . . . these babes are a couple days into their 8th week
and harvest is looking closer and closer . . .

thanks again for everyone who’s chirped in . . . certainly this LUI grow has been
a real labor of love . . [...]

LUI Day 89

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LUI Day 89 - LUI 10__ here’s the first in a series of individual LUI portraits . . .

LUI Day 89 - LUI 12 __ the 2nd in the LUI portrait series . . .

LUI Day 89 - LUI 2 ___ the 3rd of the LUI’s . [...]

LUI’s Day 88 . . . and a “bird’s eye” view down at the smallest of the LUI on day
88 . . . their 49th day of bloom . . . completing their 7th week of bloom! they
are starting to look very tempting . . . even [...]

LUI Day 85
the colas keep putting on weight . . . a good friend (our wingman) told us we’d be
amazed at the way these babes continued to pack on the weight up to the end . . .
and as usual, he was absolutely correct . . . this is day 46 [...]

LUI Day 87
the LUI’s got a little attention on day 87 . . . since they are growing so huge . . .
we decided to rotate these babes . . . we ended up moving them to the outer
edge of our garden to help assure they get as much ventilation as [...]

LUI Day 86
on day 86 for the LUIs, they got a small drink of pure water . . . and kind words
of encouragement . . . about 2 gallons of water was shared between the bunch . .
. and that’s the way it was . . . [...]