When I started smoking cannabis in the late 90s there was still a major stigma around the plant.
- I had to hide it from my mom and dad even after I graduated from undergraduate college.
Only a handful of my college friends used the plant in the first place, which is a far cry from the 2020s now that both of us have famous people being open about their frequent cannabis use. These days you can get on the internet & in tenths have megabytes of information about cannabis, its effects, & its long & assorted history. But when I was first starting out as a marijuana smoker, everything I knew about the plant I had to learn from friends & friends or from clandestine books. Some people might have heard about the Anarchist’s Cookbook & its infamy as a guide on amateur bomb-making, but it’s just a single of hundreds of other famous books that were published by underground companies finally working within the grey areas of the law. My marijuana grower associate first l received how to raise the plant from a single of these books, & he bought it at a head shop with his other books on cannabis. Although he works in a legal marijuana market for a reputable cannabis producer, he places the information gathered from those books as his foundation in growing cannabis. One of those books was called the Marijuana Growing Bible, & I ended up buying a copy at a single point. That’s where I learned about the history of landrace sativa & indica strains, along with the often forgotten ruderalis genre of cannabis plants.
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