Category - Cannabis History

Telling your parents that you smoke weed can be a daunting prospect. My parents have both passed, but I recently told my older sister that I’ve been an occasional user for a few years. I had no idea what kind of...

An ancient group of people called the Yamnaya are often credited with helping establish the first major civilisation in Eurasia. Some researchers believe they may also have been the world’s first cannabis dealers...

We’ve all been there. Good music, good vibes, and a smoke-filled room full of giggles. You’re having a great time, and then, you’re not. Your eyes are red, your gums are dry, and standing up has gone...

The greatest playwright of all time may have been high when he wrote his most famous works. According to a study conducted in 2001, researchers detected traces of cannabis in pipes belonging to William Shakespeare[i]...

Former NBA superstar Kenyon Martin recently estimated that around 85 percent of all players in the world’s top basketball league used cannabis during his time as a pro, while retired NFL ace Martellus Bennett says the...

Like other psychoactive plants, cannabis is often consumed for spiritual purposes. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as an “entheogen,” which translates to “that which causes man to become possessed by God.”...

Across the last twenty or so years numerous chemotaxonomic and genetic studies had attempted to understand cannabis origins, when and where cannabis acquired such different properties, and how the cannabis plant should...

Last week we dedicated an article to the exciting life of Michka Seeliger-Chatelain, known as Michka. Today, you can get to know this great lady a little better, thanks to a recent interview with Seedsman. Can you tell...

Michka Seeliger-Chatelain is a writer, editor, adventurer, and activist, well known for her passion for cannabis. Born in France but identifying as a citizen of the world, Michka is a colourful character with a vibrant...

Before we get started, let’s be clear that smoking a bowl and heading to the gym is a terrible idea if you don’t know your tolerance. A gym is loud and bright and full of people and the last place...

American cannabis has played a pivotal role in the country’s culture and history. It began, as it did in so many other places, with hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, sails, clothes, food, fuel, paper and...

Since becoming the first industrialized nation to legalize recreational marijuana in 2018, Canada has led globally on progressive cannabis use and consumption. While not without its own issues and a black market that...

The cannabis world is incredibly diverse. It is made up of growers, breeders, stoners, hippies, medicinal cannabis users, artists, businessmen and more. It is therefore not surprising to find among this mass of people...

In Seedsman’s latest livestream, we brought together two of the internet’s most influential cannabis-based content producers to discuss the differences between cannabis culture in the UK and Canada. Appearing in...

This Tuesday marks a holy day in the cannabis calendar, with weed aficionados around the world gearing up for the annual 4/20 celebration. As the event’s profile has grown in recent decades, the figure 420 has become...

Who would ever have thought that setting fire to a tiny amount of a common herb could lead not only to a better sex life and jazz but also to several years in prison? Such was the paradoxical history of cannabis use in...

The psychoactive effects of the cannabis plant can be enjoyed in several kinds of preparation. The simplest way is to collect and then either smoke or eat the dried, resinous buds of mature female plants, most commonly...

While the legal situation around cannabis in the US differs greatly from that in the UK, one key similarity binds the two nations: in both countries, women have provided the driving force for change, spearheading the...

Recently, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said that the current COVID-19 pandemic has set back reducing the gender inequality gap by years. In 2021, this remains a priority as the lack of gender...

The contribution of women to science has historically not received the recognition it deserves, but with so many amazing women at the forefront of cannabis research, it’s high time we paid homage to some of these...

Cannabis consuming and weed growing women are on the rise, as are the numbers of us working in all aspects of the cannabis industry. Yet many women feel that this is still a male dominated space and that women’s...

Over the last couple of decades or so, various and sometimes seemingly bizarre, niche yoga classes have become available, including yoga for dogs (Doga), nude yoga, stand-up paddleboard yoga (SUP), and wine-tasting yoga...

The issue of parents using cannabis has always been something of a hot potato, although whether we talk about it or not, the fact remains that many parents do smoke pot. Surely, then, it’s better to listen to what these...

Globally, cannabis has many associations with Africa, one notable example being in the lyrics of Bob Marley. In another blog (‘How cannabis became illegal’), it was explained how cannabis culture was introduced into the...

In the 17th century, even though hemp was one of the most important agricultural crops, planted widely in Europe or the USA, nobody knew about the potentially psychoactive effects of the cannabis plant. One of the...

Having travelled overland from England, I arrived in September 1977 at the Attari-Wagah border-crossing between Pakistan and India, in the Punjab. Among the first people I saw in India were bearded soldiers on duty...

Before 1985, only a small number of tourists were able to get permits to visit a restricted number of places in China. Beginning in1985, it became possible to get an individual tourist visa to visit most places in the...