Ancient And Modern History Of Marijuana
Cannabis evolved in Asia where it was first domesticated as hemp for both seed and cloth. Cannabis Ruderalis comes from Siberia near the Arctic circle where the summer growing season is determined by a lack of ice, not by any change in the daylight, so Ruderalis is the origin of autoflower plants that ignore the light cycle and go from seed to flower within 3 to 4 months. Ruderalis means rudimentary or primordial, and it is assumed to be the original cannabis plant, which humans then took and through selective breeding turned into two kinds of hemp plants, one with large seeds for food, and another with long internodes for fiber. The ancestor of all cannabis plants was a cousin of Ruderalis from Central Asia that would have had no need for autoflower. Since cannabis has no pollinator and its pollen drifts up to two miles with the wind, over thousands of years all of the original wild Ruderalis plants in Asia have become...