Cannabis Seeds

Throughout this era, “marijuana” was unknown in California. As a fiber crop, it was familiar as hemp or cannabis sativa. As a drug, it was known to pharmacists by its alternative botanical name, cannabis indica (originally regarded as a different species). As an intoxicant, it was barely heard of, going by the name of hashish or Indian hemp, indulgence in which was an exotic vice of Asiatic foreigners and a handful of bohemians. "Marijuana," the Mexican name for the drug, was unknown in the state until the twentieth century. Prior to this the evidence for the use of hemp intoxicants in California is exceedingly slim.2 Cannabis had initially been introduced to California in the form of hemp by the Spanish, who cultivated it as a fiber crop at the missions.3 Small scale experiments with hemp cultivation continued sporadically into the twentieth century in the Sacramento Valley and later Imperial County.4  Marijuana seeds. There is no reason to suspect that either the Spanish or native peoples knew of its psychoactive or medical properties.5 American-grown cannabis sativa was thought to have negligible psychoactivity, being thereby distinguished from medical grade cannabis indica, which was imported from India via England. Cannabis indica became available in American pharmacies in the 1850’s following its introduction to western medicine by William O'Shaughnessy (1839).6 In its original pharmaceutical usage, it was regularly consumed orally, not smoked. The first popular American account of cannabis intoxication was published in 1854 by Bayard Taylor, writer, world traveler and diplomat.7 Though an easterner, Taylor had California connections, having ventured to the state in 1849 to write a popular Gold Rush travelogue, El Dorado. <a href="http://www.ministryofcannabis.com/it/">semi di cannabis</a>  After returning home to New York he departed for Egypt and Syria, where he encountered hashish. Having indulged his curiosity, he recounted his experiences in the manner of his French contemporaries of the Club des Haschischins in an article for Putnam's magazine and two books, A Journal to Central Africa and The Land of the Saracens <a href="http://www.ministryofcannabis.com/fr/">graines de cannabis</a>
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