@Til_Valhalla Ffs lol. I nearly peed myself 
. "It’s not a QUESTION of where it grips it. It’s a simple question of weight ratios"
. Thanks for the laugh.
@CocoaCoir thats neat stuff about the mound builder culture. Any links to add? I found this.1200 BC: Earliest evidence of cannabis in America - Hemp History.
I read about the Jesuits claiming to have seen cannabis in Newfoundland When they first arrived in the fifteen hundreds, But others
Sources claimed it was joe pye weed they saw.so i didn’t argue. I always thought the Jesuits would know what hemp looks like though…common plant in Europe at the time. A pollen sample now, that’s more definitive. Question is, are there any plants, like the one from Madagascar that you mentioned may have skewed the Namibia pollen sample, that grow in the states? Any pollen evidence in the mound builder areas That would tell us this wasn’t viking cultivation only?
A new Oneida Native friend of mine knows where there are two patches of new york landrace cannabis growing not very far from where I live. He says it is no longer the pure indigenous strain, But that back in the 1700s Benjamin franklin gave the iroquois seed and they mixed it with their native variety. So it’s an iroquois/ ben franklin strain apparently.
The iroquois story is that it was brought from mexico five hundred years ago, gotten from the Aztecs. That could still mean a European origin.
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