Looking good! Thanks for updating us. 
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this one is our unreleased selection. possible for later release, but was done on preferred structure and heavy chunky flowers, its going to be a stellar in the vegetative state. this variety was hand picked from this population.
Flower snap
video of flower structure before drought spell in the region, due to disallowance of cultivation in Kandahar.
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Family heirlooms of Kandahar before getting bulldozed whilst transitioning to flower.
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Regarding the eradication and prohibition. How long have those farms been producing cannabis in that part of Kandahar? Which village farms are being bulldozed? Shahjoy, Daman, Markaz Baboos?
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The places closer to population were subjected to culling and destruction, Markaz is at Logar. Shahjoy is in Zabul. Also, you could only find the plants (healthy and robust) like such only from our documentation as it is closer to population it is the easier to cater with the help of resources available for conventional agriculture. Unlike The far-flung Maruf cultivations.
Family heirlooms are only from Arghandab Kandahar. The place is called the Ancestral origin for a reason. centuries of cultivation there according to Farmers.
Recent popularity from 2010-onwards, and coverage of the region due to the reason of ease of moving the Hashish easily towards Pak/Iran which are in very close proximity.
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What has caused these changes in government policy?
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The new Regime their new rules of Drug free Afghanistan…
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I see. Thank you for a fast and detailed reply.
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Thats some branchy “hemp”!
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Neat map…that map forgot about Angola😁 The Portuguese found cannabis growing there when they first arrived, as it had been for thousands of years, now known from drug pollen samples found Northwest of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, near to Angola. As the Delta is now and has been for centuries a place of trade, surely it was already in South Africa at that time as well. ie Swazi Red, likely related to Angola Red.
Additionally, at that time. Late 1400’s, Angola was part of the Kingdom of Congo, which stretched from Gabon in the North to the Kwanza River in the South, in present day Angola. This makes it likely the whole region cultivated cannabis long before is currently known. The jungle is HELL on pollen. Doubt we’d find any.
These maps need updating almost yearly now. Its the information age and new discoveries happen all the time.
The location for the oldest pollen samples keeps moving for instance.
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Those pollen samples aren’t always accurate either. I think there isn’t enough information to make so many claims. It is good to look with a skeptical eye.
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One of the most underrated historical needs in the past was rope. Large sailing ships needed 4 miles (6.5Km) of ropes of various sizes… per ship.
The stuff was always wearing out and needed replacing. The Europeans all had a policy of growing hemp in all of their colonies.
I’m sure that was just making ‘official’ the sailor’s previous habits of planting hemp wherever they went. I’ll bet hemp seed was a standard component of ship’s stores, going way back to the beginnings of sea trading (where’s a Phoenician when you need one… 
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Cheers
G
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Due to the unreliability of thousands of year old pollen, I think following the genetics would be the way. Just like how they traced peoples travels backwards.
From cannabis: a complete guide by Ernst Small
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Not exactly cannabis, but a good friend of my has a hops plant found in a lead mine in newfoundland operated in the late 1800s. The plant was brought here by Moroccan Pirates that frequently visited these waters during the 1800s
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SE Asian variety most probably
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https://pages.vassar.edu/realarchaeology/2018/09/23/pollen-dating/
Says it can take us back further in time than radio carbon dating. Archaeologists are using pollen samples to help with dating now. One problem they pointed out with pollen is Wind Drift. You’d have to look at the prevailing winds and see which other direction it could have come from but with the Congo jungle firmly between Botswana and known areas of cultivation that are ancient in Northern Africa…and the wind’s not going in those directions either… I would agree with the archeologists and say that the pollen was local
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