{"title":"Folk Methodology of Charas (Hashish) Production and Its Marketing at Afridi Tirah, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan","authors":"Muhammad Hamayun, Z. Shinwari","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_04","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Afridi Tirah is one of the most remote areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. It is a semi-autonomous region, surrounded by lofty mountains. The inhabitants belong to the Afridi tribe of Pathans. They follow their own customs in every sphere of life and discourage any outside interference so much that even the pertinent Political Agent hesitates to visit the valley. Cannabis sativa L. has been cultivated in the area for hundreds of years. Charas (hashish) is produced in large quantities from Cannabis through folk means. The resinous bract around the seed gives the most potent and best quality drug. The quality of drug deteriorates with increasing percentage of adulterants and contaminants like leaves and small twigs. The charas (“black gold”) produced is not only used locally, but also smuggled to other parts of Pakistan and abroad. In Afridi Tirah, more than 75% of the men above the age of 15 are habitual charas users. Amongst women, this percentage is negligible due to the traditional limitations of local custom.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130832331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Clarke, J. Erisman, D. Pate, D. Watson, H. V. D. van der Werf
{"title":"Welcome to the Journal of Industrial Hemp","authors":"R. Clarke, J. Erisman, D. Pate, D. Watson, H. V. D. van der Werf","doi":"10.1300/j237v09n02_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j237v09n02_01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114472612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CANNABIS CLINIC Fusarium Wilt","authors":"J. McPartland, K. Hillig","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_07","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Fusarium wilt is caused by two closely-related fungi, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cannabis. The disease was first described on hemp in Eastern Europe about 50 years ago, but is now found throughout the Northern hemisphere. Greenhouse studies demonstrated that all cultivars of Cannabis that were tested are susceptible. Signs and symptoms, life history of the pathogens, and control measures are discussed. Fusarium wilt is a menace to hemp cultivation worldwide because its causal fungi cannot be constrained by known organic control measures. The disease threat is compounded by misguided attempts to spread the fungi around the world to stop illicit marijuana cultivation.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121033479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hemp Production in Western Canada","authors":"C. Vera, A. Hanks","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_08","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hemp production has been successfully adapted to meet local conditions in western Canada. Production has been driven by commercial interest in this species as an oilseed crop. As hemp is a photosensitive plant, the higher latitudes of western Canada appear to contribute to increased levels of essential fatty acids in the seed. Cultivars of shorter stature and early maturity have been imported, or locally bred, for the specific purpose of oilseed production or dual purpose (seed and fiber). Over 2,700 ha were seeded in western Canada in 2003. Research continues in order to improve production practices and optimize seed yield of the crop, under conventional and Certified Organic systems.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129268272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Invisible Hemp Industry?","authors":"John E. Dvorak","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Many of the regular readers of the Journal of Industrial Hemp have been working with hemp for several years. Unfortunately, it sometimes does not feel like much progress is being made. At times, the hemp industry appears to be “invisible” because many of the advances that JIHreaders know about are not reported on by the media. This article goes into the history of hemp and draws parallels between today and the past. The good news is that while hemp may seem invisible, it is really being incorporated into several different industries in many new and innovative ways. Don't give up yet. It may take longer than we'd like, but substantial progress is being made.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115797754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engineering Perspectives of the Hemp Plant, Harvesting and Processing","authors":"Ying Chen, Jude Liu, J. Gratton","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The special characteristics of the hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) plant make it one of the most challenging crops to handle. Several studies, both in the laboratory and the field, have been conducted at the University of Manitoba, Canada, on the engineering perspectives of hemp production, including the physical and mechanical properties of the hemp plant, hemp harvesting and processing. Physical properties of the hemp plant, such as plant height, seed-head length, stem diameter and stem specific mass, vary highly within a field and across fields. The force and energy required for cutting a hemp stem are much greater than those required for cutting maize stalk and forage crops. The two-windrow harvesting concept has been demonstrated to be feasible and can be implemented into a commercial windrower for harvesting dual-purpose hemp. Conditioned hemp dries significantly faster than unconditioned hemp. However, conditioning hemp requires more power than conditioning a forage crop. The basic machine functions required for hemp fibre processing are separating the fibre from the core and cleaning the fibre. A field-going processing unit can be formed by combining a modified forage harvester and a straw walker from a grain combine. However, the effectiveness of such a unit is limited, and the design of new separating and cleaning devices may be required for higher fibre yield and purity.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125455885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"European Hemp Industry 2002","authors":"M. Karus","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_10","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents results from market surveys conducted by the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) in 2001, 2002 and 2003 on hemp production, processing and products. In 2003, the area under hemp cultivation in the European Union (EU) has reached 18,000 ha. The average yield of dry hemp stalks was 6 t/ha in 2001 and 2002. Seventy percent to 80% of fibre produced is used for specialty pulp for cigarette papers and technical applications, about 15% is used in the automotive sector, 5 to 6% is used for insulation mats. Approximately 95% of hurds are used as animal bedding, almost 5% are used in the building sector. More than 95% of seed is sold for animal feed (bird seed, bait for fishing), the remaining is used in the production of food in the form of whole grains, as hulled seed and as oil, small amounts go into the body care and cosmetic sector.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132073568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Multivariate Analysis of Allozyme Variation in 93 Cannabis Accessions from the VIR Germplasm Collection","authors":"K. Hillig","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Vavilov Institute (VIR) in Russia maintains the world's largest collection of Cannabis sativa hemp germplasm through periodic seed regeneration. Sample populations of 93 accessions from the VIR collection were assayed for allozyme variation at 17 gene loci by starch-gel electrophoresis. The frequencies of 47 alleles were subjected to principal components (PC) analysis. A scatter plot on the first two PC axes showed little tendency for the accessions to cluster according to country of origin or their assignment to eco-geographical groups. Three Chinese accessions previously assigned to the hemp biotype of C. indica clustered separately. Eleven other Chinese accessions clustered with accessions from Europe, Asia Minor, and central Asia, and are likely to be hybridized. Conservation ofC. indica hemp landraces is of vital importance to the hemp industry.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131704810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An International Symposium on the Most Advanced Applications that Can Be Foreseen for Hemp","authors":"G. Mandolino, P. Ranalli","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n02_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n02_11","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A report of the recent symposium on “Hemp: perspectives for advanced utilisation,” held in Bologna (Italy) on March 5-6, 2004, and organised by the Istituto Sperimentale per le Colture Industriali, under the sponsorship of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, is presented. The symposium was organised into an Introduction and four sessions: Agronomy; Fibre and Seed; Cannabinoids and Endo-cannabinoids; and Germplasm and Marker Assisted Selection. Twenty-two speakers were present, from nine different countries. The main topics covered during the symposium are reported.","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126789494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Again on the Nature of Inheritance of Chemotype","authors":"G. Mandolino","doi":"10.1300/J237v09n01_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J237v09n01_02","url":null,"abstract":"In Vol. 7, no. 1, 2002 of JIH, Karl Hillig reviewed a paper by Sytnik and Stelmah published in JIHA (Vol. 6, no. 1, 1999). Hillig criticized the conclusions drawn by the authors from their experiments, because the authors failed to keep distinct the qualitative and quantitative aspects of cannabinoid inheritance, and consequently contradict their own evidence. I think that in both Sytnik and Stelmah’s paper and in Hillig’s comments there is matter for reflection. To avoid misunderstanding, I will call here “chemotype” the chemical type of a plant; the chemotype can adequately be expressed as the CBD/THC content ratio, and appears to be under the control of a single gene. The experiments presented by de Meijer et al. (Genetics 163: 335-346, 2003) and Mandolino et al. (JIH, 8 (2): 51-72), as well as evidence from other authors, clearly indicate the simple mendelian nature of chemotype, determined by a single locus","PeriodicalId":319023,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Industrial Hemp","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117279800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}