U.S. teens smoke more marijuana, but back off other drugs -survey

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9. If you've ever watched Strain Hunters

Strain Hunters are a group in the Netherlands that make documentaries about their searches for landraces of cannabis strains.

They're part of a seed company and have often won awards at the Cannabis Cup for their cannabis hybrids. They demonstrate how people in the high mountains of Afghanistan created hashish rolled off their hands, how small villagers in various places produce hash blocks that are sold to European dealers, mostly, and they help these farmers to maintain their lands with these non-hybrid strains of cannabis.

No doubt there were very good strains of cannabis available in the past, but not to the degree that these same are now available with the advent of hybrid, indoor-grown cannabis in the U.S. and Europe. The reason, btw, for these higher THC strain is because Reagan began spraying poison on marijuana grown in Mexico. Our drug warriors poisoned the ground water for all people living below these fields yet had no impact upon the cultivation of cannabis itself - the growers moved inside and the Pacific Northwest and Amsterdam became the centers of a new industry devoted to high-potency hybrid cannabis.

Michael Pollan wrote a great story about this long ago. http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/how-pot-has-grown/