Marijuana, also known as cannabis or weed, has a long history of human consumption. Most ancient cultures did not grow the plant to get high, but as herbal medicine, likely beginning in Asia around 500 BC. The history of cannabis cultivation in the United States dates back to the first settlers, who grew hemp for textiles and ropes. European settlers introduced hemp varieties to North America in the 1600s, which were replaced by Chinese varieties in the 1850s.
Researchers suggest that psychoactive cannabis spread from East Asia to India about 3000 years ago. In the last thousand years, drugs reached Latin America and Africa, although it did not reach North America until much more recently, at the beginning of the 20th century.These marijuana strains are believed to have originated in the early 1990s in the United States, before Dutch growers developed and popularized them on a large scale. Political and racial factors in the 20th century led to the criminalization of marijuana in the United States, although its legal status is changing in many places.Although strains can convey powerful or subtle messages, strain nomenclature can also be completely random. To improve the diversity and quality of strains in the future, careful selection and knowledge of strains from the past will be necessary.
Strain names that tell a story; whether it's potential effects, country of origin, combined genetic background, or producer's sense of humor, a strain's name is meaningful, even if that meaning is obscured.
