Big Sur could become the cannabis world’s Champagne.
Source: Hunting for the world’s most mythical cannabis: Big Sur Holy Weed
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For 10 days in October 1969, traffic across the southern U.S. border with Mexico was nearly completely halted while the Nixon administration conducted “Operation Intercept.” Authorities stopped millions of vehicles and travelers while they conducted “ten days of relentless warfare on the smuggling of marijuana and dangerous drugs across the Mexican border,” according to an October 1969 New York Times story.
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This coincided with the rise of a new growing technique, in which farmers started killing all of the male plants in their gardens, creating sexually frustrated females that grew larger, oilier and more potent flowers. The technique is called sinsemilla, which comes from the Spanish for “without seed,” because it creates unpollinated cannabis flower that lacks any seeds. The LA Times story reported on sinsemilla with incredulousness, writing that “apparently it works.”
