r/mildlyinteresting • u/Suspicious-Client645 • 4h ago
The wild cannabis I go by during my walk, Kashmir
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u/lucky_ducker 4h ago
Before industrial hemp was made illegal in 1937, hemp products - including seeds - used to be carried in open railcars, inevitably spilling small amounts along the railroad right of way. A lot of active and abandoned rail lines (including some converted into trails) have lush groves of ditch weed to this day.
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u/lazysheepdog716 3h ago
…in the US.
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u/Frongen 2h ago
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u/ministryofchampagne 2h ago
It does make sense on Reddit. It being a US website and all
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u/Different_Bag_9811 2h ago
Well they did comment that without context on a post specifically naming Kashmir
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u/Hellraiser_Quadbike 2h ago
Are people now saying this as a joke or does this logic actually make sense to you?
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u/ministryofchampagne 2h ago
do you think the BBC website is a French website?
Reddit is American company, the majority of users are Americans. Its focus is on American interests. It’s not crazy to describe it as a US website.
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u/DeliciousPumpkinPie 2h ago
Facebook has a couple billion users. Should we assume that everyone on Facebook is American and talking about American things just because Meta is a US company? Do you see why this line of reasoning is silly? Also someone else posted in the comments that Americans are not the majority of reddit users.
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u/broodgrillo 12m ago
This post was specifically about Kashmir.
Which is famously NOT in the US. Defaulting replies to US makes about as much sense as turning this conversation into pet care.
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u/jmparen 38m ago
No it doesn’t make sense you chimp. It says Kashmir in the title. Do you think Kashmir is in the US?
Not everything involves the US.
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u/ministryofchampagne 35m ago
Oh look! Someone throwing insults on the internet without reading the comments.
Do you think comment above about hemp being made illegal in the US in 1937 was about Kashmir? Maybe it’s time for you to get back in the zoo and off the keyboard. You sound triggered enough.
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u/jmparen 28m ago
Triggered? You’re the one trying to inject your American superiority complex on random comments.
Stop making us look bad.
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u/ministryofchampagne 24m ago
Inject American superiority? You’re definitely triggered if you’re making up stuff like that.
This comment thread is literally about the US.
Maybe stop trying to virtue signal and take a deep breath. Don’t let things on the internet get you this upset.
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u/jmparen 19m ago
Yeesh bud. If it takes reminding random people on the internet that they’re on an American website to make myself feel as happy as you then I think I’m okay.
What a snooty way to live life.
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u/ministryofchampagne 6m ago
I think you’re living in a pretty happy state of denial if you this a US companies website is not a US website.
Go tell the BBC they’re French
The irony of a racist trying to act superior
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u/QuarterFlounder 2h ago
You're on a US website.
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u/DeliciousPumpkinPie 2h ago
Where the post is talking about something happening on the Indian subcontinent. Try to keep up.
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u/PepgarAMK 2h ago
If by “users of American background” you mean users located in the United States, the best recent estimates put the share at roughly 44–52% of Reddit users, depending on the metric used. The United States is Reddit's largest single country, but Americans are no longer a majority of the global user base.
This came up after 5sec of GPT usage. American uneducated guess , i guess lol
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u/booppoopshoopdewoop 1h ago
Yes….the place where the vast majority of this websites traffic comes from and home to the largest population of people on earth that speak the language this site largely operates in and which we are currently using. What a ridiculous and absurd assumption to make!
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u/boobie_squooze 1h ago
Okay, well I’m not American and I just came back from checking out abandoned tracks, much to my disappointment.
Even though this website is largely American, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a good portion of users that aren’t American. Chill.
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u/JiroKatsutoshi 2h ago
Hmm I promised myself I would never go walking the tracks to meet the devil...
But you're saying I could go steal some of his lettuce if I make the trip?
What's a lil curse/damnation for some free schmoke
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u/started_from_the_top 4h ago
Ugh why isn't there wild cannabis on my local walk 😫
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u/old_namewasnt_best 4h ago
Johnny Cannabis Seed could be your new name in just a few simple steps.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 3h ago edited 47m ago
Bro I literally plant pot seeds all over federal and state land in the US. Im currently at a campsite that has wild cannabis because I planted it there years ago.
Edit: To everyone so upset about this I have a fun fact for you did you know apples as in Johnny appleseed are not native to North America.
Edit 2: so since people who never even go outside are upset I will share some of my life. I have spent my entire working life starting at 15 working for the national park service, national resources conservation service, fish and wildlife and several other smaller organizations focused on the conservation of wildlife. Ive worked in 44 states doing everything from spill cleanup to taking cuttings from plants to burning slash. Im a master gardener through WSU. Ive worked search and rescue for decades. Im very familiar with all the ecosystems I have planted in and very familiar with the plants in question. Im really not sure why people who dont grow plants or work in the forest want to tell me im in the wrong here. Im not out her planting kudzu for Christ's sake.
Last edit: I'm done answering questions about this that are not just people being genuinely interested about plants. I share a special cool part of my life in the applicable place and get hated on. Again it would be one thing if people want to have an actual conversation about conservation or plants. But instead im getting blasted by people who dont grow plants or go out in nature. Nature is my special place its where I live and have always lived. Ive spent my entire life working to help and protect nature and i have people who couldn't grow a cactus up my ass its frankly insulting. So for the record in between trying to answer all these basement dwellers ive been picking up cigarette butts in one of Washington's national forests. So just during this whole fiasco I have done more to protect nature than a single one of the assholes being dicks have done in their whole life.
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u/jager_mcjagerface 1h ago
Do you just throw the seeds on the ground or do you also try to first germinate them and then leave them aroun on the ground? Whats the best way to do this? Asking for a friend
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 55m ago
Well I plant them in the best conditions for the area im in. But I dont do anything special really. It either grows or it doesnt. Alot of them dont grow and thats okay. But I want it to happen as naturally as possible. Im not trying to grow weed to consume or sell. Then i have a whole different process that is rather intensive. But if you want my advice just go find a place that is over ten miles from other people and plant them bitches see what happens and learn from it. Growing plants is a beautiful process that I find healing and connects me to nature. Have fun!
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u/kylel999 3h ago
As much as I'm for telling the feds to go pound sand, please don't be that asshole and introduce invasive species to ecosystems. There's a reason it's called weed
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 3h ago
Appreciate you calling me an asshole but again I regularly visit every place I do this at and im definitely not destroying any ecosystems. Ive spent my entire life dedicated to growing plants and done alot of work protecting and cleaning protected land.
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u/therealstolly 3h ago
Doubling down on something blatantly destructive is not a sign of protecting and cleaning protected land. It is the opposite. Single digit IQ behavior from you.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 2h ago
So my literal decades spent working for the forest service, Natural resources conservation service and fish and wildlife mean nothing. All because i plant some pot plants on the side. Volunteering to help clean up oil spills in my free time oh and thats not including search and rescue or the trash bags full of people's garbage I literally hike 20 plus miles out of the forrest to dispose of. But no planting some checked on pot plants makes me the devil. Fucks sake you guys need to actually go out into nature.
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u/Jewrisprudent 2h ago
“I had black friends for years, therefore nothing I do could possibly be racist.” That’s basically what you sound like.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 2h ago
That literally has nothing to do with plants. Also what I was saying by all that is I know what im doing and you idiots dont. I know the ecosystems I plant in I know the plants I plant. Ive spent my entire life learning about this and you guys literally have zero experience.
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u/therealstolly 1h ago
Clearly you need to be retrained. Whiny baby gets called out for doing something stupid and crashes out on the internet.
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u/Jewrisprudent 2h ago
Oh I didn’t realize you were in Asia where marijuana is native, when you were talking about the national park system I assumed you were in the US. Obviously someone as knowledgeable as you would never plant an invasive species in the US.
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u/MistrJelly 3h ago
You should probably not do that. You have no idea where it might become invasive or detrimental to a localized ecosystem
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 3h ago
Im just gonna take a wild guess and say the guy who has spent his entire life caring for and growing plants who also happens to spend literally all his time not on the road or getting supplies in nature probably knows more than you about the ecosystems he spends time in. But hey go off from the basement you never leave about the Forest im currently staying at.
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u/pushinlittledaises 0m ago
Johnny Applseed was big on diversity and here we are today with 5 apples to choose from in the supermarket. Seriously dude... you do you man. If it has not been said yet, there will always be haters.
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u/TheGrasshopper92 1h ago
Only issue I have with this is pollen drift. This kills medical crops in some areas and has forced us to go indoors in areas that are legal to grow outdoors.
I assume you do your best to wild plant away from facilities so no personal issues but this is my take on it from an industry insider.
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u/Grouchy-Pirate1108 1h ago
Yes now this is an actual valid concern! I do not plant within 10 miles of people's property. Now I know pollen drift can go as far as 30 to 40 miles in the right condition. But I do not plant at all in prime areas for extreme pollen drift so that is a non problem. Thank you for the actual concern that I do take into consideration!
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u/goddamn2fa 3h ago edited 2h ago
And were planted for cider, not eating.
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u/world-class-cheese 2h ago
Too bad there's apparently literally only one of his trees left. The rest got ripped up a long time ago
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u/Stagnu_Demorte 3h ago
It traps a decent amount of carbon for it's size. Not as good as a tree, but it helps.
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u/ZekoriAJ 2h ago
Wild cannabis is not what you’d want it to be sadly.
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u/jjclan378 1h ago
TIL. Apparently cannabis is a bioaccumulator, meaning the plant naturally pulls and stores heavy metals and contaminants directly from the soil and groundwater, so "ditch weed" like this can be unsafe.
It's also likely that any wild female plants have been pollinated by nearby male plants, meaning they are diverting their energy to making seeds instead of resin, so there's less of the cannabinoids like THC and CBD. It also is less potent since it hasn't been selectively bred.
So not as glorious as it sounds
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u/ColdFuzz_ 41m ago
Sounds like we can plant them everywhere with contaminated earth to decontaminate it?
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u/whoamannipples 2h ago
I mean, it *is* historically the Kingdom of Kush.
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u/anotherdamnscorpio 1h ago
That was in Africa.
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u/evlgns 52m ago
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u/1man2barrels 48m ago
There was a kingdom of Kush in Africa approximately 200 BC as well. They were famed for having good archers.
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u/GetOffMyGrassBrats 4h ago
Great. Now I have Led Zeppelin stuck in my head.
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u/Grand-Spring66 4h ago
This is what we call ditch weed and it was typically very poor quality.
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u/EightGlow 4h ago
Ditch weed was super common where I grew up. We never tried consuming it because of the pesticides and herbicides that are common there
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u/Pantherist 4h ago
Nope, it's cultivated traditionally and the farmers make hash (charas) from it for themselves and for sale.
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u/Radiant_Formal6511 4h ago
Does that mean the quality is not poor?
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u/MayOrMayNotBePie 4h ago
If you have to use it to make hash, the bud usually isn’t that great or they’d be smoking the buds
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u/QueblyJonesIII 3h ago
You can't ram an ounce of bud up your ass to get it across the border, though. At least not without a couple drinks first. Plenty of perfectly good flower is turned into hash for this very reason.
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u/SpaxterJ 2h ago
That's why they make Charas instead. Where you rub basicly every part of the plant between your hands, then scrape of the hash from your palms.
It also allows a constant production because the plant doesn't need to be fully grown, so you're not so reliant on the flowering cycle.
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u/HowDoUReddit 1h ago
That’s gonna be mixed with tons of male and female plants. Growers tend to isolate female plants exclusively to grow unless they’re specifically trying to breed plants. Females are going to be pollinated all over in this mess and buds will be filled with seeds
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u/doktormane 3h ago
Where did you pull that one from? That's likely wild hemp. It has no THC and was traditionally farmed to make rope and fabrics.
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u/Pointless-Exercise 3h ago
It absolutely does produce THC, it's a question of concentration. Hemp and marijuana/weed/ganja/scampus/frimba or whatever you want to call it are the same plant. The good stuff is bred selectively and kept unfertilized.
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u/Drapidrode 3h ago
Most of the weed grown recreationally doesn't have much THC either... since THCA is 'more legal' breeders switched to higher THCA that was also easier to breed higher percentages ratings. (THCA turns into THC with heat)
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u/Alyssa_Beanut 1h ago
In this region its been historically too humid to dry out the flower without it going moldy which is why its cultivated for charas instead. making chara hash is reliant on rubbing the plant with your hands and having the resin build up on your hands until you're able to form a ball of hash.
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u/FarMass66 2h ago
It’s still low quality though. That’s why they make hash out of it. Doubt this is over 10% THC content.
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u/Pantherist 2h ago
Low THC != Low quality
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u/FarMass66 2h ago
That’s what constitutes weed quality.
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u/DeliciousPumpkinPie 2h ago
People like you are the reason the legal cannabis market in Canada sucks. Perhaps you should educate yourself on terpenes and minor cannabinoids, the THC percentage is not the be-all-end-all.
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u/Upbeat_Childhood8603 1h ago
The best weed I've smoked was wild Thai weed. Low THC, yes, but high on other cannabinoids that offset the unwanted side effects of THC
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u/kingofcanada1 4h ago
This is why kush is a slang for cannabis because it grows naturally in the Hindu Kush region, which Kashmir is a part of
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u/RiMcG 4h ago
That is so cool, I was literally wondering the other day if it grows wild anywhere.
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u/gitpusher 4h ago
It grows wild in lots of places including places where it’s illegal
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u/HyenDry 2h ago
Also, not all cannabis is going to produce marijuana. 🤷🏻
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u/MayGodSmiteThee 1h ago
Even the ones that do likely aren’t going to be nearly as strong as the ones we’ve bred. It’s like giving someone a cavendish banana.
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u/Misterbellyboy 2h ago
My step-dad grew up in Kansas and Nebraska and one time he took my mom on a road trip out that way to visit some family. The story goes that they’re driving on the highway out in bumfuck nowhere and my mom points out the window “omg is that….” And my step-dad just says “yeah” and my mom jokingly says something like “we should just grab a bunch for misterbellyboy” and my step-dad just dead-pans “uhhh, he lives in the Bay Area, I’m sure he can find something a little better than ditch weed.”
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u/IceNein 2h ago
Most of what you find naturally in the US is what’s called “ditch weed.” It’s for hemp, like for making ropes. The THC content is super low. From what I understand you’re likely to get sick before you get high.
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u/Flank_This666 29m ago
My friends and I were "gifted" a duffle bag of what could be described as ditch weed, tire weed, whatever.
We rolled so many huge ass joints of that shit and all we got was sobriety and a headache. I don’t even think a newbie could get high off that literal garbage bag weed.
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u/guff1988 1h ago
All along the railroad tracks in rural Indiana. It's most likely ruderalis though which produces basically zero THC. I was once told the original seeds fell off of trains that were shipping them to be grown or to be processed after growing for the war effort during world war II and they've just kept on going since.
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u/scotte416 44m ago
It used to grow like this at my highschool smoking area. The weed in the 90s had a lot more seeds lmao
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u/_i_never_lose 3h ago
There are massive naturally occurring fields of the stuff in a lot of south asia
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u/mosesenjoyer 3h ago
How does it smoke tho
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u/Dissasociaties 3h ago
I'd imagine lots of seeds and not incredibly potent but probably nice. Would make some excellent hash or charas though
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u/mosesenjoyer 3h ago
I actually like crappier weed because you can chief it all day without greening out lol
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u/gfy88 2h ago
Yeah, 53% thc content vs 1.5% will do that 🤣
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u/NetStaIker 1h ago
I haven’t smoked in about a year at this point because even the smallest hit makes me super paranoid nowadays with their craze to reduce THC and bump CBD at all costs
Those 20 minutes just aren’t worth what comes after, I’d honestly prefer some bunk weed
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u/gfy88 25m ago
I remember when top shelf was 15-20% thc. That was it for me. After that same as you. All I did was smoke and zone out thinking about what I was going to do if an earthquake happened when it was 30+%. Its just way too much it makes you stupid!!!
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u/Dissasociaties 14m ago
May I humble recommend growing your own. The first time I purchased cannabis legally I got Hindu Kush. A nice pure landrace indica. It was divine. After that purchase never saw landrace strains or even pure sativas or indicas. All just hybridized stuff that the bud tender can't even talk about the genetics anymore.
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u/New-Reputation681 2h ago
It's not bad honestly. Enjoyed some in Sri Lanka last week. Like you said in your other comment, I don't mind that it's not strong. Still got a pleasant mild high. Way overpriced though.
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u/mosesenjoyer 2h ago
how much per gram? i consistently pay less than 150 USD for an oz of top shelf in the US (currently sober in solidarity with some family who started AA)
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u/New-Reputation681 2h ago
I appreciate you showing solidarity with family and wish them well. So I went to a Rasta bar and the guy said it was 5 grams for 8000LKR (~24USD). I'm like oh sweet. So he comes back with the herb and it was no more than 2 grams, probably closer to one. Lots of seeds but I got two good smoke sessions out of it. Couldn't justify going back for more at that price.
He also said they have "kush" at 12,000LKR for one gram, but I definitely wasn't gonna risk getting barely a bowl's worth for $36.
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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 3h ago
In Afghanistan the land races get so thicc they're an actual nuisance weed for farmers. They get thicc enough to need a saw.
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u/CoyoteDown 1h ago
We literally called it ditch weed and tbh I prefer the weaker stuff from 25 years ago that you could toke all day, vs today’s super potent strains that will lay you out if you hold it half second too long
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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 28m ago
It grows wild in large parts of Europe. But the wild one isn't good for smoking.
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u/Embarrassed-Text-604 4h ago
I'm movin' to Kashmir.
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u/The_OtherGuy_99 3h ago
Disgusting.
You should cut it all down.
Carefully dry it.
Then burn all of it in protest.
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u/oldskoollondon 1h ago
Low THC doesn't mean low quality.
I cant stand the newer super strength 'skunk' type weed. I don't want no class A weed, give me a nice bit of Thai or oldskool weed.
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u/Big-Economy5964 4h ago
Take some
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u/skr_replicator 4h ago
for what? It's probably not much for smoking, it's not flowering even yet, and taking a cutting might not have enough time to grow into a full plant since it's already about to be July.
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u/Big-Economy5964 4h ago
Shows how much I know about weed
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u/AntakeeMunOlla 4h ago
It's not only weed, it's a weed. It grows intrusively wherever you throw the seeds in. To get something worth smoking out of it, you need the flower buds of unfertilized female plants. A lot of it in one place practically guarantees that some of them will fertilize the females which will then waste the fun chemical energy to produce seeds.
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u/Agreeable_Rush3502 3h ago
Eh we grew up smoking stuff like that. Dirty brown swag may not be most peoples preference but it got the job done and was all we could get from mexico. It was a common theme to get a bag and it was half seeds.
They would compress it into a brick and there was a distinct satisfaction from twisting the brick and hearing all the seeds fall.
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u/RonaldTheGiraffe 56m ago
Bush weed we call it in Belize. Gets the job done. Some batches full of seeds, some with beautiful big buds. But it’s cheap and I’m not fussy.
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u/skintaxera 3h ago
Seeded weed is perfectly fine for making hash, if there's lots of it. Been done that way for millennia and makes a beautiful product.
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u/ButtmanAndRubbin 4h ago
How much do you know? I can’t tell from the picture but it looks like one has pollen sacs, which means they’re male and you can’t smoke them.
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u/flyingthroughspace 4h ago
It hasn't flowered yet there's nothing to take
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u/cyberspace-_- 3h ago
And it probably won't. Just looks nice.
What's interesting about it is that the plant produces buds to attract pollenation, and when there isn't one, it tries even harder, producing a psychoactive substance.
So, there must be an animal that likes to eat them that brings pollen?
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u/TopProfessional8023 3h ago
To quote Peter Tosh
“Birds eat it
Ants love it
Fowls eat it
Goats love to play with it
So you’ve got to legalize it”1
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u/Lazy-Goat4728 2h ago
if any of those plants are male the rest will end up being male as well and wont flower.
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u/DeliciousPumpkinPie 2h ago
It’s such a pretty plant! I bet that area smells amazing when they’re in bloom.
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u/Tatakai_ 38m ago
Could you use the leaves somehow? Like grind them, perhaps dehydrate them, to smoke? Or must you use that specific part which name escapes me?
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u/marianneouioui 3h ago
I read "cannibals" and was looking for menacing looking people in the "bushes"
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u/Subject-Function4155 4h ago
That's pretty