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Malawi Gold 2019 IBL
Malawi Gold 2019 IBL is a landrace cannabis accession from Malawi, listed as Malawi Gold in the seed catalogue of The Real Seed Company (RSC). RSC describes it as the original Afropips Malawi Gold heirloom, an inbred line of a tropical Sativa-type landrace grown for ganja. The Real Seed Company offers the line for sale on its Kwik Seeds site (checked 17 October 2026).
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Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts (1932–1935)
Studies in the Egyptian Medical Texts is a series of five philological articles by the English
Egyptologist Warren R. Dawson, published in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology between 1932 and 1935. The five parts carry twenty-four numbered entries, each taking a word from the Egyptian medical papyri whose sense was disputed and arguing for an identification. The subjects are plants, animals, minerals, contested words and named afflictions. Entry 11, in the third instalment, concerns cannabis: there Dawson argues that
the plant name he transliterates šmšmt denotes hemp.Whether cannabis is attested in pharaonic Egypt turns on that reading, which Dawson draws from the distribution of the prescriptions and from later Arabic medicine rather than from any statement the Egyptian texts make. As a work of philology the series is also evidence of how European Egyptology of the 1930s reconstructed the pharmacopoeia of the papyri, which places it in the history of the plant's documentation as much as in the record of the plant itself. read more →
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