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Muang Sing treats Sing District, in Luang Namtha Province, as a cannabis growing area: the source of the seed line sold as Lao Highland. It sits in the Northern Laos growing region. The district as an administrative unit is Sing District.

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Why the area is on the map

• Khalifa Genetics' listing for Lao Highland Tribe: a landrace of northern Laos grown by Akha people, its seed collected at source by the breeder Bodhi in 2014. It names no place below "northern Laos".
• ACE Seeds' listing for Lao Highland (Spanish edition): the same account, and its own seed described as a third-generation open-pollinated sativa "procedente de Muang Sing, en el norte de Laos".
• The accession KHA-LAO-LNA-0120140001 (Khalifa Genetics' seed), whose point (21.27, 101.10) lies in Sing District.
• Both are seed companies, and both statements are attributed in the article. The page rests on one place name, Muang Sing, given by a seller of the line; no other source read places cannabis growing in the district.

Growing status

The status is Active: both companies say that the seed was collected at source in 2014, and Khalifa Genetics says that Akha people grow the line. No source gives a year when growing began or says that it has ended.

How the border is drawn

• The border is a proxy, drawn on one administrative unit: Sing District (OpenStreetMap relation 5831771), about 1,270 km², the figure in the infobox. Muang Sing is the town and valley that give the district its name, and ACE Seeds names no village, so the district is the smallest unit that holds the statement.
• The accession's point lies inside it.
• The border is not drawn from accession or news points.

The name

The page takes the name the seller uses, Muang Sing (the town and valley; muang is a Lao word for a town or district). The district as an administrative unit takes the title Sing District, the form already on the accession.

Sources

The two seller listings were read in full in copies saved on 12 October 2026 (Khalifa Genetics in English; ACE Seeds in English and Spanish). Two traveller accounts of ganja offered for sale in Muang Sing (a 2002 travel essay and a travel-guide line) describe sale, not growing, and are not used. Studies of drug use and opium replacement in Muang Sing district by Paul Cohen and Chris Lyttleton, and two development reports on drug use and production in the district's villages (2002 and 2003), were not read.