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Page scope

Weining treats Weining County, in north-western Guizhou, as a cannabis growing area. It has no growing region above it.

Data verification

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Discussion

Why the area is on the map

• Li and colleagues (2026), Table S1: the hemp landrace CZ32, from Weining, collected in 2020. It is the only source on the page that names a hemp crop in the county.
• The Weining police notice of October 2026: six cannabis plants, which the notice says had been planted.

Growing status

The status is Active: the landrace seed was collected in 2020, and the plants cleared in 2026 had been planted by people the police reprimanded. The notice does not call the plants wild, and the article does not either.

How the border is drawn

• The border follows Weining Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Bijie, Guizhou, China, as mapped in OpenStreetMap (relation 2780072, read 22 October 2026). On the west and south it stops at the Yunnan provincial line.
• The elevation and land-cover rules used for other hubs (ground above 4,000 m, and land that ESA WorldCover 2021 maps as bare, snow and ice or open water, left out at the edge) take out less than 0.5% of the county, so the border is the county's own line. Caohai lake is inside it.
• Check points inside the border: Weining. Outside it: Bijie, Zhaotong.
• Where this border meets Yunnan, the two share one line.

The name

The page takes the name of the county, Weining (威宁), Hosie's Wei-ning Chou.

Hosie's "hemp"

Hosie (1890) writes only that the Miao men north-east of Wei-ning wore "coarse hempen clothes"; he does not name the plant. In his consular report of 1904 on Sichuan he separates true hemp (Huo Ma) from Abutilon (T'ung Ma) and ramie, which the trade also called hemp, so the passage of 1890 does not establish that the cloth was cannabis. The article gives his words, attributed, and nothing more.

Accessions inside the border

No herbarium sheet or seed lot on the wiki was collected inside the border.

Sources

• Li and colleagues (2026), Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis: the paper and its Table S1. They call their lots landraces of hemp achenes and give each one's county; the article attributes both.
• Hosie (1890), Three Years in Western China, cited in the second edition of 1897; the passage is indexed under "hempen clothes".
• The Weining notice (21 October 2026), from the Guizhou and Bijie narcotics-control accounts and the Weining County narcotics-control office, reposted on Sohu. It names no village or school.