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Introduction
George Watt (1851–1930). His herbarium sheets are signed G. Watt, the label form by which a biography claims the specimens it collected.
People and organisations covers those who collected, documented, published or conserved the material this wiki records. A herbarium sheet names its collector, a report names its author and a seed accession names whoever gathered it. Most of those names have no article yet.
The people are collectors and botanists, revenue officers and physicians, the authors of the sources and the compilers of the gazetteers. The organisations are the herbaria and botanic gardens holding the specimens, the seed companies and collectives circulating living material and the government bodies whose enquiries produced much of the documentary record.
Biographies here are written from published sources. Each states what a person collected, where and when they worked and how their work is cited. Where a colonial official's own language shapes the record it is quoted and attributed rather than adopted.
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Organization
Full Power Selections, written FullPower Selections on its own website, is an online shop that sells cannabis seed, books and merchandise. Most of the seed lines it lists as landrace carry the names of entries in the "genetic library" of the Indian Landrace Exchange, and it sells that group's tour books, which its catalogue describes as "written and published by Indian Landrace Exchange". It also sells crosses of its own, which it calls landrace hybrids.
Did you know...
From the biographies
- ...that 1170 accessions on this wiki name a collector, while 15 collectors have a biography here, among them George Watt and Walter Norman Koelz?
- ...that a biography claims its specimens through the name written on the sheet rather than the name on the page, so George Watt is linked to his collections by the label form G. Watt and Walter Norman Koelz by W. N. Koelz?
- ...that the two official enquiries into Bengal ganja were written by Hem Chunder Kerr, an Indian officer of the Government of Bengal, in 1877, and by David Prain, a Scottish botanist of the Indian Medical Service, in 1893?
- ...that Hem Chunder Kerr had already compiled an official report on jute, in 1874, before he was set to work on ganja?
- ...that Walter Norman Koelz collected plants, birds and ethnographic material across South Asia and Iran over twenty-three years, from 1930 to 1953?
- ...that George Watt was a physician by training, and compiled A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India between 1885 and 1893 while in the service of the Government of India?
Selected picture
In the field
Walter Norman Koelz in Lahul, in the western Himalaya, during the collecting years that produced his Indian herbarium series
Who is here
By what they did
- Collectors
- Angus Pretty · David Hummel · Francis Buchanan-Hamilton · George Watt · Junpei Sato · Maynard Ward Quimby · Nathaniel Wallich · Nikolai Vavilov · Richard Evans Schultes · Robert Wight · Roland Edgar Cooper · Timothy Charles Plowman · Walter Norman Koelz · William Griffith · William Richard Carles
- Botanists
- David Prain · Francis Buchanan-Hamilton · George Watt · Junpei Sato · Maynard Ward Quimby · Nathaniel Wallich · Nikolai Vavilov · Richard Evans Schultes · Robert Wight · Timothy Charles Plowman · Walter Norman Koelz · William Griffith
- Authors & administrators
- Carlton E. Turner · Coy Webster Waller · David Prain · Hem Chunder Kerr · Junpei Sato · Mahmoud A. ElSohly · Maynard Ward Quimby · Nikolai Vavilov · Norman John Doorenbos · Richard Evans Schultes · Timothy Charles Plowman · William Richard Carles
- Physicians & ethnographers
- David Hummel · David Prain · Francis Buchanan-Hamilton · George Watt · Nathaniel Wallich · Robert Wight · William Griffith
- Seed companies
- ACE Seeds · ATAO Genetics · Afropips · Cannabiogen · Coco Genes · Delicorganic · Derg Corra Collective · East Africa Genes · Full Power Selections · Hippie Cannabis Genetics · Indian Landrace Exchange · Khalifa Genetics · Landrace Bureau · Landrace Mafia · Paklandrace Exchange · The Landrace Team · The Real Seed Company
- Collectives
- Vibes Collective · Zomia Collective
- Herbaria & research institutions
- Forest Herbarium (BKF) · INRA Maroc · Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle · Phylos Bioscience · Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh · Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · Swedish Museum of Natural History · University of Mississippi
- Government bodies
- Forest Herbarium (BKF) · International Narcotics Control Board · Swedish Museum of Natural History
- Political movements
- Free Aceh Movement
- Smuggling rings
- Black Tuna Gang
- Smugglers
- Robert Meinster · Robert Platshorn
- Campaigners
- Robert Platshorn
- Wanted: more herbaria
- Wanted: the authors
Things you can do
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Help identify the people behind the record
- Write a collector: more than ninety collectors are named across the accessions and nearly all are redlinks. Start with those holding the most material
- Record the label form: a new biography only claims its specimens once
collector_namecarries the name as the sheet writes it - Title with the full name: George Watt, not G. Watt. Initials and label forms become redirects to the article
- Write the institutions: most of the herbaria, botanic gardens and surveys that hold this material have no pages yet
- Fill the source authors: the names on the title pages in Sources are mostly still redlinks
- Source living people carefully: only what has been published and bears on the record. No addresses, no coordinates and nothing a seller has not made public themselves
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54 with an article
Seed company
Rocafort, Valencia, Spain
Preservation, breeding and sale of pure cannabis varieties
Seed company
France
Regular seed of lines it maintains (chiefly a Mazar-i-Sharif line) and of hybrids bred from them
Collector
The Real Seed Company
Landrace cannabis seed collected in South and Southeast Asia; cannabis seed given to the USDA National Plant Germplasm System
Smuggling ring
Miami, Florida, United States
A ring based in Miami that bought marijuana on the Caribbean coast of Colombia in the 1970s and brought it into the United States by sea and air; its leaders were convicted in 1980.
Seed company
Pedrezuela, Madrid, Spain
Cannabis seed of collected lines and hybrids bred from them; plant nutrient products
Administrator, Author
University of Mississippi, White House Drug Abuse Policy Office · American
Director of the University of Mississippi marijuana project in the 1970s; drug abuse policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, 1981–1986
Seed company
Southern California (US distribution) and India (headquarters)
Collection and sale of cannabis seed from Indian villages and regions
Administrator, Author
University of Mississippi · American
The 1968 marijuana research programme of the National Institute of Mental Health; Marihuana: an annotated bibliography (1976, 1982)
Collector, Physician
wikipedia:Sino-Swedish Expedition · Swedish
Plant and animal collections of the Sino-Swedish Expedition
Administrator, Botanist, Physician
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Botanical Survey of India, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, wikipedia:Indian Medical Service · British
Report on the Cultivation and Use of Gánjá
Seed company
Reproductions of old, rare and wild-collected cannabis lines (its own account)
Seed company
Nairobi, Kenya (its own account)
Seed of cannabis lines from East and Central Africa, which it sells as landrace sativas
Government body, Herbarium
Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand
Thailand's forest herbarium (BKF), which holds Thai Cannabis sheets collected from 1933 onwards and carries out the inventory for the Flora of Thailand
Botanist, Collector, Physician
Calcutta Botanic Garden, East India Company · British
Surveys of Mysore (1800–1801), Nepal (1802–1803) and Bengal and Bihar (1807–1814)
Political movement
Aceh, Indonesia; leadership in exile in Sweden
Acehnese independence movement, 1976–2005, whose part in the cannabis economy of Aceh was alleged by the Indonesian state and denied by the movement
Seed company
Seed of cannabis lines from South and Central Asia, books and merchandise of the Indian Landrace Exchange
Botanist, Collector, Physician
Bengal Education Department, Department of Revenue and Agriculture, Government of India · British
A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India
Administrator, Author
Report on the Cultivation of, and Trade in, Gánjá in Bengal (1877)
Seed company
Flint, Michigan, United States (its own account)
Regular seed of landrace, heirloom and "vintage" lines, some dated to the year of their collection
Seed company
Seed of cannabis lines from South, Central and Southeast Asia, documented on its website and sold through other seed companies
Government body
Vienna, Austria
Treaty body set up under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs that monitors states' compliance with the international drug control conventions
Author, Botanist, Collector
Liaoyang County guidance farm, Port Arthur botanical garden · Japanese
Plant collections from Manchuria; 漢薬の原植物 (1959), on the plant sources of Chinese drugs
Seed company
Dublin, Ireland
Sale of cannabis seed: its own hybrids and lines sold as landraces
Seed company
Spain
Sale of cannabis seed, both lines it sells as landraces or feral populations and hybrids of its own breeding
Seed company
Seed of cannabis lines from the Indian Himalaya, Nepal, eastern India and Thailand, sold as landraces
Administrator, Author
ElSohly Laboratories, University of Mississippi
Director of the University of Mississippi marijuana project from 1981; the Potency Monitoring Program
Author, Botanist, Collector
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi · American
The University of Mississippi's medicinal plant garden; herbarium sheets of its cannabis plantings, 1968–1971
Herbarium, Research institution
Paris, France
French natural history museum whose herbarium (P) holds the holotype of Cannabis indica
Botanist, Collector, Physician
Calcutta Botanic Garden, East India Company · Danish
The East India Company's herbarium and its Numerical List
The Seed Bank, a mail-order cannabis seed business in the Netherlands, 1980s; sale of G-13
Author, Botanist, Collector
All-Union Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), Bureau of Applied Botany, Saratov Higher Agricultural Classes · Russian
Collecting expeditions for crop plants; centres of origin of cultivated plants; the cannabis names var. spontanea, f. afghanica and var. kafiristanica
Administrator, Author
Auburn University, Southern Illinois University, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Mississippi, University of Wisconsin · American
The 1968 federal marijuana contract at the University of Mississippi
Author, Botanist, Collector
Botanical Museum of Harvard University, Harvard University Herbaria · American
Ethnobotany of psychoactive plants; the three-species treatment of Cannabis (1974)
Smuggler
American
Partner in the Black Tuna Gang, convicted in 1980 of running a continuing criminal enterprise and sentenced to 53 years; released in 2005.
Campaigner, Smuggler
American
Partner in the Black Tuna Gang, convicted in 1980 and sentenced to 64 years; after his release in 2008 he campaigned among older Floridians for medical cannabis.