| The Five Oddest Places to Find Cannabis Seeds | | | | route out and burn down the crop, people are planting |
| There are some places in the world where you would | | | | and growing cannabis at a rate that’s faster than |
| expect to find cannabis seeds, joints and hash cakes; | | | | they can destroy it. |
| finding a spliff in Amsterdam, late night comedy | | | | 3. In Granny’s Bag |
| writer’s rooms and the green room for Bob Marley | | | | You may think "Sweet old Gran" would never have |
| and the Wailers wouldn’t be much of a surprise. | | | | anything even slightly illegal or interesting, but you may |
| Like a duck to water, cannabis just goes naturally | | | | be wrong. Marijuana is often championed for its pain |
| together with some places and images. It just seems | | | | relieving qualities, and was (and in some places still is) |
| natural. But what about the places you wouldn’t | | | | prescribed as a form of pain relief for many illnesses. |
| expect? There are some instances of marijuana | | | | The increase of silver surfers on the internet and the |
| turning up that you wouldn’t have imagined in your | | | | availability of cannabis seeds over the web has meant |
| entire life. We have a look at the oddest places you | | | | an increase of marijuana use among the elderly. So if |
| could think to find cannabis and cannabis seeds… | | | | you were to root around, you may well find that |
| 5. Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the People’s | | | | Granny has more than just Werther’s originals at |
| Republic of China | | | | the bottom of her bag… |
| Whole countries rather than specific places, Malaysia, | | | | 2. In your drink |
| Thailand, Singapore and the People’s Republic of | | | | Putting cannabis seeds or straight weed in your drink |
| China are the last places you would look for weed. Or, | | | | may seem very odd, but it’s not as crazy as it |
| to be more accurate, they are the last places you | | | | sounds. Many guides and cookbooks that have |
| would want to find weed. These countries (and some | | | | sections of culinary uses for the drug suggest uses in |
| others) have particularly harsh responses to most | | | | your libation, creating a "Green Dragon". It would be |
| kinds of drug use, marijuana being one of the drugs | | | | odd (and more than a little worrying) to find it in your |
| that you can be executed for having! While many | | | | drink if you hadn’t wanted it there or known that it |
| people still import and export cannabis from these | | | | was, but as a personal choice the ‘experts’ say |
| countries, most people wouldn’t even think about | | | | it’s "Odd, but good". |
| running the risk, thinking it odd to have the drug there | | | | 1. On the president’s desk |
| when in other countries it’s almost completely legal. | | | | Ok, so it’s unlikely that any president (other than |
| 4.In an Open Field – in America | | | | that of a banana republic) is going to plant marijuana |
| America has one of the least open or forward thinking | | | | seeds in a pot and let them grow on his or her desk |
| policies on cannabis and cannabis seeds (though that | | | | as an indoor plant. But presidents and officials are |
| may change soon). You would therefore think that it | | | | more and more likely to have – or admit to having |
| would be one of the last places to have vast open | | | | – planted, grown, harvested or smoked (or at least |
| fields sown with cannabis seeds, but you’d be | | | | inhaled) weed. Unlike Bill Clinton’s famous "I smoked |
| wrong. In one part of the country, orders for marijuana | | | | but I did not inhale" line, current incumbent Barack |
| seeds are through the roof. The Emerald Triangle in | | | | Obama has stated that he "did inhale. That was the |
| northern California is the nation’s largest grower of | | | | point! |
| marijuana plants, and though the authorities routinely | | | | |