Places where Cannabis grows abundantly
Around the world, tons of Cannabis can be found growing without any human intervention
Around the world, tons of Cannabis can be found growing without any human intervention.
In a viral YouTube post from 2016, travel blogger Gabriel Morris revealed a hillside covered with marijuana plants in the Nepalese Himalayas.
The sight is not so uncommon in the land of Mount Everest. Cannabis is native to the Himalayas, and although the plant is illegal in India and Nepal, it thrives in hard-to-reach corners of the famous mountain range. Several Himalayan villages also make a living from Cannabis production, and when caught by authorities, they can claim that their Cannabis fields are natural.
Cannabis groves can be found similarly across Asia, from Pakistan to China. Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany, a 2013 scientific profile of the plant, even found examples of decorative Cannabis being cultivated alongside a public street in Kunming, China.
"Cannabis is highly adaptable and can grow and reproduce in a wide range of temperate habitats, even under extreme conditions," it said.
Marijuana can be found growing wild across northern Pakistan, where an untouched Cannabis bush can grow as tall as a one-story building. However, as with much of the world's native wild Cannabis, these plants often have low THC content and have little to no hallucinogenic effect if consumed.
In neighboring Afghanistan, the ease of growing marijuana in local soil (as well as the country's chaotic political situation) is partly how it became the world's largest Cannabis supplier in 2010.
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Cannabis used to grow wild in Europe, according to a recent study from the University of Vermont on fossil pollen. However, the plant had already begun to die out by the time Europeans began experimenting with agriculture - and there is no evidence that Neolithic humans discovered its psychoactive properties.
In Britain, at least, wild marijuana has begun to make a comeback. A group calling themselves "Feed the Birds" began sowing Cannabis seeds in English gardens and planters.
Wild Cannabis is even more widespread in North America. Although the plant is not native to the Western Hemisphere, wild Cannabis either escaped from early 20th-century industrial hemp farms or was intentionally planted by marijuana activists. Ironically, it seems to thrive best in conservative states like Iowa, Nebraska, or Kansas, where marijuana prohibitions are some of the strongest in the United States.
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Glenn Panik, a California-based medical marijuana blogger, wrote in 2014 about how wild Cannabis can often be seen among ground cover, particularly in urban areas like abandoned lots or construction sites.
"I even found a beautiful little plant with purple buds growing among yarrow and dandelions in front of a donut shop," he wrote.
In Canada, winters are a bit harsher for wild Cannabis, and the country does not have the same history of large-scale hemp cultivation as the United States. However, according to a 2002 article from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, all 10 provinces in Canada can boast some wild Cannabis spots.
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At the time, the reauthorization of hemp cultivation was expected to produce a fierce Canadian Cannabis explosion fueled by "escaped" seeds. With legal cultivation operations now opening across the country, Canada may well be entering the golden age of Cannabis.
Source: information from The Growth OP website