Is Ganja from outer space?

 

As someone who is fascinated with all things extraterrestrial I have often gazed at the night skies searching for answers to serious questions like ‘Where do we come from’ and ‘where are we hoping to go?’

The first time I realized that there is a good possibility that Ganja comes from outer space was in high school in the 1980’s when I acquired a T shirt with an alien on the front with the caption “Take me to your dealer!” I still see those T shirts around! And the second time was when I learned that bees are not affected by THC. It was a deep connection that still fascinates me to this day and I can’t remember now if it was the bees or the ganja that I first thought came from outer space but now I believe that both do.

As a young herbalist I learnt from my Rastafari teachers how to extract this medicine into honey and the results were and still are mind blowing when I think of the healings we were achieving with honey-infused ganja medicine as far back as the late 1970’s.

We know from the teachings of French Bee keeper Nicholas Trainer (not his real name) that despite the fact that bees are the only creatures on earth that do not have endocannabinoid receptors, he was able to train his bees to harvest resin from the female flowers as well as the male pollen and produce Ganja Honey that is produced in different shades of green and yellow and contains the magical hive-substance known as propolis.

According to the Dutch Passion Seed Company’s review the honey was analyzed and presented with 30 mg THC per 10 grams of honey. https://dutch-passion.com/en/blog/the-bees-that-make-cannabis-honey-n766

“Analysis of the honey shows 30mg of THC in every 10g of honey. The honey itself has a green color to it, Dutch Passion were lucky enough to get a small pot of cannabis honey from Nicholas. The honey tastes as sweet as normal, but the taste is of freshly harvested cannabis - which makes sense since the cannabis didn't have time to dry before the bees gathered resin from it. It was a delicious treat for any cannabis fan. We didn’t get very stoned from a small taste of the cannabis honey, but Nicholas explained you need a couple of spoonfulls to get the best effect from it.”

Introducing Jason King author of 3 volumes of The Cannabible

Jason King started his ganja career because of the lack of solid information on different strains. I love his work because the first thing that struck me was the amazing photography and then I learnt that he is the photographer! Really talented he is in the way he has captured over 250 amazing strains some of which I have been blessed to have sampled. His knowledge is well portrayed as an art in his 3 volumes of The Cannabible and we give thanks for his contribution to Cannabis education.

Getting back to outer space and extraterrestrial life, I would love to share a segment from Volume 3 that directly addresses the topic of extraterrestrial origins of our beloved herb.

 “ARE YOU SIRIUS? By Jason King Cannabible #3

Take a look at the word cannabis ever wonder what it means? Cannabis is a Greek word though its root is Africa. In Greek canna means canine or dog and bis or bi is the number 2

So cannabis is the two dog plant that in itself is interesting to me but the pot thickens.

There is a cannabis-loving tribe in Mali West Africa called the Dogon Tribe. A fairly well documented group the Dogons were visited by Herodotus a Greek traveler and chronicler around 300 BCE.

He was fortunate enough to have visited the Dogons during a year-long celebration that would make the Cannabis cup seem pretty weak!

That took place every 50 years. Explaining their celebration the Dogons pointed to the brightest star- in the winter sky Sirius and said it was the two dog -star and that it was the home of the two dog plant, Cannabis.

The two-dog -plant they said was brought to our planet by the goddess from the two dog star. Their year-long celebration was in honor of that star. All of this would be easy to dismiss if not for the fact that the Dogons possessed specific knowledge about the Sirian system for thousands of years before scientists with modern telescopes and equipment could catch up and prove them right. The Dogons had specific knowledge about Sirius B a white dwarf star, which they call Po TOLO.

They knew that it was white, that it was extremely small and that it was the heaviest star in its grouping (as it turns out, its three hundred times denser than diamonds).

They were able to describe its elliptical orbit with Sirius  A. its 50 year orbital period and the fact that the star rotated on its own axis.

Sirius B is invisible to the naked eye and is so difficult to observe even through a telescope that no known photographs were taken of it until 1970.

They also described a third star in the Sirius system which they called Emme Ya In 1995 when two French astronomers published the results of a multiyear study of what was apparently a small red dwarf star within the Sirius system, the Dogon idea of there being a Sirius C aka Emme Ya was suddently taken much more seriously. If the Dogons were correct in all of their other knowledge about Sirius why would they not be dead on with their claims of cannabis being from Sirius?

It is after all, named after that two dog star! Think about it.

The Dogons were celebrating the fifty year orbital period of the Sirius system for thousands of years before astronomers could even detect Sirius B. how did they know this?

The Dogons claim that their astronomical knowledge was given to them by the Nommo, amphibious beings sent to Earth from Sirius for the benefit of mankind.

Could all of this potentially explain the astounding diversity within the cannabis gene pool?

Speaking specifically of flavors there are cannabis strains with flavors ranging from the sweetest fruit all the way to foul rotten meat (in a good way, if that is somehow possible) from astringent pine cleaner to chocolate to kids vitamins. I have tasted ganja strains that mimicked every fruit on the planet, including strawberry grape peach lemon lime plum raspberry blueberry guava blackberry mango cherry orange banana pineapple melons and more. Iv also tasted flavors reminiscent of just about every herb used in cooking including mint, basil sage rosemary and thyme. This amazing variety of familiar flavors is well documented in the Cannabible series but you may have noticed that on occasion I find myself at a loss for words when providing tasting notes. There we enter the realm of all the outer space flavors that words do not exist for; because there are no other similar flavors found on earth and thus no accurately descriptive words. I find that about half of the really good strains out there have these otherworldly flavors.

What if these strains and flavors really are from outer space? What if cannabis is a plant highly regarded and traded not just on our planet but throughout the universe? I picture cannabis as a miraculous plant that grows on thousands of planets throughout the universe and is introduced to suitable planets by benevolent beings such as the Nommo, to help spread the love’ are you with me?”

Wowzo! Give thanks Jason King, what a legendary tale! This is exactly the type of stuff children’s fantasy movies are made of and personally I don’t really need any scientific or other ‘evidence’ as proof of African Cosmology in this day and age. I enjoy a good tale and I embrace it all in the same way as “Indaba My Children” by Vusamazulu C. Mutwa.

Although I will tell you that I know of many African folk who will ask us why we are even discussing what African’s call ganja because definitely no Africans say ‘Cannabis’. Instead my African Idren will tell you straight up that that word is for Babylon scientists and police and I completely agree. In Africa we call the plant ganja, dagga, herb or weed. These are words that stem from our First Nations tribes from all over the world.

The earliest record of ganja outside of Egypt is from 14^th century Ethiopia and this is also an early link between ganja and Rastafari. From Ethiopia the seeds were taken south by Bantu-speaking people who spread the seeds to the Bushmen and the Hottentots. Legend states that the Bantu people also believed that dagga came to us from the gods of the ‘Two-Dog Star’.

I think that Jason is really onto something big in his research and I have always suspected that the people who claim to control this world have always known what comes from outer space and what is indigenous to Earth. The plant of many names, ganja, marijuana, weed, the human companion plant…the THC plant,…the Two-Dog-plant…is certainly no ordinary plant and that this plant also occupies such a unique role in human culture is more proof of the extraordinary properties of this mystical plant of renown.

The very first Cannabis Genome Map detailing gene arrangement on the chromosomes was published on 8 November 2018 in the Journal Genome Research 

The Cannabis genome map was the first and highly anticipated study that reveals the history of the evolution of ganja. You can take a look at this report for more information on the map. https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2018/worlds-first-cannabis-chromosome-map-reveals-the-plants-evolutionary-history

The evolution of ganja is mostly a mystery, and there are still no known evolutionary ancestors but scientists tend to agree that it is most likely that ganja split from its closest botanical relative being the hops plant about 27 million years ago. On the cannabinoid spectrum, of particular interest to me is the way the gene sequences for THCA and CBDA are almost identical. This proves that they both come from the same original gene before it was duplicated to evolve independently. You can follow the story on this link https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2018/11/07/gr.242594.118.abstract

In my book Cannabis is The Human Companion plant I refer to ganja as “the plant whisperer of human DNA because of the ongoing transmission to our DNA through the control of Cannabis over our hormonal system…”  In my opinion one of the most revealing areas of biological and botanical research today is the genetic sequencing of Cannabis sativa. 

It is known that the sacred herb’s DNA is so extraordinary because of the unique components of the plant. So much so, that there is no sharing with any other plant on Earth. But there is sharing with humans and the Cannabis Genome reveals a fascinating fact that we humans share more than 40% of our DNA with ganja! In my opinion the biological proof of this is that we have already evolved to produce the human versions of THC and CBD. And now the whole world knows about these vital components that can treat disease and other human disorders.

The truth is that we share about 50% of our DNA with all plants, so to share more than 40% with the sacred herb makes complete sense. Don’t be surprised then to learn that we also share 50% of our DNA with mushrooms!

Of even more proof to me is the realization that ganja can influence humans to become better humans filled with love, empathy and humility. If this isn’t regarded as proof of genetic reasons to consume ganja that should warrant a worldwide moratorium on all means and forms of prohibition, then I really don’t know what more research might even qualify.

The two-dog-plant from the two-dog-star….how can you not believe this?

Well, some non-believers even argue that Jason King is incorrect because they say that the Greek interpretation is wrong because the earliest use of the word Cannabis, is in the Sumerian language “kanubi” that means “cane of two (sexes)” and not ‘canine’ but CANE!

Is it possible that the reason why ganja is so ‘lit’, is because it comes from the brightest star in the skies, meaning that it outshines all the other stars? And bear in mind that its name, Sirius, comes from the Greek word for ‘sparkling’ or ‘scorching’.

So next time you have a chance to meditate, roll a few fatty’s or pack your bong and head into nature to see if you can spot some cosmic dogs in the evening sky as darkness falls. The skies are always filled with miracles and as I lay flat on my back looking upwards blazing into the starlight, I shall be dreaming of the dank that could be grown on the super star of Sirius, home of the Two-Dog Plant.