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BC Big Bud/BC Roadkill/BC Hydro: Industry trade name for cannabis strain. Initially cultivated in British Columbia, first called Red Hair Sensi, a hybridization of Panama Red/Acapulco Gold strains brought from Colorado by Vietnam War draft dodgers or BC Roadkill Skunk and Indica Deep Chunk. [65] [66] BC OG Kush Industry trade name for cannabis ...
Hybrid strains of C. indica include Blueberry Kush and Golden Jamaican Kush. [1] The term "kush" is now also used as a slang word for cannabis. [2] The origins of Kush Cannabis are from landrace plants mainly in Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan and North-Western India [3] with the name coming from the Hindu Kush mountain range.
Acapulco Gold is a strain of Cannabis sativa that was popular during the 1960s counterculture movement for its potency, taste, and unique color. It is a landrace cannabis variety that is an 80% sativa and 20% indica hybrid reportedly produced by crossing a native Mexican strain with a Nepalese indica.
Cannabis was introduced to Jamaica in the 1850s–1860s by import from licensed businesses often run by Jewish families in the Bengal region of India (also now Bangladesh/West Bengal) for consumption by indentured servants from India during British rule of both nations; many of the terms used in cannabis culture in Jamaica are based on Indian terms, including the term ganja.
A religion developed in Jamaica during the 1930s currently with an estimated 700,000 to 1 million members worldwide. [See cannabis and religion.] reefer A slang word for cannabis, possibly derived from reefing, or rolling up a canvas sail. [2] [51] reefer madness A fictional cannabis psychosis caused by smoking marihuana in the 1936 film Reefer ...
Stona recorded a throw of 70.00 meters in the fourth round to win Jamaica's first Olympic gold for the event and the 2024 Games. He surpassed Lithuania's Mykolas Alekna, who set the Olympic record ...
George Stiebel (c. 1821-1896) was an Afro-European Jamaican trader and entrepreneur who became a millionaire from gold mining in South America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Stiebel is considered Jamaica's first millionaire of African descent.
Rojé Stona (born 26 February 1999) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw.He broke the Olympic record to win the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, thus becoming the first Jamaican to be Olympic Champion at a throwing event.