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found this an interesting tale about the origins of Cannabis in Mexico ;
A year later, Wheeler and a fellow named Tom Newman, went to live with the Nahuatl Indians, the people who grew the best grass in the
world. From there they went to Michuacan where the famous Michuacan grass came from. But how did it get there in the first place?
An 80-year-old Indian told Wheeler a story that he `d heard from his grandfather about that. He said that in the year 1510 the explorer
Fernando Cortez arrived with a boatload of Moors. Most of the Moors just laid around and drank coconut beer, but 10 of them hiked to the Pass of
Cortez, located between two volcanos. They saw the most beautiful fruit and crops growing there and asked the locals if they could plant the seeds
from their favorite grass that they `d brought from Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan there. And the Indians said yes. And that was the
introduction of grass to the Western World, says Krassner, at least how it was explained to me.
What about the sinsemilla? he was asked.
I `m getting to it. Wheeler wanted an adventure and Newman suggested he grow a ton of the seedless, sin hueso grass and bring it
back to the states to shake up the Kundilini Chakra there. Well, Wheeler had spent seven months living with the indigenous learning how to sex the
plants and eliminate the males so he gave it a try.
It took two years to get it together, from begging Indians to give him seeds to trying to find people to grow it, to actually growing it. Then he
had to try to explain why he was killing half the plants. He had a semantic crisis with that: after all he was killing the machos in a macho place.
But when Wheeler finally had his ton he realized he had no idea of how to smuggle it. So he found an alleged expert named Buckwheat, and
they began to move it. Two kilos here, 200 kilos there. Their personal stash was four kilos of the stickiest, shiniest, psychedelic grass they `d
ever seen.
Buckwheat, who was in the music business, gave some to the Byrds at a concert, and to David Crosby, who smoked it and announced on
stage: I just smoked the most fantastic grass. It `s called Sansimion and it comes right up the coast.
San Simion, of course, was the name of the William Randolph Hearst estate, and Wheeler quickly corrected Crosby: That grass is
called sin semilla, without seeds.
And that was the start of it, at least according to David Wheeler.
Krassner says he met Wheeler, who died about a year ago, in Venice and Marin County a number of times. Did he believe Wheeler `s claim?
Yes he says, then adds but there is always an absolute truth, and who knows if this guy was exaggerating or not. I just
reported what he said.
A longer, more complete version of this story appears in Paul Krassner s book, Murder at the Conspiracy Convention and Other American
Absurdities, published by Barricade Books ( www.paulkrassner.com).
Thanks for sharin
Elmer Bud .
found this an interesting tale about the origins of Cannabis in Mexico ;
A year later, Wheeler and a fellow named Tom Newman, went to live with the Nahuatl Indians, the people who grew the best grass in the
world. From there they went to Michuacan where the famous Michuacan grass came from. But how did it get there in the first place?
An 80-year-old Indian told Wheeler a story that he `d heard from his grandfather about that. He said that in the year 1510 the explorer
Fernando Cortez arrived with a boatload of Moors. Most of the Moors just laid around and drank coconut beer, but 10 of them hiked to the Pass of
Cortez, located between two volcanos. They saw the most beautiful fruit and crops growing there and asked the locals if they could plant the seeds
from their favorite grass that they `d brought from Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan there. And the Indians said yes. And that was the
introduction of grass to the Western World, says Krassner, at least how it was explained to me.
What about the sinsemilla? he was asked.
I `m getting to it. Wheeler wanted an adventure and Newman suggested he grow a ton of the seedless, sin hueso grass and bring it
back to the states to shake up the Kundilini Chakra there. Well, Wheeler had spent seven months living with the indigenous learning how to sex the
plants and eliminate the males so he gave it a try.
It took two years to get it together, from begging Indians to give him seeds to trying to find people to grow it, to actually growing it. Then he
had to try to explain why he was killing half the plants. He had a semantic crisis with that: after all he was killing the machos in a macho place.
But when Wheeler finally had his ton he realized he had no idea of how to smuggle it. So he found an alleged expert named Buckwheat, and
they began to move it. Two kilos here, 200 kilos there. Their personal stash was four kilos of the stickiest, shiniest, psychedelic grass they `d
ever seen.
Buckwheat, who was in the music business, gave some to the Byrds at a concert, and to David Crosby, who smoked it and announced on
stage: I just smoked the most fantastic grass. It `s called Sansimion and it comes right up the coast.
San Simion, of course, was the name of the William Randolph Hearst estate, and Wheeler quickly corrected Crosby: That grass is
called sin semilla, without seeds.
And that was the start of it, at least according to David Wheeler.
Krassner says he met Wheeler, who died about a year ago, in Venice and Marin County a number of times. Did he believe Wheeler `s claim?
Yes he says, then adds but there is always an absolute truth, and who knows if this guy was exaggerating or not. I just
reported what he said.
A longer, more complete version of this story appears in Paul Krassner s book, Murder at the Conspiracy Convention and Other American
Absurdities, published by Barricade Books ( www.paulkrassner.com).
Thanks for sharin
Elmer Bud .
