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Fri May 24 12:07:41 UTC 2019

1. How Legalization Changed Humboldt County Marijuana
https://tinyurl.com/yxoafwbd <https://tinyurl.com/yxoafwbd>
20 May 2019
Emily Witt

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They learned the practice known as sinsemilla, in which female cannabis plants are isolated from the pollen of their male counterparts, which causes the females to produce high levels of THC.
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This definition matches Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinsemilla <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sinsemilla>), which gives a derivation of “sin semilla,” Spanish for “without seeds.”

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinsemilla <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinsemilla>), however, says it is a slang term for marijuana and a slang term for good-quality marijuana. That matches the OED definition:

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 A plant belonging to a strain of Cannabis sativa having a particularly high narcotic content; also, the narcotic produced from a plant of this kind.

1975   High Times Dec. 68/2   Last year a guy bit the dust in Arizona in a PBY—a big-ass World War II Navy amphibian—full of prime Mexican sinsemilla.
1978   Time 12 June 22   Studies show that sinsemillas weed contains five times more tetrahydrocannabinol (pot's narcotic ingredient) than the common Mexican variety.
1980   Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 11/2   This year sinsemilla buds are fetching from $2,200 (£917) to $3,000 (£1,250) a pound.
1982   Newsweek 25 Oct. 60   Sinsemilla retails for up to $250 an ounce these days, and every plant produces up to two pounds of marketable buds.
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The first, third and fourth of these OED citations are ambiguous as to whether sinsemilla is the result of no pollination or a separate strain of marijuana, and Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sinsemilla&utm_source=search-action <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sinsemilla&utm_source=search-action>) has both definitions. It seems that there are two meanings in use. Sinsemilla seems to have become associated with strain names having high potency as indicated in this next citation:

2. Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific 
https://tinyurl.com/yxkrc3ud <https://tinyurl.com/yxkrc3ud>
Martin A. Lee
2012
pp. 175, 176

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The sexually frustrated females produce bigger flower clusters with more sticky, aromatic resin in an attempt to catch pollen that never arrives. Known as _sinsemilla_….

Big Sur Holy Weed, one of the first commercially available sinsemilla strains from Santa Cruz, California, set a high standard.
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Seedless meaning:
3. How Pot Has Grown
https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/how-pot-has-grown/ <https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/how-pot-has-grown/>
19 February 1995
Michael Pollan

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Nowadays, only sinsemilla—the seedless bud of a female plant—is considered worth smoking; all the rest, called “shake,” is usually thrown out.
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4. Origins of the Species
https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2006/04/13/4721/ <https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2006/04/13/4721/>
13 April 2006
Robert Connell

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In the early 1970s, a handful of growers began to produce sinsemilla. Seedless plants are created by removing male plants from the fields, leaving only the unfertilized female plants to mature.

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In 1976, a coffee-table book called _Sinsemilla Marijuana Flowers_, by Jim Richardson and Arik Woods revolutionized marijuana growing in North America. Not only did the authors accurately and sensitively portray the sinsemilla technique with their excellent text and lavish color photographs, they made the first attempt to describe the proper stages of floral maturity for an optimally potent and tasty harvest. 
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5. BC Bud’s Long Road to Legalization
https://www.bcmag.ca/bc-buds-long-road-to-legalization/ <https://www.bcmag.ca/bc-buds-long-road-to-legalization/>
17 October 2018

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The growers speculated that if they could produce pretty-high THC sinsemilla (seedless) pot outdoors, cross-breeding the best female plants with potent Afghani and Thai strains, what would happen if they cultivated their hybrid species of pot in indoor grow-ops?
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6. Comments to: Why Is Cannabis Now So Different From 1970s Cannabis?
https://www.leafly.ca/news/cannabis-101/that-strong-stuff-why-is-cannabis-now-so-diff <https://www.leafly.ca/news/cannabis-101/that-strong-stuff-why-is-cannabis-now-so-diff>
Doug Wiser
5 months ago

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I had a friend rotate back from Hawaii around 1978 who hooked.me up with some Hawaiian sinsemilla and it was the first weed I experienced without seeds and stems.
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7. Why is Big Sur’s weed legendary but still not legal?
https://tinyurl.com/y5q8peha <https://tinyurl.com/y5q8peha>
4 February 2019
Lisa M. Krieger

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In the early 1970s, on isolated tracts of land with no electricity, plumbing or roads, growers perfected a new horticultural technique that produced seedless marijuana, called sinsemilla.
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A high-quality strain:

8. Marijuana: A Pot of Gold In Latest Crop
https://tinyurl.com/y6n6f9b3 <https://tinyurl.com/y6n6f9b3>
15 February 1981

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They've even given it what amounts to a brand name -- "sinsemilla." The word is an amalgam of the two Spanish words meaning "seedless" but has come to imply champagne-quality homegrown marijuana.

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To make their stuff stronger, pot farmers plant a different variety. The marijuana grown in Mexico, Colombia and Jamaica and the wild weed in the United States is a plant called cannabis satavia. Another variety grows in Asia, cannabis indicia, containing much more resin.

Americans in Vietnam developed a taste for the Eastern variety and brought the seeds home with them.

But the secret of sinsemilla is in the growing. The cultivators emasculate their marijuana patches, culling out the male plants as soon as their sex can be determined.
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9. U.S. Ingenuity Breeds Potent Marijuana Crop
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-04-01-9001260795-story.html <https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-04-01-9001260795-story.html>
1 April 1990
Paul Weingarten and James Coates

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Since the late 1960s, a variety of sinsemilla known as ''Maui Wowie'' has been the Dom Perignon of marijuana.

Today, however, that once exotic strain, pioneered in Hawaii, flourishes all over the country.

Sinsemilla grows everywhere-outdoors, and increasingly, in clandestine greenhouses.
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10. Sinsemilla Heritage: What Makes a Cannabis Brand?
https://tinyurl.com/y6asn6yv <https://tinyurl.com/y6asn6yv>
Robert C. Clarke & Mojave Richmond
November 2018

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Smuggled marijuana often contained many seeds, sometimes way too many, but those annoying parcels of unique genetics were occasionally put to good use in home gardens. Sinsemilla varieties home-grown each year from seed were also named after their host communities—from Gainesville Green to Big Sur Holy Weed to Maui Wowie.

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When companies select sinsemilla cultivars for the commercial market based solely on their aromatic terpene flavor profiles,...
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11. Maui Wowie Marijuana Strain
https://potent.media/maui-wowie-marijuana-strain <https://potent.media/maui-wowie-marijuana-strain>
Hydro Wilson
3 years ago

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Hawaii exists as the crossroads of the Pacific. Seeds have come in, and Sinsemilla has gone out, stashed in the gear of military personnel back from Vietnam and Thailand, hippies from the Mainland, and yachts cruising from Mexico and South America.
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Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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