Why grow cannabis?
There are lots of reasons to grow your own cannabis! It can be a money saver. With most commercially grown cannabis, you don't know what nutrients or pesticides it's been grown with. Growing your own lets you be in control of all of that. Growing your own means you can choose what strains you grow. You aren't limited to what is being grown commercially. Commercial growers often select strains based on yield, so a lot of really good strains get overlooked. For a lot of people who have been prescribed cannabis, growing your own is the best way to guarantee a consistent supply of medication.
Whatever your reasons for growing are, WeCannabisGrow is here to help along the way. This is a place for everyone to freely share knowledge, ask questions, find answers, and learn to grow cannabis. WeCannabisGrow is also a great place for seasoned growers to meet other growers, and bounce ideas off of one another. Share your experiences growing different strains. When we all pool our knowledge, then we all grow better cannabis together!
Let's get Sirius - The Entomology of Cannabis
Did you know cannabis is actually a Greek word? Canna is Greek for "canine." Bis or bi is the number two. Put the two together and we get cannabis, or the "two dog plant." But why did the Greek call it that?
Around 300 BC the cannabis loving people of the Dogon tribe, of Mali, West Africa were visited by Greek traveler Herodotus. Herodotus happened to visit during a year long celebration, that only happens every 50 years. The Dogon's told him that the celebration was to honour the brightest star in the winter sky, Sirius. They called it the "Two Dog Star" and was the home of the "two dog plant." The Dogon believe that the plant was brought by a goddess from the "Two Dog Star," and this was a year long celebration of that.
The Dogon also described a smaller, heavier, white star that orbited Sirius A every 50 years. They call this star Po Tolo, and it is invisible to the naked eye. They also described a smaller red star named Emme Ya. Also not visible to the naked eye. Even though the Dogon people couldn't see these stars, they seemed to have a great deal of knowledge about them. All the way down to the axis that Po Tolo spins on.
Fast forward to 1970, over 2000 years later. The first photograph of Sirius B is taken. A white dwarf star that orbits Sirius A every 50 years. The star the Dogon called Po Tolo, exactly as they had described it to Herodotus. Then in 1995 two French astronomers published their results of a multiyear study involving a small red dwarf star in the Sirius system. The star the Dogon described as Emme Ya.
So after two millennium, science had proved this Dogon story to be true? Is the rest of their story true? Maybe time will tell.
