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[narrator] To cut off the flow of cannabis across the border

To cut off the flow of cannabisacross the border, the US started paying Mexico to spray...

Explained • S01E12 • 2018

[narrator] To cut off the flow of cannabis
across the border, the US started paying Mexico to spray their marijuana fields
with herbicide in 1975, so Americans started making
a lot more of it themselves. But marijuana could only grow
in the sunny US states like California, because the only marijuana we had
was cannabis sativa. That changed in the late 1970s, when Americans brought back
the shorter cold-resistant cannabis indica from the Hindu Kush mountains. And we came up with hybrids

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[narrator] To cut off the flow of cannabis across the border,

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the US started paying Mexico

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to spray their marijuana fields with herbicide in 1975,

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so Americans started making a lot more of it themselves.

00:00:14.055 --> 00:00:18.559

But marijuana could only grow in the sunny US states like California,

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because the only marijuana we had was cannabis sativa.

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That changed in the late 1970s,

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when Americans brought back the shorter cold-resistant cannabis indica

00:00:28.695 --> 00:00:30.697

from the Hindu Kush mountains.

00:00:30.078 --> 00:00:32.074

And we came up with hybrids.

Duration

33 seconds

Views

20

Timestamp in Movie

00:09:04

Uploaded

Jun 27, 2025

Season

1

Episode

12

Genres

Production

Amicus Productions

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