AK-47

Nevil Schoenbottom, High Times Magazine, March 1987

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This is a very pop sweet plant. 3rd place winner 9th Cannabis Cup. A very potent 50% Indica/50% Sativa cross nicknamed The Killer!

Aromatic, sweet tasting producing an incredible debilitating high.

Nevil went to great expense to obtain seeds, a commitment that is best illustrated by a secret trip to Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

According to the Moslem legend, one of Mohammed's sons died in Mazar-i-Sharif.

Consequently, it is a very holy city. It is also known for high quality hashish. Although hash from the area had been readily available in the late 70's, the Soviet invasion of that country greatly reduced exports. In 1985, an Afghan refugee told Nevil the (cannabis) fields around Mazar-i-Sharif were being destroyed. "That was what I needed to hear" says Nevil, " I caught the next plane to Pakistan to save the strain

After being smuggled into a refugee camp in Peshawar while lying on the floor of a car, Nevil made contact with a 30-year old Muslim fanatic who had a throbbing vein that ran from between his eyes straight up to his forehead. The man took a lump of black hash out of his pocket and told Nevil that it had been processed by his uncle, a man known as Mister Hashish.

Surrounded by four men pointing machine guns at him, Nevil set about negotiating with Mr. Hashish, a Mujahedin commander, and finally persuaded him to send a squad of his men 280 miles into Soviet occupied territory and come back with two kilos of healthy Mazari seeds.

Nevil added " He thought I was ridiculous because I didn't want to buy hashish or opium. Nobody had ever come out to buy seeds, and at first he had no idea what I was talking about. I tried there trying to explain genetics to this tribal hash leader in sign language. When he finally figured out what I wanted, he asked too much money. I took a zero off his price and gave him 10% up front. He called me a bandit, but I had the seeds four days later.

(Added: Wed Aug 21 2002)

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