Talk:Panama red

Unverified facts

This article has some pretty specific facts in it that are wholly unverified (ie: Panama Red is genetically related to Columbian red). It reads like a dealer trying to justify overcharging for some normal marijuana, not like a well researched article. The only fact I have come across is that Panama Red is slang for cannabis (http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/slang/slang8.shtml) OngoingCivilUnrest 02:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just expanded the Columbian red article from one sentence to a few paragraphs. I found no really good scientific material, so it's a kind of shoddy wikipedia article. But I wanted to comment that I haven't found any suggestion of the relationship between Panama Red and Columbian Red, or Acapulco Red for that matter...one book on cannabis said red can be from the species itself, or from soil conditions; while I assume these reds are genetic, I found no sources (even unreliable) that explicitly said so. If nobody finds a source supporting the genetic relationship soon, I would recommend removing the claim. -Agyle 04:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Minor update, I did see the sentence "Lowland Colombian (Colombian or Panama Red)— red to red-brown—from the Llanos area" in a books.google search, returned from Marijuana Chemistry, but google only shows some pages in the book, and doesn't include that one. So there's at least a suggestion of a link. I wouldn't cite it without more information though. -Agyle 05:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the article set the wrong tone, as well. First off, if you've never had the experience of smoking genuine Panama Red marijuana from Panama, you have NO IDEA what it was or is like. To say that one could grow marijuana in North America from PR seeds without any effect on it from the total change in climate is absurd on the face of it. Were that so, the current strains of legal weed would be dynamite like Panama Red was, and they certainly are not, or Panama Red could've been grown domestically when it was popular, and that was not possible. One writer on the subject (who wrote A Connosieur's Guide to Marijuana) hypothesized that the really strong strains of cannabis had "gone polyploid," meaning that there are several copies of the plant's chromosomes in the cell nucleus, not just two. I recall my own mother rifling through my desk drawer during a summer back at home from college, impounding the little baggie of Panama Red seeds, and disposing of them I don't know where. It was an outrage, I can assure you. After smoking Panama Red, you would see double for a few minutes and you were stoned for HOURS, not just a little while, as is the case with the domestically grown weed these days. Similar effects could be achieved with other topflight strains like Acapulco Gold, Michoacan,and etc., but for my money, Panama Red topped them all. It was clearly the best marijuana in the world, just as the best hashish came from the old world Indica strains such as the highly euphoric Lebanese Blond, my personal favorite, as well as the fabled Nepalese Temple Balls, thought to be the strongest Cannabis there is. signed Jake McClintock — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.205.118.136 (talk) 21:40, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]