Preserve Shivalik’s Vijaya: Why India Must Protect Ayurvedic Cannabis from Foreign Hemp
Preserve Shivalik’s Vijaya: Why India Must Protect Ayurvedic Cannabis from Foreign Hemp A critical misconception currently clouds India’s emerging hemp and cannabinoid ecosystem: the belief that domestic cultivators must import low-THC foreign seeds to comply with global export benchmarks of 0.3% THC. This premise introduces an unnecessary and dangerous ecological gamble. Why expend national capital on foreign cultivars and compromise our native Himalayan biodiversity when modern botanical science already allows the targeted extraction and separation of CBD and THC? By utilizing isolate and distillate processing, India can export pure, 0.0% THC compliant CBD globally while safeguarding our ancient landraces in the wild. The Ecological Threat to Himalayan Landraces The indigenous Vijaya of the Shivalik and Himalayan ranges is a pure, highly potent medicinal landrace preserved over millennia. Permitting non-intoxicating, low-potency industrial hemp to be cultivated in these mountai...