Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants.
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- noun A technique of growing
cannabis where only the female is allowed to blossom. Without pollen from the male plant, the female blossoms produce no seeds, forming large panicled flowers that have a high content ofcannabinoids , found inTHC .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Evidence from the Forensic Science Service suggests that skunk cannabis (otherwise known as sinsemilla) is remarkably stronger than ever before.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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Evidence from the Forensic Science Service suggests that skunk cannabis (otherwise known as sinsemilla) is remarkably stronger than ever before.
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They both contain glowing references to growing and smoking "Indian hemp," which was what you might call sinsemilla, seedless cannibis as grown in India for thousands of years for the purpose of smoking.
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Each Christmas tree-sized plant of the potent "sinsemilla" variety yields around $3,500, making marijuana the biggest cash crop in California.
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Countering the low-grade imported weed from Mexico, Jamaica and Colombia (a. k.a schwag), home growers converted to sinsemilla (seedless female plants), increasing potency from 2% THC to anywhere from 10% to 25% levels.
Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010
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Countering the low-grade imported weed from Mexico, Jamaica and Colombia (a. k.a schwag), home growers converted to sinsemilla (seedless female plants), increasing potency from 2% THC to anywhere from 10% to 25% levels.
Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010
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A decade ago, an ounce of high-grade sinsemilla cost at least $300.
The year is 2020: What's happening with marijuana? Michael S. Rosenwald 2010
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This choice, seed-free herb is known as sinsemilla (Spanish for "without seed").
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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Countering the low-grade imported weed from Mexico, Jamaica and Colombia (a. k.a schwag), home growers converted to sinsemilla (seedless female plants), increasing potency from 2% THC to anywhere from 10% to 25% levels.
Steve Bloom: Legalization or Bust: A Brief History of Marijuana Prohibition Steve Bloom 2010
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Mr. LEE: Generally, you're going to get rid of the male plants that produce pollen that would fertilize the female plants, and that's how you get sinsemilla, or seedless cannabis.
chained_bear commented on the word sinsemilla
"You had gone to Madison with about a thousand dollars for books, toiletries, and miscellaneous expenses, but you'd immediately loaned a guy in your dorm eight hundred bucks so he could buy four ounces of extremely high-grade Mexican sinsemilla."
—Brian David Mooney, "SPQR," The Cincinnati Review, 6.1 (Summer 2009)
July 22, 2009