LEBANESE

Lebanese

Genetics

Parentage not documented yet

Origin: Landrace/hashish population Β· parent of 1 strain

⏱ 9–11wflowering

Genetics

Family tree

No sourced parentage yet. Unknown beats invented.

Offspring

Bred from Lebanese

Lab data

Cannabinoids

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Lab data

Terpenes

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Use cases

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Ranked against other strains from user reports and lab terpenes.

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    Type (Type not reported) is a reported label, not chemistry.

    Full history

    1. Summary

    "Lebanese" in the import era meant hashish: red and blond sieved resin from the Bekaa valley. Flower was rarely seen abroad. Novak (1979): "It is said that the best marijuana in the world is grown in Lebanon but is rarely smoked because the plants are made into hashish."12 Bekaa hashish production is old enough that the French Mandate banned it by a 1925 decree effective 1926 (via Wikipedia, citing Clarke 1998).3 Lebanese hash saturated US markets during the 1975–90 civil war, and HT called 1981 a record year.456 Cultivation was banned in 1992 and legalised for medical and industrial use on 21 April 2020.3 Several independent sources point to a CBD-rich hash chemotype. In 1982 Carlton Turner said Lebanese and other hash imports usually had more CBD than THC. Studies of Bekaa material in 2021–24 found CBD exceeding THC.789 Lebanese seed was already growing in the US in the 1970s (a "ninth-generation Red-Lebanese Gold-Colombian hybrid").1 Modern seed (Dutch Passion Black Lebanon, ACE Lebanese, various hashplant crosses) gives no collection data.1011

    2. Identity

    • Names/aliases: Red Lebanese, Blond Lebanese, "Leb", Black Lebanon (Dutch Passion), Lebanese HP (hashplant).21011
    • Type as reported: indica / hash plant (vendors). Herbarium material from the region is intermediate between South Asian and Central Asian types.1210
    • Region: Bekaa valley (Baalbek, Hermel, Yammoune).59
    • Era: early 20th century onward; US import peak 1970s–80s.23
    • Propagation: seed.

    3. Genetics & lineage claims

    3a. Bekaa hashish region since at least the 1920s

    Confidence: reported (secondary, citing a 1925 French report).3

    3b. "Lebanese" = sieved hashish (red/blond), not flower

    Confidence: well-supported.124

    3c. Civil-war boom, 1992 ban, 2020 legalisation

    Confidence: well-supported.4563

    3d. Lebanese hash-type cannabis is often CBD-rich

    Confidence: well-supported (1982 testimony; 2021–24 analyses).789 A Bekaa plant from Yammoune (1,375 m), supplied in October 2019, was modelled at CBD:THC 3:1. An ethanol extract had CBD 59.1% and THC 20.2% of the extract.89

    3e. Lebanese seed in US gardens by the 1970s

    Confidence: reported.1

    4. Timeline

    • 1925/1926 β€” French Mandate decree bans hashish cultivation, "especially intense in the Bekaa".3
    • 1970s β€” "Lebanese β€” blonde" and red hash among famous smokes. Red-Lebanese Γ— Gold-Colombian grown in Santa Cruz County.21
    • 1977–81 β€” civil war. Lebanese hash saturates US markets.4
    • 1981 β€” record year (HT May 1982); Baalbek buyers.5
    • May 1983 β€” HT visits the Jaffra family in the Bekaa.6
    • 1992 β€” cultivation officially banned.3
    • 2008 β€” Dutch Passion begins reworking "Black Lebanon".10
    • 2019–24 β€” Bekaa material analysed (CBD-dominant).89
    • 21 Apr 2020 β€” medical cultivation legalised.3
    • 2026 β€” ACE Seeds releases Lebanese, Lebanese Regular CBD, Morocco Γ— Lebanon F1.11

    5. Seed-vendor lineage (what is sold today)

    ProductVendorStated originConfidence
    Black Lebanon (Lebanon #1 Γ— #5)Dutch Passion"the original Black Lebanon dating back from the 1980's"; no collection datareported10
    Lebanese; Lebanese Regular CBD; Morocco Γ— Lebanon F1; Lebanon Γ— HokkaidoACE Seeds (2026)not read (ACE site 403)reported11
    Lebanese (USDA G 33733)Angus Pretty (not commercial)"charas landrace"; no datereported13
    DLA 12 (Vintage Lebanese Γ— '88 G13 Hashplant)Bodhi"Vintage Lebanese" undocumentedreported11
    Red Lebanese HP crosses; Silk RoadCrickets & Cicadanot statedreported11
    Hash Plant (Lebanese HP Γ— California HP)Reefermannot statedreported11
    Lebanese Pure Landrace; Red Grape LebaneseSunleaf; AK Bean Brainsnot statedreported11
    Yeshe18 (Red Lebanese Γ— Panama Red, CBD-selected, Γ— Burmese)Coastal Seed Co.CBD-selectedreported11

    6. Historical descriptions by era

    • 1970s: blond and red grades; red Lebanese common at street level.2
    • 1981: Lebanese hash "saturated both markets" during the war. Not one large shipment had been busted.4
    • 2019–24: CBD-dominant Bekaa material; terpenes Ξ±-pinene, myrcene, limonene, Ξ²-caryophyllene, humulene.89
    • 2026 (vendor): Black Lebanon flowers 60–65 days and is harvested mid-October outdoors.10

    7. Cannabinoid & terpene profile

    There are no rows named Lebanese in Smith 2022, WA I-502 or the state records. Published Bekaa material is CBD-dominant (extract percentages only, so not entered as flower rows).89 Strain names are not reliable chemotype identifiers.

    8. Community sentiment

    • Common: classic red/blond hash, the dependable fallback import ("there's still Lebanese hash around").4
    • Occasional: war-zone trade stories.56
    • Score: not estimated.

    9. Open questions / could not verify

    • Collection data for Dutch Passion's Lebanon #1/#5 and for ACE's lines.
    • Pre-1925 records (Clarke 1998 not opened).
    • Chemotype distribution across the Bekaa.

    10. Sources

    Note: footnote n = src-lebanese-0nn.

    Footnotes

    1. William Novak, High Culture (1979), ch. 11. http://www.psychedelic-library.org/high_culture11.htm β€” book. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

    2. High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs (1978), OCR. https://archive.org/download/high-times-encyclopedia/High%20Times%20Encyclopedia_djvu.txt β€” book. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

    3. Wikipedia, "Cannabis in Lebanon" (accessed 2026-10-18). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Lebanon β€” secondary_database. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

    4. HT #73 (Sep 1981), Trans-High Market Analysis (OCR). https://archive.org/download/high-times-magazine-1980s_202401/073%20High%20Times%20September%201981_djvu.txt β€” news. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

    5. HT #81 (May 1982), "Lebanon Hash Trade Booms in Free-Fire Zone" (OCR). https://archive.org/download/high-times-magazine-1980s_202401/081%20High%20Times%20May%201982_djvu.txt β€” news. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

    6. Michael Kienitz, "At Home with the Jaffras", HT #93 (May 1983) (OCR). https://archive.org/download/high-times-magazine-1980s_202401/093%20High%20Times%20May%201983_djvu.txt β€” news. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

    7. HT #78 (Feb 1982), Carlton Turner interview (OCR). https://archive.org/download/high-times-magazine-1980s_202401/078%20High%20Times%20February%201982_djvu.txt β€” interview. ↩ ↩2

    8. Shebaby W et al. (2021), J Ethnopharmacol 113743 (abstract). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2020.113743 β€” peer_reviewed. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

    9. Younes M et al. (2024), Sci Rep (full text). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76340-x β€” peer_reviewed. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

    10. Dutch Passion, "Black Lebanon". https://dutch-passion.com/en/cannabis-seeds/black-lebanon β€” breeder_statement. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

    11. Lebanese-named lines via research/dataset/catalogs/. https://www.northatlanticseed.com/product/lebanese-r/ β€” seed_catalog. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

    12. McPartland & Small (2020), PhytoKeys 144:81–112. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.144.46700 β€” peer_reviewed. ↩

    13. USDA GRIN-Global G 33733 "Lebanese". https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/accessiondetail?id=2158425 β€” lab_dataset. ↩