Goo Goo for Dagga or Dagga Dagga Doo
Wild Dagga leaves and flowers have been smoked by the Hottentot Tribesmen [South Africa] for their cannabis-like effects for a very long time. Now it is starting to show up more and more in main stream. For good reason. It really does have a cannabis-like effect! And it is 100% legal everywhere. I do mean everywhere!
Lion's Tail or Wild Dagga is the common name for Leonitis leonurus a member of the mint family. The active component in Wild Dagga is the alkaloid leonurine. The highest concentration of the active alkaloids is found in the bright orange flowers.
Wild Dagga is a perennial that will grow in zones 8-11 and an annual everywhere else as far north as Winnipeg. If you live in the north you can grow it in pots bringing it inside during the winter. Do not water it much in winter. In spring put it out after all danger of frost is past and it should flower. As a perennial it can grow up to a height of 3.5m and a width of 1.5 but much smaller as an annual or in a pot. The leaves are long and narrow, rough on top, velvety underneath, with serrated edges. Wild Dagga flowers in the fall with its characteristic Lion's Tail of bright orange flowers in compact clusters along the flower stalk. This is an excellent plant for attracting wildlife to your garden, the flowers and nectar attracts birds, bees and butterflies. The wild dagga is fast growing and is frost hardy. There are also creamy and white flower forms, but are only mildly psychoactive.
There are many Wild Dagga products on the market now. The most potent are the extracts X10, X15, X25, which come as a gooey resin that is smoked. I smoked a X10 extract for the first time in a wooden pipe. It was hard to burn but I got a head right away. The hit was about 0.05 grams. The next hit I mixed with a little tobacco. The buzz is incredibly similar to a sativa buzz, very up, between your ears and right behind your eyes. It is really not fair to compare it to pot but it is the easiest was to describe it. It is like a strong marijuana head buzz with absolutely no body buzz. I didn’t notice any panic or paranoia that can be sometimes associated with a strong sativa buzz. I think smoking it with an Indica might be very interesting. Two hits lasted 90 minutes with no hangover.
Next are the pure flowers with no stems, foliage, seeds or seed pods. The flowers are a bright orange with a very soft velvety texture. The fuzzier the better. This can be smoked or made as a tea which has a very focused hypnotic buzz that is very relaxing. I tried smoking a big fat joint of flowers. The taste was just so foul just the thought of a second puff was too much.
Then there are the stems, foliage, seeds and seed pods.
They can be smoked or made as a tea but is much weaker than the flowers. Dagga in this form is very cheap.
Wild Dagga is often a component of legal herb smoking blends, but usually it is only the foliage and stems.
Wild Dagga is so inexpensive that I only recommend the extracts and the flowers. Pure orange flowers are about $1.00 a gram and $250.00 a pound, in Canada. The extracts are $5.00-$10.00 per gram depending on the concentration of the extract. There are many Dagga suppliers on line. It really is very easy to buy.
Recorded traditional uses in Africa: The leaves or roots are widely used as a remedy for snakebite. Also to relieve other bites and stings. Extracts have been applied externally to treat boils, eczema, skin diseases, itching and muscular cramps. Extracts have also been used to relieve bronchitis, high blood pressure, coughs, cold and influenza, as well as headaches. Leaf infusions have been used to treat asthma and viral hepatitis.
This species is also important in Chinese and Vietnamese medicine as a euphoric and cleansing agent.
If you have ever typed cannabis into a search engine you’re probably seeing dagga come up in the cannabis listings. This is because dagga is the local South African word for cannabis.
I guess the only thing left to say is what’s wrong with it. Wild Dagga may be as addictive as nicotine with regular usage.
This article was written for the magazine Skunk in 2005.
Wild Dagga leaves and flowers have been smoked by the Hottentot Tribesmen [South Africa] for their cannabis-like effects for a very long time. Now it is starting to show up more and more in main stream. For good reason. It really does have a cannabis-like effect! And it is 100% legal everywhere. I do mean everywhere!
Lion's Tail or Wild Dagga is the common name for Leonitis leonurus a member of the mint family. The active component in Wild Dagga is the alkaloid leonurine. The highest concentration of the active alkaloids is found in the bright orange flowers.
Wild Dagga is a perennial that will grow in zones 8-11 and an annual everywhere else as far north as Winnipeg. If you live in the north you can grow it in pots bringing it inside during the winter. Do not water it much in winter. In spring put it out after all danger of frost is past and it should flower. As a perennial it can grow up to a height of 3.5m and a width of 1.5 but much smaller as an annual or in a pot. The leaves are long and narrow, rough on top, velvety underneath, with serrated edges. Wild Dagga flowers in the fall with its characteristic Lion's Tail of bright orange flowers in compact clusters along the flower stalk. This is an excellent plant for attracting wildlife to your garden, the flowers and nectar attracts birds, bees and butterflies. The wild dagga is fast growing and is frost hardy. There are also creamy and white flower forms, but are only mildly psychoactive.
There are many Wild Dagga products on the market now. The most potent are the extracts X10, X15, X25, which come as a gooey resin that is smoked. I smoked a X10 extract for the first time in a wooden pipe. It was hard to burn but I got a head right away. The hit was about 0.05 grams. The next hit I mixed with a little tobacco. The buzz is incredibly similar to a sativa buzz, very up, between your ears and right behind your eyes. It is really not fair to compare it to pot but it is the easiest was to describe it. It is like a strong marijuana head buzz with absolutely no body buzz. I didn’t notice any panic or paranoia that can be sometimes associated with a strong sativa buzz. I think smoking it with an Indica might be very interesting. Two hits lasted 90 minutes with no hangover.
Next are the pure flowers with no stems, foliage, seeds or seed pods. The flowers are a bright orange with a very soft velvety texture. The fuzzier the better. This can be smoked or made as a tea which has a very focused hypnotic buzz that is very relaxing. I tried smoking a big fat joint of flowers. The taste was just so foul just the thought of a second puff was too much.
Then there are the stems, foliage, seeds and seed pods.
They can be smoked or made as a tea but is much weaker than the flowers. Dagga in this form is very cheap.
Wild Dagga is often a component of legal herb smoking blends, but usually it is only the foliage and stems.
Wild Dagga is so inexpensive that I only recommend the extracts and the flowers. Pure orange flowers are about $1.00 a gram and $250.00 a pound, in Canada. The extracts are $5.00-$10.00 per gram depending on the concentration of the extract. There are many Dagga suppliers on line. It really is very easy to buy.
Recorded traditional uses in Africa: The leaves or roots are widely used as a remedy for snakebite. Also to relieve other bites and stings. Extracts have been applied externally to treat boils, eczema, skin diseases, itching and muscular cramps. Extracts have also been used to relieve bronchitis, high blood pressure, coughs, cold and influenza, as well as headaches. Leaf infusions have been used to treat asthma and viral hepatitis.
This species is also important in Chinese and Vietnamese medicine as a euphoric and cleansing agent.
If you have ever typed cannabis into a search engine you’re probably seeing dagga come up in the cannabis listings. This is because dagga is the local South African word for cannabis.
I guess the only thing left to say is what’s wrong with it. Wild Dagga may be as addictive as nicotine with regular usage.
This article was written for the magazine Skunk in 2005.