They say that the weed grown in the USSR under Stalin was some of the most potent ever known to man. Under the guidance of Trofim Lysenko, Stalin assembled a crack team of growers whose marijuana was

They say that the weed grown in the USSR under Stalin was some of the most
potent ever known to man. Under the guidance of Trofim Lysenko, Stalin
assembled a crack team of growers whose marijuana was known for its intense
body high and clarifying mental effects. In his personal diaries, Nikolai Bukharin
writes, “Joseph [Stalin] came to me one night as I was struggling to finish the final
edit of an issue of Pravda. He handed me an ounce of marijuana that reeked of
skunk. The smell alone was enough to make me tremble. ‘This is a gift from
Lysenko and he said, and left almost immediately. I smoked that weed and I was
never the same.”
Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, 194