On Koh Tao, KD has spent decades preserving landrace genetics, sharing seeds across generations, and treating cannabis less like a product than a living inheritance.
There are growers, and then there are keepers of lineage. Aram Limsakul, known as KD, belongs to the latter. In Thailand, where cannabis has long had medicinal and local cultural roots, KD cultivates something more valuable than flower: continuity.
For those unfamiliar with his name, KD is one of Thailand’s most respected cannabis cultivators and preservers of original Thai landrace genetics, a quiet legend who has spent decades collecting and protecting strains from around the world.
His earliest memory of cannabis reaches back to age five or six, watching his grandmother tend plants growing alongside rice in the family fields. “I remember the smell of cannabis plants,” he says. “Actually, it’s something special for me at that time. So I never forget the smell of cannabis.” His father smoked openly every day, never hiding it from the children because there was no law against it yet. “I get used to cannabis and I never get negative thinking or negative mind about cannabis.”
KD’s collection was built through travel, family, and the relationships that shaped his life. “I’m traveling around. It’s not just because of cannabis, because of my family or my wife from different countries,” he explains. In that wandering, he found seeds in places like Nepal, India, and Jamaica. “Whenever I go, I try to find cannabis in that country. I find a local who grow cannabis and we had a good talk and they gave me some seeds.”
Now, those seeds grow on Koh Tao, where his son Kevin Limsakul has taken charge of the business and cultivator Daniel Dolch tends plants with the passion KD recognizes from …
Read More
Author: Veronica "Vee" Castillo / High Times
