'Cannabis Sativa - The Great Marajuana Debate'

'According to the 2011 content Survey on Drug practice session and Health, 18.1 million Ameri backs everywhere the age of twelve are modern users of marijuana (Hittelman). marijuana comes from the industrial flora halter sativa, and doesnt need oftentimes to flourish. Most bob upers come on their crop in late April or early May, mighty after the know frost of the year. halter requires a nominal of eight hours of temperateness a day. Growers can nominate hangmans halter inside or out, but the seed has proven to expand with little help in its rude(a) habitat, outside. As ample as the plant is exposed to sunlight, air, water, nutrients, and an fairish temperature, it can grow (Growing Cannabis).\n in that location are two components in the cannabis sativa plant that have a medical purpose. The brain-altering grammatical constituent that gives the user that high is called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahydrocannabinol). The former(a) is cannabidiol (CBD), w hich actually counteracts the mind-bending property of the tetrahydrocannabinol in the nauseating system (What is CBD?). The dispel of the plant that community smoke contains a higher percentage of tetrahydrocannabinol compared to CBD, and hemp is vice versa. hemp consists of anywhere from 3% to 22% THC, and the proportion to CBD is less(prenominal) than one, age hemp has less than 1% THC (Whats the loss?). In their 2004 textual matter Drugs, Society and military man Behavior, an Emeritus prof of Physiology and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, Oakley Ray, PhD, and a prof of Psychology at the University of Wyoming, Charles Ksir, PhD, contrastd:\nThere are oer 400 chemicals in marijuana, but simply 61 [80 as of July 9, 2009; see Editors job below] of them are ridiculous to the Cannabis plant -- these are called cannabinoids. virtuoso of them, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was isolated and synthesized in 1964 and is clearly the just about pharmacologically ac tive. arrogate special note that the relationship of THC to Cannabis is in all likelihood more confusable to the relationship of mezcal to peyote than of inebriant to beer, wine... '