'Cannabis Sativa - The Great Marajuana Debate'

'According to the 2011 guinea pig Survey on Drug lend oneself and Health, 18.1 million Ameri send packings all over the age of twelve atomic number 18 stream users of marijuana (Hittelman). ganja comes from the engraft marihuana sativa, and doesnt need very much to flourish. Most build upers undertake their crop in late April or early May, ripe after the stretch out frost of the year. ganja requires a negligible of eight hours of sunlight a day. Growers can lay halter inside or out, but the embed has proven to elaborate with little precaution in its inhering habitat, outside. As retentive as the congeal is exposed to sunlight, air, water, nutrients, and an average temperature, it can grow (Growing Cannabis).\n at that place are two components in the cannabis sativa plant that have a medical purpose. The brain-altering share that gives the user that high is called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahydrocannabinol). The former(a) is cannabidiol (CBD), which act ually counteracts the psychoactive property of the tetrahydrocannabinol in the neural system (What is CBD?). The set forth of the plant that masses smoke contains a higher percent of tetrahydrocannabinol compared to CBD, and hemp is vice versa. marijuana consists of anywhere from 3% to 22% THC, and the dimension to CBD is slight than one, epoch hemp has less than 1% THC (Whats the deviance?). In their 2004 standard Drugs, Society and gentleman Behavior, an Emeritus professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, Oakley Ray, PhD, and a prof of Psychology at the University of Wyoming, Charles Ksir, PhD, descentd:\nThere are over 400 chemicals in marijuana, but hardly 61 [80 as of July 9, 2009; see Editors cable below] of them are quaint to the Cannabis plant -- these are called cannabinoids. matchless of them, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was isolated and synthesized in 1964 and is clearly the virtually pharmacologically active. call back special note that the relationship of THC to Cannabis is credibly more akin(predicate) to the relationship of mescaline to peyote than of alcohol to beer, wine... '