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English: Wild marijuana (Cannabis sativa var. ruderalis Janisch.; syn.: Cannabis ruderalis Janisch.), top of a male plant. Habitat: along roadside at the edge of upland deciduous forest. Vicinity of Saratov city, Russia.
Cannabis ruderalis is a variety, subspecies, or species of Cannabis native to Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. It contains a relatively low quantity of psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and does not require photoperiod to blossom (unlike C. indica and C. sativa ).
Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, hemp seeds and their oils, hemp leaves for use as vegetables and as juice. Industrial hemp products are made from cannabis plants selected to produce an abundance of fibre. Cannabis also has a long history of being used for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug known as marijuana or weed.
Cannabis is predominantly dioecious, [16] [18] having imperfect flowers, with staminate "male" and pistillate "female" flowers occurring on separate plants. [19] " At a very early period the Chinese recognized the Cannabis plant as dioecious", [ 20 ] and the (c. 3rd century BCE) Erya dictionary defined xi 枲 "male Cannabis " and fu 莩 (or ju ...
The flowers of Cannabis sativa plants are most often either male or female, but, only plants displaying female pistils can be or turn hermaphrodite. Males can never become hermaphrodites. [ 3 ] It is a short-day flowering plant, with staminate (male) plants usually taller and less robust than pistillate (female or male) plants.
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Traditional heirloom strain of cannabis, [21] [63] and method of preparation. [90] The strain is a high quality bud originating in northeast Thailand, where it was grown by hill tribes since antiquity. The name comes from a traditional Thai method of preparing cannabis to be smoked, which involved wrapping cannabis bud around a stick. [90]