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Cannabis growing wild in a ditch in Buffalo County, Nebraska. Feral cannabis, or wild marijuana (often referred to in North America as ditch weed), is wild-growing cannabis generally descended from industrial hemp plants previously cultivated for fiber, with low or negligible amounts of psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Cannabis plants produce a unique family of terpeno-phenolic compounds called cannabinoids, some of which produce the "high" which may be experienced from consuming marijuana. There are 483 identifiable chemical constituents known to exist in the cannabis plant, [53] and at least 85 different cannabinoids have been isolated from the plant. [54]
Growing cannabis in the Emerald Triangle is considered a way of life, and the locals believe that everyone living in this region is either directly or indirectly reliant on the cannabis industry. [3] The industry exploded in the region with the passage of California Proposition 215 (1996) , which legalized the use of cannabis for medicinal ...
State and federal authorities found over 1,200 pounds of untagged, and therefore untraceable, marijuana at the grow facility along with guns and cash.
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.
The high electricity consumption of a home, its cardboard-covered windows and odor of marijuana drew law enforcement's attention to an illicit grow operation off the beaten path in rural Maine.
More than 1,900 growing marijuana plants were located and destroyed, along with several hundred pounds of processed marijuana. Deputies also seized more than 200 suspected fentanyl pills ...
Cannabis plants can produce volatile organic compound in great enough amounts to increase the criteria air pollutants in indoor and outdoor environments. [6] This could create an occupational health hazard in areas with large numbers of plants. [6] Cannabis in California is a frequent focus of study.