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Some U.S. states have legalized marijuana, but Peter Reuter argues that restricting promotion of marijuana once it is legal is more complex than it may initially appear. [ 82 ] According to the United Nations' World Drug Report, cannabis "was the world's most widely produced, trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010", with between 128 ...
This is the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent. [128] The earliest evidence of cannabis smoking has been found in the 2,500-year-old tombs of Jirzankal Cemetery in the Pamir Mountains in Western China, where cannabis residue were found in burners with charred pebbles possibly used during funeral rituals. [129 ...
Leafly: Marijuana Strains and Infused Products Torkelson, Anthony R. (1996), The Cross Name Index to Medicinal Plants , Vol. IV: Plants in Indian medicine, CRC Press, p. 1674, ISBN 9780849326356 , OCLC 34038712
Marihuana prensada ('pressed marijuana') is a cannabis-derived product widespread among the lower classes of South America, [185] especially from the 90s. Locally it is known as "paraguayo" or "paragua", since its main producer is Paraguay. [186] Marijuana is dried and mixed with binding agents that make it toxic and highly harmful to health. [187]
The old northern varieties of hemp did not contain the narcotic THC; and the 2nd millennium was probably the first time that enough people were travelling back and forth between Iran (where it grew) and eastern Europe that they could spread a habit, along with its source, the THC-bearing hemp. And the early 1st-millennium B.C. is just when we ...
Cannabis strains is a popular name to refer to plant varieties of the monospecific genus Cannabis sativa L..They are either pure or hybrid varieties of the plant, which encompasses various sub-species C. sativa, C. indica, and C. ruderalis.
The oldest texts of Traditional Chinese Medicine listed herbal uses for cannabis and noted some psychodynamic effects. The (ca. 100 CE) Chinese pharmacopeia Shennong Ben Cao Jing ( Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica ) described the use of mafen 麻蕡 "cannabis fruit/seeds":
Schoenmakers was described by High Times magazine in 1985 as the "King of Cannabis". [6] he was the first cannabis breeder to export cannabis seeds from the Netherlands to the rest of the world, and is credited with creating many of the most popular award winning strains, such as Nevil's Haze, [7] Northern Lights Haze, Super Silver Haze, Nevil's Skunk, Super Skunk, Silver Pearl, Silver Haze ...