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Facts that Most People Don't Know About Marijuana

Facts that Most People Don't Know About Marijuana

Marijuana is the most popular and used illegal drug in the United States today. It is used from the ages as early as 13 to as late as unknown. Marijuana is ranked number two in terms of the most popular drugs legal and illegal next to alcohol. There are a lot of things that people don’t know about marijuana and it’s effects, and here is the truth.

What is Marijuana? Half of the people smoking it don’t even know where it came from in general. When you buy it from someone else however you will never really know where it came from or what is in it. Marijuana is a mixture of leaves, stems and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis Sativa. The psychoactive ingredient of marijuana is THC (or tetrahydrocannabinol), and is concentrated in the flowering tops of the plant. Hashish is a drug prepared from the plant resin, and has about eight times more THC then the average marijuana.

Marijuana has been around for hundreds of years. In Central Asia and China as early as 3000 B.C., Marijuana was used as a folk medicine. It was not until about the 1900’s that it was used as a pleasure-inducing drug, and by the 1960’s and 1970’s it was used wide spread. Now in the year 2001 the use of marijuana is so wide spread that it is a really uncommon drug. Studies show that marijuana is about five times stronger then it was in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Marijuana grows throughout temperate regions, with more potent varieties produced in dry, hot, upland climates. With green houses marijuana can be grown just about anywhere. There are a numerous amounts names for marijuana. They are: Weed, Pot, Mary Jane, Greens, Grass, Dank, Ganja, Blunts, and Trees. The most common names though are weed, greens, trees, and blunts.

The regular use of marijuana is illegal in all parts of the United States. However in 1996 voters in both California and Arizona approved ballot measures exempting physicians and patients from criminal prosecution when marijuana is prescribed for medical purposes in the relief of pain or other symptoms caused by cancer, Aids, glaucoma, arthritis, and other illnesses and chronic conditions. The Massachusetts and Ohio legislatures enacted similar medical necessity laws in 1996 also. As an alternative to smoking marijuana in these cases the...

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