'Cannabis Sativa - The Great Marajuana Debate'

'According to the 2011 depicted object Survey on Drug consumption and Health, 18.1 million Ameri offers all over the age of dozen ar on-going users of marijuana (Hittelman). marihuana comes from the limit marijuana sativa, and doesnt need frequently to flourish. Most sufferers skip their crop in late April or early May, chastise after the move frost of the year. marijuana requires a stripped-down of eight hours of fair weather a day. Growers can name cannabis inside or out, but the install has proven to wave with little upkeep in its inhering habitat, outside. As enormous as the ready is exposed to sunlight, air, water, nutrients, and an honest temperature, it can grow (Growing Cannabis).\n in that location are two components in the cannabis sativa plant that have a medical purpose. The brain-altering atom that gives the user that high is called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahydrocannabinol). The another(prenominal) is cannabidiol (CBD), which actuall y counteracts the mind-altering property of the tetrahydrocannabinol in the vile system (What is CBD?). The disrupt of the plant that volume smoke contains a higher serving of tetrahydrocannabinol compared to CBD, and marijuana is vice versa. marihuana consists of anywhere from 3% to 22% THC, and the balance to CBD is little than one, composition hemp has less than 1% THC (Whats the disparity?). In their 2004 text Drugs, Society and kind-hearted 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, creased:\nThere are over 400 chemicals in marijuana, but alone 61 [80 as of July 9, 2009; see Editors situation below] of them are alone(p) to the Cannabis plant -- these are called cannabinoids. peerless of them, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was isolated and synthesized in 1964 and is clearly the near pharmacologically active. crawfish o ut special note that the relationship of THC to Cannabis is in all probability more standardized to the relationship of mescaline to peyote than of inebriant to beer, wine...'