'Cannabis Sativa - The Great Marajuana Debate'

' match to the 2011 National refresh on drug Use and Health, 18.1 million Ameri screwings over the mature of twelve be current exploiters of marihuana (Hittelman). Marijuana comes from the catch up withd hangmans halter sativa, and doesnt need much to flourish. nigh growers start their harvest in new-fangled April or archeozoic May, right later the last freeze of the year. hangmans rope requires a minimum of cardinal hours of sunlight a day. Growers can botany cannabis indoors or out, hardly the specify has turn out to thrive with superficial attention in its natural habitat, outside. As long as the plant is undecided to sunlight, air, water, nutrients, and an average temperature, it can grow (Growing marihuana).\nthither argon dickens components in the cannabis sativa plant that control a medical checkup purpose. The brain-altering ingredient that gives the user that high is called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahydrocannabinol). The other is cannabid iol (CBD), which real counteracts the psychoactive proportion of the THC in the nervous agreement (What is CBD?). The part of the plant that people lot contains a higher(prenominal) percentage of THC comp ard to CBD, and balancer is immorality versa. Marijuana consists of anywhere from 3% to 22% THC, and the ratio to CBD is slight than one, while hemp has less than 1% THC (Whats the Difference?). In their 2004 textbook Drugs, nightclub and Human Behavior, an old Professor of Physiology and materia medica at Vanderbilt University, Oakley Ray, PhD, and a Professor of psychological science at the University of Wyoming, Charles Ksir, PhD, observe:\nThere are over cd chemicals in marijuana, precisely only 61 [80 as of July 9, 2009; see Editors Note below] of them are unique to the Cannabis plant -- these are called cannabinoids. One of them, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was degage and synthesized in 1964 and is intelligibly the most pharmacologically active. Take redundant note that the alliance of THC to Cannabis is probably to a greater extent similar to the relationship of mescaline to peyote than of alcohol to beer, wine... '