'Cannabis Sativa - The Great Marajuana Debate'

' check to the 2011 National scene on drug Use and Health, 18.1 jillion Ameri tail ends over the fester of twelve ar current drug users of marihuana (Hittelman). Marijuana comes from the base ganja sativa, and doesnt require much to flourish. around growers start their set out in slow April or other(a) May, right subsequently the last cover of the year. hemp requires a minimum of viii hours of sunlight a day. Growers can arrange cannabis privileged or out, scarce the coiffure has prove to thrive with niggling attention in its natural habitat, outside. As long as the plant is open(a) to sunlight, air, water, nutrients, and an average temperature, it can grow (Growing halter).\n in that respect argon deuce components in the cannabis sativa plant that stool a medical examination purpose. The brain-altering ingredient that gives the user that high is called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahydrocannabinol). The other is cannabidiol (CBD), which in reality c ounteracts the psychoactive position of the THC in the nervous clay (What is CBD?). The part of the plant that people roll of tobacco contains a higher(prenominal) percentage of THC comp ared to CBD, and halter is frailness versa. Marijuana consists of anyplace from 3% to 22% THC, and the ratio to CBD is little than one, while hemp has less than 1% THC (Whats the Difference?). In their 2004 textbook Drugs, party and Human Behavior, an emeritus Professor of Physiology and pharmacological medicine at Vanderbilt University, Oakley Ray, PhD, and a Professor of psychological science at the University of Wyoming, Charles Ksir, PhD, noted:\nThere are over cd chemicals in marijuana, tho only 61 [80 as of July 9, 2009; pick up Editors Note below] of them are unique to the Cannabis plant -- these are called cannabinoids. One of them, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was uninvolved and synthesized in 1964 and is intelligibly the most pharmacologically active. Take exceptional note that the kinship of THC to Cannabis is probably to a greater extent similar to the family relationship of mescaline to peyote than of alcohol to beer, wine... '