The male plants are obviously flowered and taller (Pate 1994). ... This plant is banned in many countries (Kepe 2003). ... Cannabinoids are released by the epidermal glands of the plant (Pate 1994). ... Observing the morphological characteristics of Cannabis sativa L. may be important in the drug identification especially in incidences where other characteristics are insufficient (de Pasquale et al. 1974). ... This similarity in hair types between other plants and marijuana has led to the need for the identification of distinguishing characteristics of Cannabis sativa L. trichomes that can sti...

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The leaves of this plant are smoked but the most highly prized part of the plant is the top, smoked by rolling inside tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. ... Indeed, the plant readily spreads to additional territory. ... Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuana show bad coordination and impaired ability to perform skilled acts. ... The plant may be dried and used for intoxication, or as resin can be collected from the plant by compressing the plant into a brick. ... These ways include inhaling the fumes by smoking the plant, or by eating the plant baked into brownies called A...

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Egypt saw this and they ban anything that had to do with hashish, the resin part at the top of the bud on a marijuana plant. ... There are over 400 other chemicals in the plant. ... This means there is 20 times more THC in the plants than in the 2 1960's. ... Addiction 1. can't get addicted 2. no addicting characteristics a. sick with abstinence b. crack or heroin 3. addicted to high a. slow b. don't know ii C. ...

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Marijuana, as most people commonly know it, is really a plant called hemp, or "cannabis sativa". There are other plants called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of these plants. "Hemp" is any durable plant used since prehistory for many purposes. ... The cannabis plant also produces three other very important products that other plants do not; these can be made into some usable form: seed, stems, and chemicals. ... Authorities manufactured this lie during the first "Reefer Madness", in order to scare men into thinking that they would lose their manly characteristics after using the ...

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