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. Cannabis is the most durable of the hemp plants, and it produces the toughest cloth, named "canvass". 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. ...

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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. ... 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 Alice B.Toklas. ... The reason for the extended period of time that THC stays in the body is that unlike alcohol, which is exc...

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Cultivation of the crop began thousands of years ago in China where the people had little regard for the psycho-active side effects of the plant (Richardson 41). ... Pilgrims used the plant's fibers to make clothing and rope as well, and the cultivation of the crop helped to boost the local shipbuilding industry. ... This plant was also widely used to make sails and rigging for ships. However, during the 1930's, the plant's favor began to fall as petrochemical plants lobbied for the plant to become illegal in order to reduce competition (Conrow 8), and despite objections from th...

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