25 Facts About Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.

Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, hemp seeds and their oils, hemp leaves for use as vegetables and as juice, medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug.

All known strains of Cannabis are wind-pollinated and the fruit is an achene.

Cannabis is predominantly dioecious, having imperfect flowers, with staminate "male" and pistillate "female" flowers occurring on separate plants.

Cannabis was one of the first plant species to be karyotyped; however, this was in a period when karyotype preparation was primitive by modern standards.

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Cannabis plants produce a large number of chemicals as part of their defense against herbivory, see Chemical defenses in Cannabis.

The first genome sequence of Cannabis, which is estimated to be 820 Mb in size, was published in 2011 by a team of Canadian scientists.

Genus Cannabis was formerly placed in the nettle family or mulberry family (Moraceae), and later, along with the genus Humulus (hops), in a separate family, the hemp family (Cannabaceae sensu stricto).

Various types of Cannabis have been described, and variously classified as species, subspecies, or varieties:.

Since the early 1970s, Cannabis plants have been categorized by their chemical phenotype or "chemotype", based on the overall amount of THC produced, and on the ratio of THC to CBD.

Whether the drug and non-drug, cultivated and wild types of Cannabis constitute a single, highly variable species, or the genus is polytypic with more than one species, has been a subject of debate for well over two centuries.

Genus Cannabis was first classified using the "modern" system of taxonomic nomenclature by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, who devised the system still in use for the naming of species.

Cannabis described C indica as having poorer fiber quality than C sativa, but greater utility as an inebriant.

The name Cannabis indica was listed in various Pharmacopoeias, and was widely used to designate Cannabis suitable for the manufacture of medicinal preparations.

Cannabis aficionados recognize three distinct types based on such factors as morphology, native range, aroma, and subjective psychoactive characteristics.

The oldest pollen thought to be from Cannabis is from Ningxia, China, on the boundary between the Tibetan Plateau and the Loess Plateau, dating to the early Miocene, around 19.

Cannabis was widely distributed over Asia by the Late Pleistocene.

Cannabis smoke was inhaled by Daoists, who burned it in incense burners.

Cannabis is a popular recreational drug around the world, only behind alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco.

Cannabis plant has a history of medicinal use dating back thousands of years across many cultures.

Cannabis is thought to have belonged to the Jushi culture recorded in the area centuries later in the Hanshu, Chap 96B.

Cannabis is first referred to in Hindu Vedas between 2000 and 1400 BCE, in the Atharvaveda.

Elders of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, a religious movement founded in the United States in 1975 with no ties to either Ethiopia or the Coptic Church, consider Cannabis to be the Eucharist, claiming it as an oral tradition from Ethiopia dating back to the time of Christ.

Cannabis is frequently used among Sufis – the mystical interpretation of Islam that exerts strong influence over local Muslim practices in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Turkey, and Pakistan.

Cannabis preparations are frequently used at Sufi festivals in those countries.

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