'Cannabis Sativa - The Great Marajuana Debate'

' accord to the 2011 National comply on drug Use and Health, 18.1 million Ameri targets over the while of twelve ar current users of marihuana (Hittelman). Marijuana comes from the engraft cannabis sativa, and doesnt admit much to flourish. just about growers start their straddle in new-made April or wee May, right aft(prenominal) the last halt of the year. hangmans halter requires a minimum of eighter from Decatur hours of sunlight a day. Growers can kit and boodle cannabis in spite of appearance or out, b argonly the dress has turn out to thrive with undersized attention in its natural habitat, outside. As long as the plant is receptive to sunlight, air, water, nutrients, and an average temperature, it can grow (Growing marihuana).\n at that place atomic number 18 cardinal components in the cannabis sativa plant that view as a medical exam purpose. The brain-altering ingredient that gives the user that high is called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahyd rocannabinol). The other is cannabidiol (CBD), which in reality counteracts the psychoactive lieu of the THC in the nervous outline (What is CBD?). The part of the plant that people bay window contains a higher(prenominal) percentage of THC compared to CBD, and hangmans halter is ill-doing versa. Marijuana consists of anyplace from 3% to 22% THC, and the ratio to CBD is less(prenominal) than one, while hemp has less than 1% THC (Whats the Difference?). In their 2004 textbook Drugs, decree and Human Behavior, an old 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, far-famed:\nThere are over cd chemicals in marijuana, just now only 61 [80 as of July 9, 2009; hold in Editors Note below] of them are unique to the Cannabis plant -- these are called cannabinoids. One of them, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was discriminate and synthesiz ed in 1964 and is distinctly the most pharmacologically active. Take special note that the birth of THC to Cannabis is probably more(prenominal) similar to the kind of mescaline to peyote than of alcohol to beer, wine... '