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CNN's Anderson Cooper Goes Shopping For "Medical Marijuana"
(07:06 min.)

From: News1News

Added: July 24, 2009

Description: CNN's Anderson Cooper Goes Shopping For "Medical Marijuana" - 07/24/09

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-U3ayNgnk

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Lesson #2 provided by me (from the cannabis.com web site est. 1997):

CANNABIS

Cannabis was first believed to have been orginated from among the Himalayan Mountain region and refers to the genus of flowering plant. The plant has distinct serrated edges on its leaves. Use of cannabis as a drug date back as far as the Neolithic age, where evidence comes in the form of charred cannabis seeds were found in ritualized burial sites in present day Romania. In historical terms, the most famous users of cannabis were the ancient Hindus.

Hemp refers to varieties of the cannabis plant which are cultivated for non-drug use, and for industrial and other goods such as rope, clothes, fuel, etc. The Cannabis Plant produces chemicals called CANNABINOIDS which produce the "high" effect / mental + physical effects when utilized. The natural herbal cannabinoid (there are over 60 known herbal cannabinoids) occur naturally in the Cannabis plant - this can be viewed under a good microscope in the form of glistening viscous resin bulb-like structures called TRICHOMES.

The primary psychoactive component of the cannabis plant is Tetrahydrocannabinol - otherwise known as THC. Isolated by Raphael Mechoulam and Yechiel Gaoni in Rehovot, Israel in 1964.

When Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is cold in its pure form, it becomes a glassy solid, while when it is warmed, it becomes a really sticky viscous substance which leads to its various varieties.

[Peter's NOTE: Notice the "OH" in the diagram. Does it stand for "Ohio," huh? Tetrahydrocannabinol comes from Ohio, who knew?]


As if you didn't know already, eh?