Marijuana?

Question

What are the different parts of a Cannabis plant used for?

Answer 1

Cannabis sativa, also known as hemp, is a species of Cannabis. It is a dioecious, annual herb. It has been used by humans throughout recorded history for its fiber, for its psychological and physiological potential as a source of drug material, and for the nourishment and oil of its seeds. Different parts of the herb have different uses and different varieties are cultivated in different ways, and harvested at different times, depending on the purpose for which the herb is grown.
The tough fiber of the plant, cultivated as hemp, has numerous textile uses. Its seed, chiefly used as caged-bird feed, is a valuable source of protein. The flowers (and to a much lesser extent the leaves, stems, and seeds) contain psychoactive and physiologically active chemical compounds known as cannabinoids that are consumed for recreational, medicinal, and spiritual purposes. When so used, preparations of flowers and leaves (marijuana) and preparations derived from resinous extract (hashish) are consumed by smoking, vaporizing and oral ingestion. Historically, tinctures, teas, and ointments have also been common preparations.

Some botanists classify the plant into two different species. The strain most commonly used for its psychological properties being Cannabis indica [1] and the variety used more commonly for industrial purposes, Cannabis sative. Recently methodological changes however, opened up debate as to whether these branches actually constitute different species

Answer 2

Although the marijuana plant has been used to make various useful consumer products in the past, none of them are so irreplaceable that there are not other substitutes for them which do not have the risk that people could abuse the THC which the plant naturally produces.

In other words, the people who protest that help has other uses protest too much. They are not serious. They know that if hemp becomes widely used (with whatever legal 'safeguards' might be put on it) it would eventually be too common to be policed, and THAT is what they are trying to achieve-- a society in which it is impossible for law enforcement to prevent the smoking of marijuana, due to it's widespread availability. This is the situation that was common in prohibition days, when so many people made bathtub gin.

Maybe we ought to legalize pot. We haven't yet bred out of the human race the genes which make people willing to use it, and more motor vehicle crashes caused by pot smokers would quickly eliminate the undesirables. Except that they would also kill other, innocent people.

Answer 3

The stalks and seeds can be used to make hemp which has lots of uses other than smoking - in shampoo, soap, to make clothing or rope. These are legal as TCP (what gets you high) is not induced to the body.

The leaves, buds and even roots (generally called weed) are used to smoke, as is the (solid) resin from the cannibis plant.

Answer 4

flowers are used for drug, typically sm0ked, the seeds used for protein and oild, the steams have a fiberous outer layer used for rope and canvas, the dutch word cavas comes from cannabis

Answer 5

cannabis is the natural antidote for tobacco addiction. when used as aroma therapy; it's not addictive but it should not be taken internally.
the aroma is the cure for restless anxiety and has no side effects.

Answer 6

Bud - smoking!
Stems - could be used for boiling, making soup
Stem - used for hemp strand/thread
Leaves - don't know, but I wouldn't want to use them for anything!

Answer 7

to smoke.