Cannabis in its most familiar form is marijuana. "Marijuana" is derived from the Mexican word maraguanquo which means "intoxicating plant". Some people site historical information in which the name was used to create an "evil" or "unpatrioitc" image for use of cannabis or other THC containing compounds .I'd like more details about this "mexican" word. First of all, in Mexico they speak CASTELLANO, not mexican. the word maraguanquo, MUST have an indian root, to say that is a mexican word, just shows lack of knowledge.
There is no Indian root but Greek. Castellano can refer to the Romance language that originated in Castile, and is spoken in much of Spain and the Americas; it is usually called Spanish, sometimes Castilian, in English.
The term, originally spelled variously as "marihuana", "mariguana", etc., originated in Mexican Spanish. The ultimate derivation is unknown. The plant name cannabis is from Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis), via Latin cannabis originally a Scythian or Thracian word also loaned into Persian as kanab.
Marijuana is a common name for the plant cannabis sativa. The major (not the only) psychoactive compound in cannabis sativa is tetrahydrocannabinol.
Cannabis sativa & Indica
cannabis sativa is the scientific name for the plant we know as marijuana
No, marijuana is not a gas, it is the leaves and flowers of the plant Cannabis Sativa.
CHEMISTRYTHC is the active ingredient in marijuana, it's full name is Delta 9 TetraHydroCannabinol. BOTANYThere are two subspecies of the marijuana plant, Cannabis Sativa Sativa and Cannabis Sativa Indica.
No. It comes from the marijuana plant. The scientific name is cannabis sativa/inidica.
Cannabis sativa L. is a member of the Cannabaceae or hemp family.
Industrial hemp (cannabis sativa L. subsp. sativavar. sativa) looks very similar to marijuana (cannabis sativa subsp. indica), but has only minute concentrations of the psychoactive drug THC (tetrahydrocannabinol).
No, PCP or Phencyclidine is a synthetic dissociative, and was first synthesized in 1926; marijuana are the dried leaves and buds of the plant cannabis sativa.
The scientific or taxonomic name would be Cannabis sativa.
MARIJUANA, Comes from Cannabis Sativa Plant. It generally refers to the dried flowers, stems or leaves of the cannabis plant, and is being use now as a psychoactive drug.
Marijuana is the female cannabis sativa plant. Hemp is the male cannabis sativa plant. Only the female plant (or the buds on it) carries enough THC to get anyone high. Marijuana has been in use for at least 5000 years, it was never "developed". Some cow probably ate the plant a few million years ago and got stoned and then passed on the tradition.