Weed: 12 Interesting Facts You Should Know
Weed: 12 Interesting Facts You Should Know
Look at some interesting facts about the world’s most beloved plant (Weed, Marijuana, Pot).
Marijuana, also known as weed or pot, refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, which contains the psychoactive and mind-altering chemical, delta-9-tetra-hydro-cannabinol, or THC, as well as other related compounds. Let’s take a fun look at some interesting facts about the world’s most beloved plant.
Researchers find that 42% of people surveyed in the U.S. have tried marijuana at least once. In contrast, only 20% of people surveyed in the Netherlands, where weed has been legal for 38 years, reported having tried pot; in Asian countries, such as Japan and China, marijuana use is virtually “non-existent,” the study finds.
Out of the estimated 22 million pounds of marijuana grown each year in the United States, nearly 80% comes from California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington.
An estimated one-third of America’s weed is grown indoors. An indoor grow module accommodating 4 plants sucks as much electricity as 29 refrigerators. In California, indoor marijuana grow modules account for about 9 percent of household electricity use.
In Colorado, where the recreational use of marijuana was recently legalized, only 9% of residents are regular pot smokers. Denver has surpassed Amsterdam as the capital of the marijuana world. The city has more than 300 stores, called dispensaries, outnumbering pharmacies, liquor stores, public schools and even Starbucks. In Colorado, recreational pot has a hard time competing with medical marijuana, which has been legal since 2000 and whose tax rate is 78% lower. Estimated pot sales are 55 tons of medical pot and 18.4 tons of recreational pot. The use among teens has not increased with the legalization of recreational weed.
Legalizing marijuana federally would generate $8.7 billion in federal and state tax revenue per year.
California was the first U.S. State that banned marijuana a century ago.
In the U.S., a sentence of life in prison without parole was given for trying to sell $10 of marijuana to an undercover officer. Over 800,000 people are arrested for marijuana in the US each year.
Support for weed legalization is rapidly outpacing opposition. A slim majority (52%) of Americans say the drug should be made legal, compared with 45% who want it to be illegal. Opinions have changed drastically since 1969, when Gallup first asked the question and found that just 12% favored legalizing marijuana use.
Weed is legal and is not even classified as a drug in North Korea.
Smoking up could be a very different experience for men and women, according to a 2014 study in the journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In research on rats, it was discovered that females were more sensitive to cannabis’ painkilling qualities, but they were also more likely to develop a tolerance for the drug, which could contribute to negative side effects and dependence on marijuana.
Study after study finds that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. The beer and alcohol industries are two of the biggest anti-marijuana advocates. Obviously, marijuana is a serious threat to alcohol sales. Due to its safer nature, marijuana is often suggested as an alternative to alcohol.
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Sources:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/top-10-marijuana-myths-and-facts-20120822#ixzz3Q3Sttf1a
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/wsu-eic082814.php
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/05/6-facts-about-marijuana/
http://www.theweedblog.com/how-much-marijuana-does-it-take-for-someone-to-overdose/
http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/12/26/pot-sales-taxes-statistics/26031/
http://io9.com/5891425/how-many-joints-would-you-have-to-smoke-to-die-of-a-marijuana-overdose
http://www.msnbc.com/pot-barons/marijuana-industry-sees-green-after-colorado-legalization
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/colorado-legal-marijuana-charts-statistics
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/sentenced-to-a-slow-death.html?_r=0
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meh. only America facts.
Indica exists too bruh
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Actually, Marijuana is the name of a wild Mexican tobacco. William Hurst and Henry Anslinger started using it to describe Cannabis in the early 1930’s to demonize the plant and associate it with Hispanics. Facts you should know before uploading a video claiming to be facts.
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Iβll say it marijuana makes you feel dumb and sometimes sick . I never smoked a cigarette and got sick .
Orthodox Jewish rabbis, the Catholic Catechism and the Fifth Precept of Buddhism all forbid use of marijuana (or any other drug) for recreation. What makes today’s cannabis abusers think they know something that these diverse religions don’t? Don’t hide behind atheism, because cannabis use started (c. 1500 BC) as an evil spiritual attempt to invoke Shiva ("death, destroyer of worlds").
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Funny thing is that tennessee is only cbd legal
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1500 lbs of marijuana in 15 minutes? You’ll die because of the smoke way before that.
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You forgot indica
In some countries just possession of Marijuana can get you life in prison and child molester only gets a few months in those same countries , our justice systems around the world is joke !
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You were wrong in the beginning of the video. The plant is called Cannabis. Sativa, Indica, and Ruderalis are the 3 species of the plant. If you’re going to say something as fact, research it first.
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Marijuana can help suppress and even reverse cancer
Same wit beer and vaping has just entered the chat
Newest research shows regular use of marijuana actually increases lung volume and lung expansion.
its time to legalize marijuana
That’s why i only smoke marijuana not sell it.
just pointing something out that between the US and the Netherlands the US 314 million more people than the Netherlands so of course the Netherlands is gonna have a statistically lower percentage of people that have tried marijuana compared to the us idk just felt i had to throw it out there
Smoking marijuana has no link can bronchitis nor is it any thing close to smoking cigarettes stop lying to people
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If I had to choose between either Cannabis or alcohol my choice would be Cannabis. For me Cannabis helps me maintain my weight, also itβs more mellow and helps with my anxiety.
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Can you please do a video on discomfort in the chest area
It’s not legal in the Netherlands.
As a Canadian I’ve just got one thing to say…YOU LIED TO ME FOR MY WHOLE LIFE.
29 fridges??? For 4 plants! They must be tiny fridges bro..
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Bronchitis?? Man you dumb
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A few years back they legalized marijuana in the state of Oregon, and now they have several problems. Go ahead and let your state legalize marijuana and you can experience the same thing. The inflated prices of building supplies, pollution, the drug deals gone bad, plus not to mention more people on welfare because they can’t get a real job. Many of these places around here hire people under the table so they don’t even pay taxes. I see more people on welfare that can’t pay for their own food but they can afford to buy their marijuana.
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Always wanted to live in Colorado
I smoke everyday from 5years no problem in body or memory
I had understood that ppt didnβt hurt your lungs at all
Your numbers seem a wee BIT off. I get the MESSAGE. Check your NUMBERS be accurate. No story.and point well taken.
Regulation far far better than ban so many reasons let’s get past it.
Id love to host a show where drivers can challenge a stoner driving. If People can drive on opioids safely then people can drive on herb safely.