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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0:46
Michigan? Wya?
15 hundred pounds. That sounds like a challenge
Its just a leaf, plus 100% herbal.
idukki Gold 😍
You would probably die of oxygen deprivation before you could consume that much in 15 minutes
Now legal in all of Canada, I can buy the finest green at a store just down the road. Vaping is the way to go to avoid the bad health affects of smoking. So nice to be able to grow it in my yard and enjoy without fear.
pretty lame.where are the 12 interesting facts? dude even sounded dull
Yo!! Who’s high af in 2019
1500 pounds in 15min…..whatta way to go 👏🌲🌱🍃🌿
My mom says leaves of three leave them be for poison ivy she also says leaves of 5 goodbye also talking about poison ivy I don’t think she knows what leaves of 5 actually means
Who else is out of bud );
I’d rather smoke a joint than drink a beer any day.
I got a 90 day ban for failing a drug test for a job. How is it I am able to pick up a gun before a blunt.
Oh ya car accidents. Lol peeps while high will think they going 70 when actually they going 5 miles per hour
THC is just another more mild form of acid
I believe some people cannot handle it . They have to go through a class … To prepare for a great time.
You don’t know what your talking about. Regergated facts
Where did you get your facts cuz I haven’t seen any buds growing in Kentucky or Tennessee the are both fully illegal
Man I got charged with a felony for having a dab cartridge cuz it’s a felony here in Omaha,Nebraska wish me luck for court
Why drink and drive when we smoke 💨 and fly ..😎
This may change because Canada legalized marijuana everywhere 🙌 Woah!
Where do you guys get this bs from?
💟Beautiful Cleanliness Cannabis!‼️💚
Progressive thoughts are slow. Ask Nixon. Class 1 drug?
Legalize 4 all state’s 2020 save lives dont b scared u stereotypes need 2 let up
If you make it totally legal. Grow,use,and sell cannabis. Then you can through out any debate about how much electricity it costs,because you could grow it outdoors and/or grow your own
I drive high a lot and I’d say my driving is safer? I always drive 10 under the speed limit and don’t ever realize it. My driving is more relaxed and I’m not rushed and I’m more calm, and I don’t take risks, I never try to cut anyone off, even if I can make a turn before a car is close I still don’t take it and wait. Not all people who smoke and drive are bad. Most are just idiots and don’t pay attention.
Marijuana doesn’t give you cancer like cigarettes do. Small detail you forgot to mention.
The Australian government should really see this video…
Use LED lights; they use far less energy
80 subs and ill go around my house screaming WeEdS nOt BaD
You missed Oregon….
42.0% *420* 😂😂
Seriously though. Who else is smoking while watching this?
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don’t forget Indica
Who is watching this at 4 AM? Is it just me?
American government want to make money on anything they can… Greedy fuckwits
As Bill said, I smoked but didn’t inhale, yeah right.
harry Anslinger lied and never read a report about Marijuana and deemed it more harmful then tobacco and alcohol which we now know is false and should be over-turned, more an more states are either legalizing it for medical or recreational reasons an if federally allowed it could bring down the national debt faster then the Government would realize!
Yo, what happened to the lower peninsula of Michigan @ 0:45? I know it exists, because I’m currently there/here…
3:17 tobacco actually isn’t that harmful at all, it’s just the massive cigarette industry that is constantly adding hundreds and thousands of toxic chemicals to the tobacco to make it cheaper.
Thanks for sharing this info!!!! Very interesting!!
yo wtf why’d you cut us out of the america? michigan is in america WHAT
SEND THIS TO THE PRESIDENT!!!
Marijuana smoke damaging the lungs has already been disproved if anything it helps your lungs. Dont believe me? Research on it.
Democrats criminalized marijuana in the 1930’s and continued to renew criminalization around 1970 completely as a racist action first against Mexicans and then against Blacks. (Look it up) F.D.R. did it. The Medical community was against its criminalization from the beginning, and again in the 70s and even today. U.V rays are more harmful than Marijuana, so are they going to criminalize going out in the Sun? More people die from bee stings, thirst, sugar, cigarettes, alcohol, water, animal attacks, the cold etc…. than from Marijuana, so why is Marijuana illegal ? Ask Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Democrat party. Democrats also brought you the KKK, Abortion, Jim Crow, etc… and so why vote Democrat? Well ask Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson who said about welfare to blacks "We’ll have those N*****s voting Democrat the next 200 years," and 55 years in, guess what . ? Suckers. Sorry, but its true. Democrats destroy everything they touch : The inner cities, Chicago, Detroit, California, Baltimore, Freedom to use Marijuana, etc…. And they want to take away your right to have a gun… A right given specifically for Blacks, by Republicans, so they could defend themselves against the Democrat KKK…
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NEW YORK STOP FRONTIN AND FAKIN,,,,.AND JUST LEGALIZE MARIJUANA !!
Hawaii??????????
0:46 i guess michigan isn’t a thing anymore?