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Biology Assignment

SCIN131

9 October 2020

Assignment 2 Outline: Medical Marijuana

I. Introduction

A. Common and Scientific Names

1. Common and Scientific Names: Hemp, Weed, Bud, Hash, Grass, Dank

2. Scientific Name: Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis India & Cannabis ruderalis

B. Geographical range

1. India

a. Himalayas (Satori, 2020)

2. America

a. California

b. New Jersey

3. China

4. Africa

a. Ethiopia

b. Uganda

c. Zimbabwe

d. South Africa

C. Specific Location (Country, State, City)

a. New Amsterdam, Portland

b. California

c. Oregon

D. Specific Location Biome

1. Central and Western Asia

E. Background and Description

1. Not at risk of extinction.

2. Grows naturally in the wild in certain regions.

3. Morphology

a. Cannabis is a member of the Cannabaceae family.

b. Annual Life cycle.

c. Stem is long and thin.

d. Morphology differentiation in various strains of the species.

e. Varying Levels of tetrahydrocannabidiol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) depending on the strain. (Schultes and Hofmann 1991)

f. continuous variation in content of these constituents among the accessions with no phenotypic characteristic

II. Life Cycle of the Organism

1. Cannabis seeds: Mature cannabis seeds are planted into a seedbed to produce seedlings suitable for growth.

2. Germinating stage: The seeds have started to develop and have young roots and shoot.

3. Seedling stage: Growth has matured to a stage suitable for transplanting. The seedlings are nurtured in a state to prepare them for full growth.

4. Sprouting vegetative stage: the seedlings have grown to become young plants. This is the stage they also full develop into full grown plants capable of producing flowers.

5. Flowering stage: Flowers begin to mature and form in the stem and leaves of the plant developing to full grown plants with considerable number of the wanted chemical.

6. Harvesting stage: the plant has developed into a mature adult plant. It has flowers and full leaves that indicate its maturity and season of harvest. This is usually the last stage considered in the life cycle of the cannabis plant.

III. Structure and Function

1. Medicinal Purposes

2. Used for Oil and Fiber.

3. Used for recreational purposes.

IV. Evolution

A. Classification:

1. There are debates that it was discovered in the wild and grown formats accidental discovery of its psychedelic properties.

2. Lineage

a. Kingdom: Plantae

b. Division: Tracheophytes

c. Clade: Angiosperms

d. Clade: Eudicots

e. Clade: Rosids

f. Order: Rosales

g. Family: Cannabaceae

B. Fossil information

a. Earliest documented use of Cannabis in ancient China discoveries (Ernest, 1980).

b. Greek historian Herodotus's reference to the central Eurasian Scythians taking cannabis steam baths (Butrika, 2002).

V. Additional Interest

1. Rastafarian Movement of Jamaica.

2. Meditation motivation techniques of various civilizations.

VI. Conclusion

A. Cannabis has been used in various cultures as long as history allows.

B. The use of medicinal cannabis has been recently promoted to treat various diseases.

C. There are various varying landraces native to almost every continent in the world.

References

Geoffrey William Guy; Brian Anthony Whittle; Philip Robson (2004). The Medicinal Uses of Cannabis and Cannabinoids. Pharmaceutical Press. pp. 74–

Butrica James L (2002). "The Medical Use of Cannabis among the Greeks and Romans". Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics. 2 (2): 51–70.

Ernest A., Marijuana, The First 12,000 years (Plenum Press, New York 1980)

Joseph O., (1982), Dread, The Rastafarians of Jamaica. London: Heinemann

Linnaeus, C. (1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1027. Salvius, Stockholm. [Facsimile edition, 1957–1959

Bridges C., (1925), "Sex in Relation to Chromosomes and Genes", The American Naturalist. 59 (661): 127–37.

Satori, (2028), Where Does Cannabis Grow, Naturally?

Accessed at: https://satorimj.com/where-does-cannabis-grow-naturally/