Why do you think THC is produced in the marijuana plant? I've heard a few things like protection from animals (I don't think it makes sense... why wouldn't the male plant produce as much THC as the female if it was for protection.) or to catch the pollen from the male (kinda makes sense its sticky at least).
Why is THC produced?
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bass1014
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what i want to know is not why it produces it but who was the first to dry and smoke it? Indians ,cowboys, neanderthals ,vikings, how and who was the first to find the quality's and properties of the WEED plant. there are millions of WEEDS out there but why this one? Are there other WEEDS that are able to make us feel better than WEED>? AHHH the questions of the universe..
Firstoffallen
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Cannabis is indigenous to Central and South Asia. Evidence of the inhalation of cannabis smoke can be found in the 3rd millennium BCE, as indicated by charred cannabis seeds found in a ritual brazier at an ancient burial site in present day Romania. In 2003, a leather basket filled with cannabis leaf fragments and seeds was found next to a 2,500- to 2,800-year-oldmummified shaman in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Cannabis is also known to have been used by the ancient Hindus of India and Nepal thousands of years ago.
The discovery of THC was first described in "Isolation, structure and partial synthesis of an active constituent of hashish", published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1964. Research was also published in the academic journal Science, with "Marijuana chemistry" by Raphael Mechoulam in June 1970, followed by "Chemical basis of hashish activity" in August 1970.In the latter, the team of researchers from Hebrew University Pharmacy School and Tel Aviv University Medical School experimented on monkeys to isolate the active compounds in hashish. Their results provided evidence that, except for tetrahydrocannabinol, no other major active compounds were present in hashish
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The discovery of THC was first described in "Isolation, structure and partial synthesis of an active constituent of hashish", published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1964. Research was also published in the academic journal Science, with "Marijuana chemistry" by Raphael Mechoulam in June 1970, followed by "Chemical basis of hashish activity" in August 1970.In the latter, the team of researchers from Hebrew University Pharmacy School and Tel Aviv University Medical School experimented on monkeys to isolate the active compounds in hashish. Their results provided evidence that, except for tetrahydrocannabinol, no other major active compounds were present in hashish
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dbkick
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the sea squirt was the first to blaze.........but seriously the sea squirt was/is responsible for the cannabinoid receptor.
http://higherthinkingprimate.com/tag/sea-squirts/
Pimpernickel
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Pure speculation but perhaps it was breeding.
Huel Perkins
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Its produced to make medicine for man...
Usernamewastaken
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Because its delicious
LadyZandra
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Because humans and other carnivors/omnivores have naturally occuring THC receptor cells in their brains (as well as other receptors that allow other plants to 'work' as meds) Nature Makes what we need- we just "Evolved" (*yeah-right*) so far away from Nature that we lost our basic herbal knowledge and became dependant on MAN and his chemicals instead....
cephalopod
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Sun Block
SPF delicious
SPF delicious
ProfessorPotSnob
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I think that all the answers here are adding up . Thc is a variable of nature and one that was initialy manipulated by selective breeding of resinous seed plants verses fibrous plants . I believe it is nothing but a product of nature intended to work within the circles of all relations ..
Resin glands do protect a plants flowers from harmful uv rays , but the trichome is also known to be a deterrent to animals and this protects the developing embryo awaiting in its seed casing until it is ready to fall and begin the cycle of life once again ..
Resin glands do protect a plants flowers from harmful uv rays , but the trichome is also known to be a deterrent to animals and this protects the developing embryo awaiting in its seed casing until it is ready to fall and begin the cycle of life once again ..
HGK420
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Just a quick idea. since plants are really just a guess and check sorta life form (Hey lets mutate some THC buds and see what happened, or lets mutate apples! or tomatoes or flowers or whatever. and if the mutation works lotsa babies get made.)
Well i know for a fact animals like to get fucked up (squirrels with fermented nuts, deer with fermented sugar beets, deer with weed plants) and I'm pretty sure some millions of years ago some animal at that time (be it reptile or mammalian) came along a munched down this plant he found. and whadya know he got all fucked up. 1 this either scared the dog shit out of him and he ran as far away as possible never to return (and shit some seeds out FAR FAR away) or he hung around and just kept spreading seeds locally. either way he ate some bud and shit out some seeds somewhere else. Thats what plants do, the evolve an advantage. cannabis's advantage is the THC and the effect it has on anything that ingests it.
Thats most likely why the male doesn't produce THC, no seeds to poop out if u eat him. he does his job and just adds some more nitro to the soil locally for the next batch. The females grow big ole stinky fruits that will bring in anything that recognizes it from miles away (animal sense of smell, hell a few stoners i know too) have you ever smelled a plant before and after its been dusted? the smell changes a lot and it becomes a lot more abrasive i feel, probably more noticeable amongst non impregnated buds. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.
basically instead of sugar or starch or whatever else most other fruits and vegetables produce cannabis got THC instead. and I'm sure glad
Well i know for a fact animals like to get fucked up (squirrels with fermented nuts, deer with fermented sugar beets, deer with weed plants) and I'm pretty sure some millions of years ago some animal at that time (be it reptile or mammalian) came along a munched down this plant he found. and whadya know he got all fucked up. 1 this either scared the dog shit out of him and he ran as far away as possible never to return (and shit some seeds out FAR FAR away) or he hung around and just kept spreading seeds locally. either way he ate some bud and shit out some seeds somewhere else. Thats what plants do, the evolve an advantage. cannabis's advantage is the THC and the effect it has on anything that ingests it.
Thats most likely why the male doesn't produce THC, no seeds to poop out if u eat him. he does his job and just adds some more nitro to the soil locally for the next batch. The females grow big ole stinky fruits that will bring in anything that recognizes it from miles away (animal sense of smell, hell a few stoners i know too) have you ever smelled a plant before and after its been dusted? the smell changes a lot and it becomes a lot more abrasive i feel, probably more noticeable amongst non impregnated buds. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.
basically instead of sugar or starch or whatever else most other fruits and vegetables produce cannabis got THC instead. and I'm sure glad
Mister Sister
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If thc receptors evolved from sea squirts, does that point to human origins coming from water?
Wouldn't surprise me to be honest. And where are the sea squirts getting the thc they evolved to receive?
Wouldn't surprise me to be honest. And where are the sea squirts getting the thc they evolved to receive?
Medical Grade
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branches of evolution and species are much more complex than a single direct line - it could be said equally deer, monkeys, etc are related to sea squirts, as we know they have receptors as well.
Medical Grade
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Just a quick idea. since plants are really just a guess and check sorta life form (Hey lets mutate some THC buds and see what happened, or lets mutate apples! or tomatoes or flowers or whatever. and if the mutation works lotsa babies get made.)
Well i know for a fact animals like to get fucked up (squirrels with fermented nuts, deer with fermented sugar beets, deer with weed plants) and I'm pretty sure some millions of years ago some animal at that time (be it reptile or mammalian) came along a munched down this plant he found. and whadya know he got all fucked up. 1 this either scared the dog shit out of him and he ran as far away as possible never to return (and shit some seeds out FAR FAR away) or he hung around and just kept spreading seeds locally. either way he ate some bud and shit out some seeds somewhere else. Thats what plants do, the evolve an advantage. cannabis's advantage is the THC and the effect it has on anything that ingests it.
Thats most likely why the male doesn't produce THC, no seeds to poop out if u eat him. he does his job and just adds some more nitro to the soil locally for the next batch. The females grow big ole stinky fruits that will bring in anything that recognizes it from miles away (animal sense of smell, hell a few stoners i know too) have you ever smelled a plant before and after its been dusted? the smell changes a lot and it becomes a lot more abrasive i feel, probably more noticeable amongst non impregnated buds. I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.
basically instead of sugar or starch or whatever else most other fruits and vegetables produce cannabis got THC instead. and I'm sure glad
Male's - specifically prized breeding males - are often very high in THC content and you can litterally smoke them to get high. No one does this of course because its in efficient compared to growing a female for consumption purposes. do some reading on this.
HGK420
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Ive never found any test results on males but low% is all I've ever really read about. The mythical "smokeable males" that people talk about always sounded like BS to me and are probably extremely rare out in the wild. if you got average male next to ur average female all sweaty and juicy I'm gonna eat that one if I'm a deer lol hell il probably just eat it all. even when the male gets eaten it shakes the pollen loose. for the wind to spread around. whats a male and a female really even a female can make male flowers. (i bet a male can make a female bud too if need be?)
Basically what i was trying to say with the first post is that they developed a trick and the world accepted it. (with vigor in my case
)
http://video.pbs.org/video/1283872815
This is a great documentary on the evolution of plants and who really might be running this planet. its called the botany of desire i definitely recommend it.
Basically what i was trying to say with the first post is that they developed a trick and the world accepted it. (with vigor in my case
)http://video.pbs.org/video/1283872815
This is a great documentary on the evolution of plants and who really might be running this planet. its called the botany of desire i definitely recommend it.
Huel Perkins
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I've seen males get frosty with trichs back when I used to grow outdoors sewing thousands of bag seeds each year...
i seriously think there was some crazy Chinese alchemist running around Asia smoking up everything he found ... and was like nice when he found these beautiful girls
I have a friend that believes just that ... it kinda makes sense... think about it we have semi webbed hands and feet, no hair (compared to other mammals), one of the few mammals that a baby instinctively holds breath under water... idk maybe