Cannabis - Marijuana - Hashish

Evidence of the use of cannabis will have since the time of the Neolithic as evidenced by the discovery of some fossilized seeds in a cave in Romania. The most famous smokers of cannabis were the antiquity of Hindu India and Nepal and Hashashin present in Syria, which was named the Hashish. Cannabis was also used by the Assyrians, who discovered its psychoactive properties by the Arians, and thanks to them, was made known and also use a Traciani and Shiites, who also served for religious rites. In 2003 China was found in a leather bag containing some traces of cannabis and seeds dating back 2500 years ago. Ganja is the term in ancient Sanskrit language for Cannabis, associated mainly to Jamaican Creole culture that uses this term to indicate the marijuana, considered by Rastafariani for meditation and prayer.

The Cannabis plant is a herbaceous annual cycle. The height varies between 1.5 - 2 m, but cultivated subspecies can reach up to 5 meters. Presents a long taproot and root to a stem, erect or branched, with hardwood lump, angled, sometimes hollow, especially above the first pair of leaves.
The leaves are petiolate and with stipole, each and palm trees, consisting of 5-13 leaves lanceolate, margin serrate-toothed, with knife-edged up to 10 cm in length and 1.5 cm wide

The male flowers (staminiferi) are gathered in terminal panicles, and each has 5 tepali fused at the base and 5 stamens.
The female flowers (pistilliferi) are gathered in groups of 2-6 to the armpits of bracts forming ear court, each shows a glass membrane that closely envelops the ovary and excess uniloculare, topped with two styles and two stigmas.
The plant germinates in spring and blooms in summer. The pollination is anemofila (transport through the wind). Appear in the autumn fruit, the achenes hard and globular, each trattenente a seed with a fleshy endosperm and embryo curved.

The psychoactive preparations such as hashish and marijuana are the resin and female inflorescences obtained precisely from the genotype-THCA synthase.

MARIJUANA

The term refers to marijuana female inflorescences tanned and dried cannabis plants belonging preferably, but not necessarily, the genotype THCAS (vulgarly "cannabis"). In all the varieties of hemp contains several psychoactive drugs, including the principal and tetrahydrocannabinol. The plant material or preparations that contain appreciable extent psychoactive substances are considered to be part of the so-called "soft drugs".

The term marijuana is the common name by which Mexico is indicated when the plant is intended to obtain the drugs. The use of the term marijuana is then circulated throughout the world conveyed by the media since the first half of last century. Hemp leaf is a symbol of media marijuana, not because poor people smoke in active and rich in chlorophyll, which exacerbates the typical sweet taste of the inflorescences.

In March 2007, the scientific journal The Lancet publishes a study that highlights marijuana less dangerous than alcohol, nicotine or benzodiazepines.

Hashish

The hashish is a psychoactive drug derived from the resin of the Cannabis plant, whose effects are mainly due to the THC in it (in quantities greater than the marijuana).

The name "Hashish" derives from حشيش ASIS (and by a group of devotees of a fanatic Ismailia, which made use of hashish, حشاشين ḥaššāšīn, derives the word "murderess"). It is said that this substance was given in recruitment to sicarii performers to drive away their anxiety and get them without difficulty to make the murders.

The effects induced by the use of this substance, which is usually smoked with tobacco, but it can also be ingested, are diverse, they have different intensity depending on the subject, from psycho-physical circumstances in which it takes, and dell'assuefazione of a smoker. In addition to common side effects with the consumption of tobacco, the main effects are:

• relaxation
• mitigation of natural reactivity
• amplification of sensory perception and aesthetic experience
• temporary lowering of blood pressure
• feeling of change in the perceptions
• unconditional laughter
• focus to the cognitive distortion of reality
• temporary distortion of memory
• increase in the fall of fame (Fame Chimica)
• decreased salivation

• disorientation
• nausea
• sense of loss
• apathy