| Description |
1 online resource (598 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author; Executive Summary; Cautions; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Cannabis Plant; "Cannabis"-A Comprehensive Term; The Widespread Misunderstanding That Marijuana Is "Flowers" of Cannabis sativa; Why Cannabis Is Controversial; Sexual Reproduction in Cannabis; How the Four Kinds of Horses Are Similar to the Four Kinds of Cannabis sativa; Wild Plants; Fiber Plants; Other So-Called "Hemps"; "Indian Hemp"; Oilseed Plants; Intoxicating Drug Plants; Genetic Relationships of Different Kinds of Cannabis Plants |
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The Criminalization and Suppression of CannabisThe Relegitimization of Cannabis; The Decriminalization and Resurrection of Industrial (Nonintoxicating) Cannabis; "Hemp" vs. "Marijuana"; The Decriminalization and Resurrection of Medical Cannabis; The Decriminalization and Resurrection of Recreational Cannabis; Benefit/Harm Analysis of the Many Ways That Cannabis Is Used; The Interface of Cannabis Science and Public Policy; Curiosities of Science, Technology, and Human Behavior; Chapter 2: Prehuman and Early History of Cannabis sativa; The Family Tree and Prehuman Antiquity of Cannabis sativa |
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The Incredibly Parallel Histories of Cannabis and Its Closest Relative, Humulus (Hop)Uncertainty Regarding the Early Historical Association of Cannabis and People; Location of the Prehuman Distribution Range; The Habitat of Ancient Wild Cannabis sativa; The "Camp-Follower" Model of Early Domestication of Cannabis sativa; How Adaptation to Streamside Soils Led to Water-Based Fiber Extraction; Earliest Geographical Centers of the Four Kinds of Domesticated Cannabis sativa; Early Old World Geography of Fiber and Marijuana Classes of Cannabis sativa |
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Early Migrations of Fiber and Marijuana Kinds of Domesticated Cannabis sativaCuriosities of Science, Technology, and Human Behavior; Chapter 3:The Ecology of Wild Cannabis sativa; The Nature of "Wildness"; Evaluating Wildness in Cannabis sativa Populations; Geography of Wild Cannabis sativa; Habitats and Plant Communities Occupied; Climate Limitations; Temperature; Water; Light Intensity; Photoperiod; Edaphic (Soil) Limitations; Seed Ecology; Appearance; Size; Seed Shedding; Protective Thick Shell; Camouflage; Germination Behavior; Dormancy; Longevity |
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Environmental Factors Controlling GerminationSeedling Development; Seed Distribution Agents; Birds; Water; Mammals; Insects; Allelopathy; Root Ecology; Stem Ecology; Phenotypic Plasticity: A Key to Success; Biotic Competitors; Human Eradication Efforts; Pests and Diseases; Curiosities of Science, Technology, and Human Behavior; Chapter 4: Sex Expression; What Is "Sex" in Flowering Plants?; Maleness and Femaleness in Cannabis in Comparison to Other Flowering Plants; Differences between Male and Female Cannabis Plants; Male Plants and Their Flowers; Pollen Dispersal |
| Notes |
Female Plants and the Pollination of Their Flowers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cannabis.
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Marijuana.
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Hemp -- Utilization
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Cannabis
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Marijuana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016009739 |
| ISBN |
9781498761642 |
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149876164X |
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9781315350592 |
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1315350599 |
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9781315331560 |
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131533156X |
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9781315367583 |
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1315367580 |
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