10 Fun Cannabis Facts and Pop Culture Trivia
Although you normally think of just THC and CBD, there are actually 113 known naturally occurring cannabinoids. These different cannabinoids, which produce varying psychoactive and physical effects, are found in varying concentrations depending on the strain of cannabis. Even though we don’t fully understand the effects of every cannabinoid, the effects of the most commonly occurring cannabinoids are well understood. This allows us to target certain ailments or desired effects with specific strains that contain varying levels of the different cannabinoids. A simple example of this would be consuming a high CBD strain for its pain relieving effects.
Information on cannabinoids and their effects: https://www.verilife.com/blog/guide-cannabinoids-and-their-effects
Cannabis is one of humanity’s oldest crops according to the book Marihuana: The First 12,000 Years. Meaning people have been using cannabis for 12,000 years.
Cannabis was the first product ever sold online.In the early 1970s, students at Stanford used their ARPANET accounts at Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to connect with students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in order to arrange a cannabis sale.
United States grows the largest amount of Cannabis in the world. The second country in line is Morocco.
The Largest Cannabis Seizure was over 6 Million Pounds, According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the “bulkiest drug seizure” of cannabis was 2,903 metric tons, or 6.4 million pounds — all of which came from a Colombian drug operation in 1982 – which ended up being one-fifth of the total amount of cannabis being illegally imported into the United States per year at the time
Bill Gates and other investors have secured a “doomsday seed vault” to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Cool!
George Washington grew cannabis at Mount Vernon. He called it hemp.
In 1976, an art student changed the Hollywood sign to read “Hollyweed” after the passage of a state law decriminalizing cannabis.
Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar, a Bible open to Psalms 23 and a cannabis bud. For those of you who need a scripture primer (We confess we had to double check) the 23rd Psalm begins, “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures” We hope Mr. Marley is indeed kicked back in a fragrant green field of his favorite herb.