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History of the Cannabis Plant: From Asia to Every Marijuana Dispensary, Portland

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Cannabis is a plant that belongs to the Cannabaceae family. It's native to Central or South Asia, or to be more specific, China. Here's how it has taken its route around the world until it became legalized. Now you can find cannabis in dispensaries throughout Portland today. How Cannabis Usage Evolved  Cannabis is exploited industrially for the quality of its fibers in the form of “agricultural hemp“ and is often low in psychotropic principle (THC). Meanwhile, cannabis intended for recreational or medicinal uses is rich in psychotropic (THC).   Many cannabis lines have been created by humans by hybridization between subspecies or varieties of the genus, by a selection of plants, or by cuttings that allows them to be cloned identically. Thus, the plants are sorted according to the use that one wishes to make of them. These can be the quality of their fibers, the richness in oil of their seeds (hemp seed), their low rate of THC, or, on the contrary, their high concentration of c...