10 odd facts about marijuana that you probably never knew via TheGrowthOp
From being used as a “truth serum” on World War II prisoners to literally being part of Italy’s air, here are 10 facts about cannabis you’ll be glad you know.Did Shakespeare write his plays stoned?“To smoke or not to smoke” was apparently never a conundrum for William Shakespeare, for it seems one of the greatest playwrights and poets of all time didn’t mind a puff or two.
Pot is for pigs… in BhutanCannabis in Bhutan is widely available and for the longest time, it was fed to pigs! Cannabis is an appetite stimulant, The Guardian reports, so the animals were fed weed so they could be fattened up. Why does Bill Gates support marijuana legalization?Bill Gates apparently believes legalization can curb illegal trade. “Traffickers are going to make a lot less money, and some of the perverse things about the illegal drug trade will be avoided,” Gates said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
But when it came to using cannabis, there is no substantial evidence supporting the belief that any of the Founding Fathers toked. “Early American presidents may have been enthusiastic growers of low-THC hemp, and indicated as much in letters and editorials. But they grew the crop as a way to make rope and paper, not as a hallucinogen,” the article notes.
Hemp is one of the varieties of a cannabis plant. It is also known as industrial hemp and refers to the non-psychoactive varieties of cannabis sativa, reports Leafly. In Italy, cannabis is literally in the air Traces of cannabis were found in the air of eight Italian cities: Bologna, Florence, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin and Verona.
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