ico, Egypt, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru and Morocco, but production in the United States has been escalating in recent years. There is also a high-grade variety called "Thai stick," which is grown in Thailand. Mountainous regions within dry, equatorial climates are the prime locals for the growth of cannabis for marijuana purposes. [1] Keep Off The Grass [2] The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs; Marijuana: Its Effects On Mind And Body [3] Reefer Madness [4] The Marijuana Conviction [5] Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language Various forms of the drug are known by many different names throughout the world, such as "kif" in Morocco, "dagga" in South Africa, and "ganja" in India. Hashish, or "hash," refers to the dried, resinous substance which exudes from the flowering tops of the plant and is much higher in THC content* than ordinary marijuana, which is taken from the lower, less potent leaves of the plant. In our Western culture, the various cannabis preparations have acquired many different nicknames, including "grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, bush, smoke" and "Mary Jane" or "Mary Warner." Over the centuries, marijuana has been smoked, eaten in cakes and drunk in beverages, but in Western culture, it is most often a tobacco-like mixture which is either smoked in a pipe or rolled into cigarettes: "joints, bones," and in earlier times, "reefers". Marijuana is grouped in with the government legislation-controlled drugs known as narcotics. Generally, these drugs dull the mind's perception of pain, and in medicine, the authorized ones are used as painkillers, or analgesics. Being such greatly explains their potential for abuse, especially among the disenfranchised and those with deep-seated emotional pain, or even those with psychosomatic ills stemming from emotional problems. The more dangerous ones produce a strong high and are intensely dependency-producing. [1] Today, the sale of marijuana in the United States ...
