- Because the more you know!
Do you know these fun facts about pot? It used to be used as medicine, even back in the day!
- Cannabis can trigger or worsen psychotic symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia especially in people with a genetic vulnerability or those who started using it young.
- The first use of cannabis on record was in China in 2373 B.C.E. At the time, the “father of Chinese medicine,” used marijuana for treating conditions like malaria and poor memory. This is one of the best fun facts about pot!
- Legal marijuana products have lower levels of pesticides and contaminants than illegal products do.
- For ancient cultures, they didn’t grow cannabis to get high but to use it as herbal medicine. This practice was thought to have happened as early as 500 B.C. in Asia.
- Research has shown that using marijuana can affect you in various ways such as impairing your memory, attention, learning, and decision-making, therefore affecting academic and occupational performance and overall achievement.
- Cannabis use can have positive effects on mental health such as reducing depression, PTSD and social anxiety.
- Eating or drinking cannabis can produce effects after 2 hours, but they last for up to 24 hours.
- The United States has been using cannabis since the early 1900s. Between 1916 and 1931, 29 states outlawed marijuana and The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 banned its use across the nation. Did you know this history and these fun facts about pot? Or in this case, not so fun.
- Scholars suggest the ancient drug “soma,” also called Vedas in some religious texts, was actually cannabis. Though this has been disputed throughout history.
- Along was his guitar and Bible, Bob Marley was also buried with a bud of marijuana.
- Using cannabis can affect the cardiovascular system, increasing heart rate and blood pressure and reducing oxygen levels. These effects can increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and irregular heartbeat.
- Traditional, the word “canvas” and “cannabis” were linked due to the first canvases being made out of hemp.
- Long-term use of cannabis can result in changes of the brain structure and function and even more so for adolescents who use a lot, regularly.
- Common strains of cannabis include Sour Diesel, Blue Dream, Girl Scout Cookies, OG Cush and Pineapple Express.
- Cannabis use is highest among people aged 18-25 at 34%, according to a 2019 national survey. It also indicated that American Indian/Alaskan Natives use it at a rate of 19%, people with some college education at 16% and people with an income of less than $20K at 18%, and finally, people living in the West, at 18%.
- The Scythians, Thracians, and Dacians were among the first to use cannabis for its psychoactive effects. Cannabis was burned to induce a trance-like state and to inhale the vapors.
- There are over 100 compounds called cannabinoids and hundreds of terpenes, which interact with receptors in the brain and body to produce different effects. How cool is this as one of the fun facts about pot?
- Using marijuana can result in short-term health effects like increased heart rate and blood pressure, and also red eyes, dry mouth and throat and coughing and wheezing.
- You can smoke, eat, vape, drink or topically apply cannabis.
- Depending on how you consume cannabis, it can affect how long it takes to feel it, how long it will last and the intensity of the high (including its side effects.)
- If you vape or smoke cannabis, you will feel the effects within minutes but it will only last a few hours
- The Chinese character for hemp is two plants under a shelter.
- Cannabis cultivation goes back at least 3,000 years in Taiwan.
- CBD is another important cannabinoid that has anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant and neuroprotective properties. CBD is short for cannabidiol.
Did you know these fun facts about pot? Let me know what you think about them in the comments!