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Present in industrial hemp, cannabidiol is a major constituent among some 560 compounds found in hemp. [95] Cannabis sativa L. subsp. sativa var. sativa is the variety grown for industrial use, while C. sativa subsp. indica generally has poor fiber quality and female buds from this variety are primarily used for recreational and medicinal purposes.
In Western Europe, while the cultivation of hemp was still legal in the 1930s, commercial cultivation had stopped due to decreased demand; hemp could not compete with increasingly popular artificial fibers. [59] In the early 1940s, world production of hemp fiber ranged from 250,000 to 350,000 metric tonnes, with Russia being the leading producer.
It also is a useful source of foodstuffs (hemp milk, hemp seed, hemp oil) and biofuels. Hemp has been used by many civilizations, from China to Europe (and later North America) during the last 12,000 years. [121] [122] In modern times novel applications and improvements have been explored with modest commercial success. [123] [124]
Raphael Mechoulam [a] (Hebrew: רפאל משולם; 5 November 1930 – 9 March 2023) was a Bulgarian-born Israeli organic chemist and a professor in the Department of Natural Materials at the School of Pharmacy in the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The plant is also known as hemp, although this term is usually used to refer only to varieties cultivated for non-drug use. Hemp has long been used for fibre, seeds and their oils, leaves for use as vegetables, and juice. Industrial hemp textile products are made from cannabis plants selected to produce an abundance of fibre.
A Swedish encyclopedia from 1912 claim that European hemp, the raw material for Maltos-Sugar, almost lacked the narcotic effect that is typical for Indian hemp and that products from Indian hemp was abandon by modern science for medical use. Maltos-Cannabis was promoted with text about its content of maltose sugar. [25]
Scientists studying fossils found in Spain say they may have found the world's 'first flower.' Kind of. Researchers were studying fossils of a freshwater plant species known as Montsechia vidalii ...
In 1985, Ben Dronkers opened the Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, [6] the world's first museum devoted to cannabis. Years later, he opened a second location in Barcelona. The museum shows the past, present and future of the cannabis plant, emphasizing that cannabis will be the "penicillin of the future" due to its use in the medical ...