Weed, (sort Cannabis), variety of therapeutic, sporting, and fiber plants having a place with the family Cannabaceae. By certain characterizations, the variety Cannabis contains a solitary animal types, hemp (Cannabis sativa), a heavy, sweet-smelling, erect yearly spice that began in Central Asia and is presently developed around the world. A tall canelike assortment is raised for the development of hemp fiber, while the female plants of a short branchier assortment are valued as the more bountiful wellspring of the psychoactive substance tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the dynamic element of cannabis. See likewise clinical marijuana.
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Morphological contrasts in wild and developed types of marijuana have presented ordered vulnerabilities. Henceforth, notwithstanding C. sativa, a few researchers think about the variety as including a subsequent animal categories, C. indica, and surprisingly a third, C. ruderalis. These two species are additionally here and there treated as subspecies of C. sativa.