Cannabis is an annual herbaceous flowering plant first classified by Carl Linnaeus in 1753; its specific epithet sativa means cultivated. Indigenous to Eastern Asia, it is now of cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation, and it has been used throughout recorded history as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food and medicine, as well as a recreational drug and for religious and spiritual purposes.
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Relationship to People Relationship to PeopleFarmed or Commercially Raised 1 Relationship to PeopleUsed in Traditional Medicine 1 Living or Extinct In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
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1. Cannabis (Cannabis sativa) (Wikipedia)
- present tense, cosmopolitan distribution
- The specific epithet sativa means 'cultivated'...cultivated throughout recorded history
- used as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, and medicine
- cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation
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