Marihuana / Marijuana was the name selected by the prohibicionistas ideologists to discredit the cannabis, and few at the time imagined that “the killer grass” was the same plant that was cultivated extensively under the name of hemp (hemp). The fact of being a word by Latin roots reflected also inherent racism to the American laws antidrug, conceived in fact to repress ethnic sectors considered undesirable by the white elite. But for a long time the marijuana, like word, has been going dissident alongside and now belongs to the cannábica culture in general, with a very concrete meaning: those plants with a sufficient content of THC like placing.
Cannabis is the taxonomic name of the plant that also we know like hemp or marijuana. Sativa cannabis, East Indian Cannabis and Cannabis ruderalis are the main ancestries of the species. This taxonomic name usually is used in medicinal and legislative contexts like synonymous of the marijuana. In the associative scope, the term cannabis conserves its scientific meaning to embark all the members of the taxonomic family without distinctions because of its later use.
Hemp is the denomination that we used to define those varieties of the Cannabis whose aim is industrialist, nutritional or for other nonpsychoactive aims. Usually they are of low content of THC to fulfill the legal requirements for its culture, being appraised the plants by the length of the fibers of the stem that are used in the manufacture of weaves and paper. The hemp also has demonstrated to be a renewable resource with a high ecological value as much in its culture as its processing and later manufacture.
