This site is an assignment for Karen Bernd's From Venoms and Toxins to Drugs at Davidson College.
It is designed for educational puposes only,
and is NOT involved in the distribution or selling of marijuana.


Marijuana --Cannabis sativa-- has been harvested for thousands of years for various uses, and has wide-ranging social, political, medical and economic implications.  This site gives a glimpse into those implications, studying the plant itself, its cellular mechanism, and its neurological effects. 

The Basics

Effects on the Body

Cellular Mechanism

Interesting Facts

Bibliography

Extra Pictures
 

Photograph courtesy of www.cannabinoid.com

(Photo on previous page, coutesy of Jean Hanamoto).
If you have any concerns or comments, email them, sparingly, to jecone@davidson.edu.