Natur of the genus Cannabis

[remdog]

Just curious of what others think on the orgins of cannabis as a genus. Some interesting facts I have read about it are first of all the potent odor we all know and love was belived to be devolped by the plant so that animals would not eat the plant. also as defense the plant relases a sticky reason to capture and kill insects who intrude on the plant. we all know what this resin is.


to me, through what i know about evolutionary biology and what i think the orgins of marijuana use are i can proove it is medicine.
is it possible then that animals ate the plant when they felt sick knowing that eating it would make it healthy and that this shared knowledge led to the demise of cannabis plants so as evolution to increase fitness the plant devolped these defense mechinisms?


the earliest signs of human use were in asia where it was used as both medicine and as a source of fiber, the same reasons use in the US- hemp was used for making clothing and smoking the sensimilla was used to treat body aches, nasuea and other various diseases.

what are your opinons of the orgin of the cannabis plant we know and love today, both biologicaly and recreatunly