Cannabis : evolution and ethnobotany / Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013Copyright date: Edition: Limited hardcover editionDescription: xv, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520270480 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520270487 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.29/5 23
LOC classification:
  • SB295.C35 C54 2013
Contents:
Introduction to the multipurpose plant Cannabis -- Natural origins and early evolution of Cannabis -- Ethnobotanical origins, early cultivation, and evolution through human selection -- The cultural diffusion of Cannabis -- History of Cannabis use for fiber -- Food, feed, and oil uses of hemp -- Historical aspects of psychoactive Cannabis use for ritual and recreation -- Ethnobotanical history and contemporary context of medicinal Cannabis -- Nonpsychoactive ritual uses of Cannabis -- Recent history of Cannabis breeding -- Classical and molecular taxonomy of Cannabis -- Hypotheses concerning the early evolution of Cannabis -- Cannabis and Homo sapiens.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-425) and index.

Introduction to the multipurpose plant Cannabis -- Natural origins and early evolution of Cannabis -- Ethnobotanical origins, early cultivation, and evolution through human selection -- The cultural diffusion of Cannabis -- History of Cannabis use for fiber -- Food, feed, and oil uses of hemp -- Historical aspects of psychoactive Cannabis use for ritual and recreation -- Ethnobotanical history and contemporary context of medicinal Cannabis -- Nonpsychoactive ritual uses of Cannabis -- Recent history of Cannabis breeding -- Classical and molecular taxonomy of Cannabis -- Hypotheses concerning the early evolution of Cannabis -- Cannabis and Homo sapiens.

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