What Are Your Thoughts?

[mibrains]

"Marihuana" means that term as defined in section 7106 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.7106

 

i am wondering if all of the laws in the state of Michigan reference this same location for the official definition for cannabis...

 

and if so...

 

and if the MMMA excludes it by definition... then the PHC must also i should assume since they reference the legal definition of marihuana as cannabis sativa from the same place.

 

is cannabis indica legally defined in the state of Michigan?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_indica

 

is cannabis ruderalis legally defined in the state of Michigan?

 

http://en.wikipedia....nabis_ruderalis

[mibrains]

In 1785, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a description of a second species of Cannabis, which he named Cannabis indica. Lamarck based his description of the newly named species on plant specimens collected in India. Richard Evans Schultes described C. indica as relatively short, conical, and densely branched, whereas C. sativa was described as tall and laxly branched.^[3]

 

http://en.wikipedia....Cannabis_indica

[mibrains]

Afghanica is what you would consider a land race Indica. I think more of a indica sub group, but you could probably say the Chinesis and other(gigantica) are sativa sub groups land race species as well. They are all officially separate species of the same genus.

 

EDIT: It seems the law doesn't specify the family just the species, I wouldn't want to be the person to find out.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landrace

A landrace is a local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species which has developed largely by natural processes, by adaptation to the natural and cultural environment in which it lives. It differs from a formal breed which has been selectively bred deliberately to conform to a particular formal, purebreed standard of traits. Landraces are usually more genetically and physically diverse than formal breeds. Many formal breeds originated from attempts to make landraces more consistent, and sometimes a particular type has both landrace and formal breed populations. Sometimes a formalised breed retains a landrace name, despite no longer being a true landrace. When an animal landrace is codified as a pedigree breed without significant selective breeding to alter it, though often to lock in its defining traits, it is often referred to as a natural breed or traditional breed by breeder and fancier organisations. Similarly, the term traditional variety is sometimes applied to plant landraces.

 

Landraces are distinct from ancestral species of modern stock, and from separate species or subspecies derived from the same ancestor as modern domestic stock. Landraces are not all derived from ancient stock unmodified by human breeding interests. In a number of cases, most commonly dogs, domestic animals have reverted to "wild" status by escaping in sufficient numbers in an area to breed feral populations that, through evolutionary pressure, form new landraces in only a few centuries. Modern plant cultivars can also fairly quickly produce new landraces through undirected breeding.

[mibrains]

is cannabis indica legally defined in the state of Michigan?

 

 

 

Kingdom

Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom

Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision

Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division

Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants

Class

Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons

Subclass

Hamamelididae

Order

Urticales

Family

Cannabaceae – Hemp family

Genus

Cannabis L. – hemp

Species

Cannabis sativa L. – marijuana

Subspecies

Cannabis sativa L. ssp. indica (Lam.) E. Small & Cronquist – marijuana

[mibrains]

this list seems to be in contrast to the history...

 

i have to ask before i mosey off to bed..

 

is indica a species or subspecies.

[mibrains]

Cannabis sativa, C. indica, and C. ruderalis are all species of the genus Cannabis. They can all inter-breed freely, and many 'pedigree' cultivars are indica/sativa hybrids. Authorities disagree about the number of species of plant which constitute the genus Cannabis. Although many authorities continue to class all varieties of the plant, including hemp and marijuana, as Cannabis sativa, it is widely accepted that there are three separate species or sub-species.

[OG Fire Beaster]

wiki

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis

 

The Cannabis genus was first classified using the "modern" system of taxonomic nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753, who devised the system still in use for the naming of species.^[37] He considered the genus to be monotypic, having just a single species that he named Cannabis sativa L. (L. stands for Linnaeus, and indicates the authority who first named the species). Linnaeus was familiar with European hemp, which was widely cultivated at the time. In 1785, noted evolutionary biologist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck published a description of a second species of Cannabis, which he named Cannabis indica Lam.^[38] Lamarck based his description of the newly named species on plant specimens collected in India. He described C. indica as having poorer fiber quality than C. sativa, but greater utility as an inebriant. Additional Cannabis species were proposed in the 19th century, including strains from China and Vietnam (Indo-China) assigned the names Cannabis chinensis Delile, and Cannabis gigantea Delile ex Vilmorin.^[39] However, many taxonomists found these putative species difficult to distinguish. In the early 20th century, the single-species concept was still widely accepted, except in the Soviet Union where Cannabis continued to be the subject of active taxonomic study. The name Cannabis indica was listed in various Pharmacopoeias, and was widely used to designate Cannabis suitable for the manufacture of medicinal preparations.^[40]

 

 

YEARBOOK OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE--1913, pages 283-346.

http://naihc.org/hem...ntent/1913.html

 

According to this one Sativa is accepted as a blanket term for all of the species/subspecies.

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Found this comment interesting.

 

http://www.bluelight...nabis-Chinensis

 

01-08-2004(AUG)

 

Hello I am somewhat new to this forum but can say I have a good deal of knowlege regarding cannabis.

In extended convesations with Rob Clarke , author of "Marijuana Botany"He and I are quite confident Cannabis is in fact a monospecies of multivariant phenotype.Phenotypical differences are attributed to acclimatization and exploitation of available habitat.

Geneticly No species specific crossing anomilies arise also supporting the monospecies multiphenotype model of cannabis.

Edited March 2, 2013 by OG Fire Beaster

[BirdHunter]

Courts will simply call it all sativa.

[Ms Chocolate]

i would like to take a moment to ask a question ms c. it might derail your thread a bit.

Yea, it did. LOL

[GregS]

So apparently indica is a subspecies of sativa. Thanks for that.