Describe the origin of the term marijuana as portrayed

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Question 1: "Cannabis recognized that this [ability to intoxicate humans] was its path to world domination." - Michael Pollan
What did Pollan mean by this anthropomorphic statement?

Question 2: ""Human beings are born with an innate drive to experience other states of consciousness, periodically."
Andrew Weil

Question 3: "Do you agree that this desire for intoxication is a universal human trait?

Pollan and others in the film allude to the cultural variation with respect to the acceptability of intoxicants, such that the same drug can be celebrated in one culture and taboo in another. What, do you think, is the cause for this variation?
Describe the origin of the term "marijuana" as portrayed in the film.
Contrast the cognitive symptoms of marijuana intoxication (described during the black-and-white clip in The Botany of Desire) with those of other drugs discussed thus far in HE-160.
How did the spraying of paraquat in Mexico in the late 1970s - early 1980s influence the cannabis market in the United States?
Describe the rationale behind the cross-breeding of C.sativa and C.indica.
How do commercial growers accelerate the production of cannabis resin?
What did Raphael Mechoulam discover in a Jerusalem lab in 1964?
Describe the implications suggested in the film of the discovery of anandamide in 1992.
What do you make of the Amsterdam cannabis shop depicted in the film?

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