Random Cannabis Facts

The most random facts about Cannabis that we could find:

1.) According to the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy, every day, approximately 6,000 Americans try cannabis for the first time.

2.) There are well over 200 slang terms for cannabis. Some of them include: marijuana, weed, grass, pot, green, ganja, and bud

3.) Cannabis is the second most commonly used recreational drug in the world, right behind alcohol. 

4.) Paraguay is believed to be the worlds largest producer of Cannabis.

5.) Canada became the first country to offer medical cannabis in 2003.

6.) Cannabis promotes dopamine production in the human brain.

7.) A 2011 study showed that teens now smoke more cannabis than they do cigarettes.

8.) A person would have to smoke around 800 joints in one sitting in order to die from it. Even then the cause of death would be carbon monoxide poisoning. 

9.) The first American law regarding Cannabis required farmers to grow it for hemp.

10.) Only the female cannabis plant can get someone high.

11.) More than 800,000 people are arrested every year for using cannabis.

12.) The majority of Americans now support cannabis legalization. 

13.) Cannabis dispensaries outnumber Starbucks in Denver.

14.) The trapped Chilean miners were given cannabis to smoke according to this story.

15.) 14.6 million Americans smoke Cannabis on a regular basis.