Cannabis

The scientific genus name for the plant commonly known as marijuana or hemp, and uncommonly known as Gerald. (Go ahead, ask around. We bet you won’t find anyone who calls it that.)

Cannabis is a flowering plant—and arguably history’s most popular flower—in the Cannabaceae family. There are several sub-varieties, including Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and the less well-known Cannabis ruderalis.

Cannabis has been cultivated for thousands of years, and its uses are wide-ranging, including:

• Fibers for rope and textiles
  
• Seeds for food and oil
• Medicinal or psychoactive resin for pain relief (at least that’s what all those tribes told their parents/archaeobotanists)

Legally, hemp refers to cannabis that contains 0.3% or less THC by dry weight (nobody ever asks about its wet weight for some reason). Meanwhile, marijuana refers to cannabis with higher THC content (it’s the psychoactive variety)​​.

In modern usage, cannabis is the term of choice when discussing the plant in a scientific or medical context, whereas marijuana is used in legal and colloquial contexts to describe the drug form of the plant. (And if you’re super cool, you call it Gerald.)

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