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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Cotton, Soybean, Banana, Gossypium, Flax, Cannabis, Linen, Ceiba pentandra, Cyperus papyrus, Abaca, Hemp, Jute, Stinging nettle, Roselle, Okra, Phormium, Kenaf, Coir, Ramie, Rattan, Jute trade, Salvia hispanica, Cannabis sativa, Fique, Mulukhiyah, Jute cultivation, Corchorus, Agave americana, Sesbania bispinosa, Cannabis indica, Gossypium barbadense, Apocynum cannabinum, Pina, Yucca schidigera, Tricahostigma octandrum, Fiber crop, Gossypium arboreum, Totora, Kiekie, Esparto, Cannabis ruderalis, Mercerised cotton, Hesperostipa comata, Bast fibre, Musa basjoo, Agave fourcroydes, Pulu, Phormium tenax, Chaguar, Supima, Bamboo fibre, Gossypium hirsutum, Iris macrosiphon, Musa alinsanaya, Gossypium herbaceum, Ampelodesmos, Sansevieria ehrenbergii, Linum bienne, Luffa aegyptiaca, Manila hemp, Stipa spartea, Hemp woman, Piassava. Excerpt: Cannabis (Can-na-bis; English pronunciation: ) is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. These three taxa are indigenous to Central Asia, and South Asia. Cannabis has long been used for fibre (hemp), for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug. Industrial hemp products are made from Cannabis plants selected to produce an abundance of fiber. To satisfy the UN Narcotics Convention, some hemp strains have been developed which contain minimal levels of THC ( - tetrahydrocannabinol), one of the psychoactive molecules that produces the "high" associated with marijuana. The psychoactive product consists of dried flowers of plants selectively bred to produce high levels of THC and other psychoactive chemicals. Various extracts including hashish and hash oil are also produced from the plant. The word cannabis is from Greek () (see Latin ), which was originally Scythian or Thracian. It...
