Which Part of the World Do Cannabis Plants Grow Naturally in the Wild?
Cannabis originates in the himalayas, near Tibet. The chinese used it for a time, but then discovered opium & it lost favour with them. Around the same time the seeds were scattered around & it spread to India where they found various medicinal uses for it & made rope & oils with it. The arabs planted it in & around Afghanistan. Some of the fields have been cultivated for more than a 1000 years. The first definite record of the marijuana plant in the New World dates from 1545 A.D, when the Spaniards introduced it into Chile. It has been suggested, however, that African slaves familiar with marijuana as an intoxicant and medicine brought the seeds with them to Brazil even earlier in the sixteenth century. There are certain parts of Colombia in South America, where there are records of some wild plants growing as tall as 5 storeys high.
