First off, let’s discuss where the word “weed” came from. Weed is a slang term for cannabis. It’s probably the most common phrase for cannabis today, behind marijuana, of course. Consider it an updated version of pot, made mainstream by the younger generation of tokers. However, the word wasn’t always as mainstream.
“Weed” has been used as early as the pre-Reefer Madness days of 1929, when American Speech, the academic journal dedicated to the English language, included “weed” in its “Among the New Words” section as a term meaning “marijuana cigarette.” Additionally, “weed” was used for the first time without the word “the” in front in the 1949 Raymond Chandler novel The Little Sister, with the novelist writing, “They were looking for … a suitcase full of weed.”
What is cannabis flower ?
Flower, also called “bud,” refers to the smokeable part of the cannabis plant that has gone through the cultivation, harvest, drying, and curing process. Cannabis flower continues to be a popular choice for its versatility, offering numerous methods of consumption, such as being smoked using a pipe or bong, or by rolling it into a joint or blunt.
As noted above, cannabis Flower refers to the smokable section of the cannabis plant, also known as nuggets, nugs, or bud. In the common parlance of combusting cannabis, users grind Flower before smoking, packing, or decarbing it as ground cannabis burns more evenly and can be much more easily manipulated, be it in a bowl or measured in a cup and poured onto a baking sheet.
Cannabis that is purchased at a dispensary is known as loose Flower, that is, flowers purchased on their own are loose from the cannabis plant itself. Users aren’t purchasing stems, leaves, or seeds — just Flower. The other form of non-combusted Flower available for purchase comes in cylindrical or conelike marijuana cigarettes known as joints, prerolls or blunts. With these products, producers gather ground cannabis and roll it into prerolls to offer consumers a high-quality combusting experience with the utmost convenience — the grinding, rolling, packing, and wrapping have been expertly done for you.
The quality of prerolls can vary, but as cannabis competition widens, less and less will be stuffed with low-quality bud, stems, and leaves. But as with any product, the scale of quality ranges from terrible to mind-bending. Some prerolls are packed with top-quality cannabis, shot through with grade-A Wax, dipped in potent cannabis oil, and sprinkled with kief. Your mileage will vary.
What about the plant thing?
Well, cannabis is a plant. All buds derive from a plant and therefore, all cannabis is from a plant. So, when you consume cannabis, you will always be consuming a type of plant.
Now that we have weed and plants covered, let’s move on to the definition of a flower. A flower is the seed-bearing part of the plant that blooms, and when it comes to cannabis, a flower refers to the weed you purchase in a dispensary that you would bring home to consume. Flower is another word for bud, or the green goodness you smoke. That bud is harvested from a female cannabis plant.
While all cannabis is a plant, not all cannabis is bud. Different parts of a cannabis plant are used for different purposes. For instance, fan leaves can be great for making drinkables (including juices) and different types of #edibles, while stems can be used for hemp textiles and to make cannabutter.
Although you might have been led to believe that cannabis leaves can be smoked, that’s not strictly true. The bud — i.e., what you typically smoke — is found in between leaves on a female cannabis plant.
There are two main stages a cannabis plant goes through. The first stage, pre-vegetation, doesn’t reveal the plant’s gender. This stage is all about growing and developing, similar to a human child’s development. About six weeks after cannabis is initially planted, the flowering stage begins, in which the plant’s gender is determined and becomes apparent.
Male cannabis plants don’t have buds on them at all. Only feminized mother plants produce bud; they’re the real moneymakers for cannabis growers.
Sometimes, there are cannabis plants that are intersex, or 50 percent female and 50 percent male. However, with plants of both genders, half the seeds (which will be masculine) are unusable. Fortunately, you can purchase feminized seeds, so you can avoid the problem of male plants that you end up having to destroy.
SO, WHAT’S THE VERDICT?
If we want to have an absolute answer then we need to have a look at the anatomy and somewhat history of this plant. Having said that some people say that it is a plant so when we classify it as a plant, it consists of tissues, roots, stems, leaves and flowers. Every part of a plant plays its role in the development. Tissues are one of the important parts of any plant, not just Marijuana. It consists of cells, which doubles by the process and helps the plant in expanding and growing. If the plant has been in a good, healthy climate there are more chances that the plant will grow perfect and be fresh and lively.
Marijuana plants are not likely to be seen on the ground. They are rooted deep in the ground. All we can see is the half of the plant. Its roots grow as fast as the plant and the roots try to find place underground. This is why the roots expand and can be considered equal to the plant of marijuana. If the plant of marijuana is in a fertile soil the roots will help in taking up the water, it will also help the plant in surviving as long as possible. Other than this, stems and leaves are as important as other parts of this plant.
However, one of the major parts of this plant are the flowers. Without flowers there cannot be any reproduction system. Absence of the flower may lead to a system where there is no reproduction as flowers are the actual organs of reproduction. This was the anatomy of the marijuana plant. By looking at the anatomy of the marijuana we can say that it is a plant. This plant has been serving people for a long time. It has been decades when people started using it to cure people from the fatal diseases. It has also been used in many religions and is also mentioned by many religions.
In addition to this, marijuana has also been used in the industries like fiber and clothing. Hemp is another name of marijuana, which is used in making oil known as hemp oil and milk known as hemp milk. The plant is also used in brewed tea. It can be vaporized and used for recreational purposes as well.
I should have thought it was rather self-evident. Marijuana is a plant, and so are weeds. Tobacco used to be, and still may be, called weed, too. But hip parlance these days generally refers to marijuana as ‘weed’.