National Institutes of Health. Drug Topics. More Drug Topics. Quick Links. You may also find larger quantities of marijuana in a plastic zip-lock bag.
You might find smaller plastic bags with residue inside. This can trigger concerns that your child is transporting or selling marijuana rather than obtaining it for personal use. Marijuana buds are higher in THC than other parts of the plant and are sold at a premium. As marijuana has been increasingly bred to produce more buds, you may find this type of marijuana in your home.
It is probably much more potent than the average street-grade weed. If you look closely at a marijuana bud, you will see the fine "hairs" and leaves that make up the bud after it is dried. If you find a larger quantity of processed marijuana buds in your home, someone either has an expensive habit or they are selling weed to their friends. If you see this many marijuana plants growing indoors, you have stumbled upon a major indoor marijuana grow operation.
Leave the scene immediately and call if it is not a legal operation. First of all, don't over-react. Before you force your child into a professional drug treatment program that you may not be able to afford and they may not even need, take a step back and try to evaluate the situation.
It may be that your child has experimented with marijuana use or tried it a couple of times with their friends. That happens a lot more these days than it may have happened when you were in school. Forty-four percent of all students have tried weed by 12th grade according to the National Institutes of Health. Your child's involvement in marijuana may have just been a passing curiosity, or it may be more than that.
Before you react, you need to assess just what your child's level of involvement is with marijuana. How do you do that? The best advice available is the simplest—ask your child. Whether or not adolescents become involved in drugs—or stay involved—may be related to their parents' attitudes about drug use. Having a matter-of-fact, rational discussion with your child about marijuana may be the best way to approach the situation.
Cannabis sativa is a tall-growing variety with light, airy buds and long, skinny leaves. Most pot leaves used in popular culture are that of the sativa plant. Sativa plants can reach upward of 10 feet, making indoor growing difficult. These plants are native to southeast Asia and areas near the equator and prefer warmer conditions like their homeland.
Indica plants originated in continental Asia and grew short and stocky, with compact, dense flowers. This lower profile helped them survive the generally colder growing conditions in Asia than that of the islands farther south. The leaves of indica plants grow broader than sativa leaves and are ideal for indoor or space-limited grow operations.
Cold growing temperatures encourage darker colors in marijuana buds. Many growers have perfected the art of cultivation and introduce plants to varying temperatures to help bring out these colors. For decades, botanists and marijuana connoisseurs claimed that indica and sativa are different species with distinctly different effects on the body.
Indica strain smells more acrid, while sativa smells more spicy or sweet. However, one small study did find that participants who had purchased weed within the prior several months were able to smell the difference between several different strains of marijuana. Marijuana consumers describe the scent of the plant as earthy, herbal, and woody. Sometimes the plant scent carries notes of lemon, apple, diesel, or plum. Fire, smoke itself, ash, and the smell of rolling paper add additional layers to the scent.
When a person is smoking cannabis, notes of lemongrass, pine, fire, and wood may stand out. Some people say the after-smoking scent can take on notes of mustiness or a faintly foul, overly sweet scent. Myrcene is in lots of other highly fragrant plants, such as bay leaf, mangoes, hops, and thyme.
Different strains of marijuana can contain more or less myrcene. Hashish smoke smells similar to marijuana smoke — an earthy scent mixed with notes of fires and ash.
Synthetic weed is produced in a laboratory and mixed with other chemical elements. Chemicals are sprayed on plantlike material that is then distributed to be smoked like weed.
Synthetic marijuana is not related to the cannabis plant. Marijuana gives off a distinctly skunky, strong odor. Marijuana smells slightly different depending on what kind is being smoked and how strong the strain is.
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