(n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
(2) In Norway, the use of cannabis was introduced by a resourceful group of oppositional middle-class adolescents in the late 1960s.
(3) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
(4) The effects were assessed of delta'THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) and CBD and DMHP-CBD (the non-psychomimetic components of marijuana derivatives) on 14C labelled serotonin release from normal platelets, when incubated with patient's plasma obtained during migraine attack.
(5) Say Why To Drugs – the highs and lows of cannabis Read more One option the scientists propose is to boost levels of CBD in high potency cannabis, so that users can get their hit without being at such risk of mental harm.
(6) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
(7) The popular concept of "marihuana" is actually based on the chemical characteristics of the plant Cannabis, rather than on the taxonomic classification.
(8) The Police Foundation report said that the penalties for possession of cannabis - among the harshest in Europe - do more damage than the drug itself and called for a reclassification of drug offences.
(9) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(10) The report claims 30,000 people in the UK use cannabis as a medicine, but adds that the figure could be as high as 1 million, according to the campaign group End Our Pain .
(11) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
(12) The move has been interpreted as a shift towards the effective decriminalisation of cannabis.
(13) After fronting a piece on a medical marijuana club , she told viewers : “I – the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club – will be dedicating all of my energy for fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalising marijuana here in Alaska.
(14) THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the main psychoactive ingredient of the cannabis plant.
(15) There is a growing body of research that shows the medical properties of chemical components of cannabis.
(16) They cause an effect similar in some ways to cannabis – but are many times more potent, and the effects are hugely unpredictable.
(17) The reports regarding cannabis dependence among cocaine dependents are few and inconclusive.
(18) Breathes has been smoking cannabis for more than half his life, but he has no nostalgia for the old days, no regrets about the industry becoming commercialised.
(19) Last week the local paper carried stories about a former teacher charged with running a prostitution ring and a house exposed as a major cannabis farm.
(20) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.
Dioecious
Definition:
(a.) Having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results apply to a dioecious population if the migration pattern and mutation rate are sex independent.
(2) The population is assumed to be infinite dioecious with nonoverlapping discrete generations and random mating.
(3) It is argued that the genome of R. acetosa is undergoing rapid reorganisation on this small island which may be associated with an enforced shift towards inbreeding in this dioecious species.
(4) The above results apply to autosomal loci in monoecious (with or without selfing) and dioecious populations and to X-linked loci.
(5) Seven centric shifts and three reciprocal interchanges, all newly-arisen in natural populations, have been tested for their inheritance in the dioecious flowering plant Rumex acetosa.
(6) Staurotypus does not confirm to the general model of sex chromosome evolution for diploid dioecious organisms.
(7) Thus the cost of sex in gynodioecious populations is (with a low level of selfing) as high as in a dioecious population.
(8) The technique has been successful in both dioecious and monoecious families with short chromosomes.
(9) Fluke LSU rRNA has significant sequence homology to mosquito mitochondria LSU rRNA and is more closely related to the mitochondrial rRNA of hermaphroditic than dioecious trematodes.
(10) Weak selection at a single mutiallelic locus in a dioecious population is analysed under the assumptions of panmixia and discrete non-overlapping generations.
(11) is fertilized by small biflagellate spermatozoids and both monoecious and dioecious species are found.
(12) This situation contrasts with the one described for another heterosporous haploid dioecious pteridophyte, Marsilea vestita, where nucleocytoplasmic interaction has been interpreted as the de novo creation of plastids and mitochondria following the elimination by autophagy of the organelles inherited at meiosis.
(13) Discrete, nonoverlapping generations are posited for autosomal and X-linked loci in dioecious populations, but monoecious populations are studied in both discrete and continuous time.
(14) The mean fitness is the product of the mean fertility and the mean viability; in dioecious populations, the latter is the unweighted geometric mean of the mean viabilities of the two sexes.
(15) Properties of identity relation between genes are discussed, and a derivation of recurrent equations of identity coefficients in a random mating, diploid dioecious population is presented.
(16) Chromosome analyses of 227 mature plants of the dioecious species Rumex acetosa collected on the small island of Skomer have revealed an extremely high level of unique and polymorphic variation.
(17) Study of the reproductive anatomy in 65 strobilae of the dioecious cestode Shipleya inermis Fuhrmann, 1908 (Acoleata: Dioecocestidae) showed that a common genital duct, probably arising through fusion of the vas deferens and the proximal portion of the vaginal duct, compensated functionally for the loss of a patent vagina.
(18) Using adequate definitions of mean fitnesses in general contexts of frequency-dependent selection in dioecious populations, we show that two phenotypes, when they can coexist in the population, tend to balance their fitnesses as far as is allowed by the genetic system as more alleles responsible for phenotype determination are introduced into the population.
(19) The plant is dioecious with very reduced male and female flowers.