Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Cannabis sativa
- Family
- Cannabaceae
- CommonName
- hemp, marijuana
- Presence
- MAYBE
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 2021
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, ruderal
- Geobotanical
- UBasin
- Counties
- Rio Grande
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Marijuana is now being cultivated legally in open fields in the Valley and escaped plants have been observed growing beside them. Allred et al. (2020) show records from scattered counties in New Mexico (including Rio Arriba, contingent with Colorado), but observe that the plants are "generally not persisting. Similar occurrences have been observed in every USA state. The political brouhaha surrounding the legalization of marijuana should not eclipse the diversity of human uses of this amazing plant (it was cultivated as early as the Neolithic), for instance in making rope, nets, clothing, and paper, or generating hemp milk and biofuels.
- Annotation