... seems to have numerous medicinal qualities that can prevent or treat a plethora of illnesses. Cannabis plants can grow to twenty feet in height, however, most are roughly the size of a christmas tree. The leaves are compound, palmate, alternately veined and display a certain saw-tooth appearance. The rigid, herbaceous stalk of the cannabis plant contains a hollow center occupying about one-half its diameter. A cross section of ... xylem. Next, a layer of soft cambium persists. This is the growing tissue of the plant; the cells of which develop into the adjacent woody layer or the outerm...

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