Excellent, thanks CC... that's given me even more belief in this outrageous theory.
It seems the more I look into things, the more scientists don't know. I hit dead ends in logic all the time.
Also, peoplelike to pretend they know, and will state things as facts. Much like I have done here... but for me things have to add up. I also think that the cannabis community as a whole is more intent on getting a good smoke than actually finding out about the plant. Yet, we are the only ones that
can study it. Funding isn't given for cannabis. So it is up to us.
Cannabis is an individual, it has no direct family tree... forgive the pun. So studying other plants is good, but just not the same.
And i realise that we have no way of knowing what the earliest cannabis looked like, but then we don't from all life either. As I believe that all life started from the same single strand of protein, and that environmental factors played it's part in cell division, then each cell grew into an animal or plant, to cut a long story short. The big bang of life, so to speak. Anyway, that's a different thread.
What i mean by the early cannabis plant, is the very stage it was a plant. A very tiny plant, just finding its way through the jungle that is life (forgive the pun).
Maybe it was still a hermie when trich's first evolved on the plant, who really knows?