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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What benefit is THC to a Cannabis plant?

My friend asked was asking two questions last night

1) For what reason does plants contain THC? What is the benefit to the plant?

2) Why do they contain so much?

I was stumped by question one, but in regard to Q two, I figured it was probably human selection/interference considering the HUGE increase in strength in just a few decades.

I'd love to know the answer to #1 and if I was right about #2.
gpt
This question has been asked before, so I'll tell you what has been said in the past but the answer to both of your questions is the same.


Animal eats Cannabis.  Animal 'trips hard'.  Animal learns not to eat Cannabis.  Cannabis thrives!

Now imagine our herbavoire stumbling across some wild cannabis and trying to make a meal out of it.  The amount of Cannabis injested to make a 'meal out of it' would likely even render our animal unconscious, which would make it easy prey.