Amazing Microscopic Images of Marijuana ~ Cannabis Up Close

Of all the cannabis books available in North America, “Cannabis: Marijuana under the Microscope ” by Ted Kinsman is far and away the most unique. Cannabis: Marijuana Under the Microscope. “I really love microscopes. I have a dozen microscopes at home and one huge scanning electron microscope (SEM) about the size of a small car. It
lives in the living room. I also have three SEMs at work. I teach SEM at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. In the past I have done a lot of science photography for TV shows: bullets for ‘CSI,’ worms for the ‘X-Files’ and a thousand projects in between.
Years ago, I stumbled across a book that was just SEM images of a honeybee. I thought, ‘What a great project!’ So, I kept
looking for a subject that regular people would find interesting and used pictures
from a microscope.” -Ted Kinsman

In a flooded market of how-to-grow books, bud porn archives and canna-cultural explorations, The book presents marijuana as it’s never been seen before — through an electron microscope to get up close and personal with leaves, seeds, pollen and trichomes.

Kinsman is currently an assistant professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Prior to joining the school’s Photographic Sciences Department, he worked as an optical engineer, a physicist and a physics instructor. His work has appeared in numerous television series and is one of the few active high-speed photographers able to shoot pictures at times less than one-millionth of a second.
About the Artist, Ted Kinsman
Rochester Institute of Technology
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor

Ted Kinsman is one of the few active high-speed photographers able to photograph at times less than 1/1,000,000th of a second. That is faster than a speeding bullet. Recently, Kinsman’s work has expanded to the x-ray region of the spectrum where he continues to explore imagery for books and magazines. His work has appeared on The Discovery Channel, Crime Scene Investigations (CSI), The X-Files, South Park, The Tyra Banks Show, ABC, NBC, PBS, CBS and the British Broadcast Corporation. Recently, he did work on The Frozen Planet series, and James Cameron’s Avatar movie.

Color-enhanced Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of the surface of a marijuana (Cannabis sativa) plant leaf, showing glandular cells, called trichomes. These are capitate trichomes that have stalks, visible only through a microscope. They secrete a resin containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active component of cannabis when used as a drug. The spherical cells at the top of the trichomes are 60 um in diameter.

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