Marijuana Looks Like An Alien World Under An Electron Microscope

By Tom Angell

Have you ever seen marijuana?

No, have you ever seen it up close? Like, really up close?

Ted Kinsman has, and you won’t believe his photos.

When viewed under an electron microscope, cannabis looks like an alien world.

“I like to think it’s what a person would see if they were just a few microns tall, walking through these forests,” Kinsman told Tech Insider in an interview published on Friday.

He included many of his pictures, which are artificially colorized, in his book, “Cannabis: Marijuana Under The Microscope,” which was published in May.

Kinsman, who is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has also photographed psilocybin mushroom spores, bedbugs, spiders and even human brain cells.

Take a look at more photos and learn about Kinsman’s techniques in the Tech Insider video below:

Photo courtesy of Ted Kinsman // Tech Insider.