>>13859582thc actually is the skunk smell in weed, its definitely for insect purposes either attracting or repelling. The other funny thing about thc is that it has an effect like horseradish or hot peppers, kinda inbetween. So it definitely filled some niche, hemp plants produce shitloads of different terpenoids as is so thc was one of the many that were just randomly made by evolution. and it just so happens to be very similar to signaling chemicals used by the brain.