Marijuana addiction Marijuana is one of the most commonly abused illegal drug. Marijuana is a dry‚ mix of the flowers‚ stems and leaves of the hemp plant cannabis sativa. It has a pungent and distinctive smell normally sweet and sour odor. It is commonly smoked as a cigarette reffered to asa joint or in a pipe. Behavioral changes and symptoms of marijuana addiction include: 1. Distorted perceptions 2. Impaired coordination 3. Difficulty in thinking and problem solving 4. Ongoing problems with learning
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aesthetic effects” (Marijuana Legalization 3). For those who don’t know‚ “cannabis‚ or marijuana‚ is an annual flowering plant of the botanical order Rosales‚ which today occurs across large
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different and specific uses‚ they’re still distant cousins that yield from the plant. So then‚ what exactly are the differences between these two strains? Each bred for specific purposes It’s true both hemp and marijuana come from the same cannabis species— Cannabis sativa L. But each are genetically different and are further distinguished by use‚ chemical makeup‚ and cultivation methods. Hemp‚ a different strain than marijuana‚ is bred for purposes that don’t
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Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana‚ which comes from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa‚ is the most frequently used illegal drug in the U.S. About 4% of American adults smoke pot at least once a year. Roughly 1% of adults abuse pot‚ and one in 3 00 have a pot addiction. The rates of marijuana smoking in adults have remained stable since the 1990s. However‚ the rates of addiction to pot have risen significantly over that same period. And‚ according to recent government studies‚ as many as 30% of
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In the book titled “The Trauma Tool Kit: Healing PTSD from the inside out‚” (2012) author Susan Pease Banitt describes Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as‚ “a whole-body tragedy‚ an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” (Bannit) The symptoms of this disorder may vary person to person‚ making the process of diagnosing this condition difficult for healthcare experts. One of the main concerns of those affected by PTSD is that the side effects of the medications they
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be helped by new drugs which lower the blood pressure by what seems to be action on the central nervous system. (3) Psychotherapeutic-new compounds are antidepressants and antianxiety drugs (Culliton: 1970). Mikuriya cites it studies concerning cannabis funded by the National Institute of Mental Health in 1961. The studies were "either specialized animal experiments‚ part of an observational sociologic study of a number of drugs‚ or explorations of chemical detection methods" (Mikuriya‚ 1969: 38)
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MARIJUANA (Scientific Name: Cannabis sativa) INTRODUCTION Marijuana is one of the world’s oldest economic plants. Besides providing the material hemp‚ hemp‚ for a lucrative cordage and cloth industry‚ it has been a valuable medicinal drug. The ancient pharmacopoeias of China‚ going back more than 2‚000 years‚ listed marijuana‚ and the plant found favor around the world for its ability to ease pain‚ induce sleep‚ and soothe a variety of nervous disorders. Usually
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this issue for many years: people who say marijuana should be legal and others who are fighting to keep it illegal. Many debates have been had over this issue for many years. Marijuana consists of a mixture of leaves‚ stems and tops of the “Cannabis sativa plant”‚ or hemp plant. Marijuana is also known as grass‚ pot‚ tea‚ or weed. “Both male and female plants contain psychoactive substances called “cannabinoids”. The ingredient in marijuana that produces most of the psychological and physiological
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the antibacterial activity of Cannabis sativa leaf extract to some selective pathogenic bacterial strains such as Staphylococcus aureus‚ Escherichia coli‚ Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antibacterial activity if cannabis sativa was evaluated by well diffusion method. The highest zone
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The Chemistry of Drugs Delta 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol is the primary psychoactive constituent of Cannibis sativa‚ and is bound to two cannabinoid receptors: CB1 receptors‚ located primarily in the brain‚ and CB2 receptors‚ located primarily in the periphery (Wiley & Martin 2002). A cannabinoid is defined as a substance that has pharmacological properties that resemble those of delta 9 THC i.e. " a drug that binds to CB1 and /or CB2 receptors in vitro and produces a profile of in vivo
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