PSYC 4580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cannabidiol, Chemotherapy, Cancer Pain
19 Sep 2017
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Impaired driving: how do we educate ppl on the risk of driving high, and how de we reliably test that (no real way to do it) A framework for the legalization and regulation of cannabis in canada (2016) Force met up for about a year and make a report with recommendation to the government about how the government should go about legalizing cannabis. Cannabis can be very useful: nausea and vomiting with cancer chemotherapy, loss of appetite for patients with hiv/aids, severe refractory cancer-associated pain, chronic cancer pain. Cannabinoids and the brain chapter 1 intro. Not until 1964 that thc was identified and that what makes you high. Where does thc have its effects in the body: allyn howlett"s group discovered cannabinoid receptor (cb1, prominent in the cns, present in the intestine & liver. Only thc has shown to be intoxicating. Different concentrations of cannabinoids in different strains have different concentrations.
