BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Vin Mariani, Timothy Leary, Cough Medicine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Humans have always used mind altering drugs ! Drugs are illegal because they are dangerous ! Criminal record (limits employment opportunities/ability to travel)! Jail time (up to life in prison)! Up to 75% of property crime is drug related! Buds w/ high thc content are smoked ! Marijuana tax act (had to get a stamp)! Cocaine used as a stimulant for centuries ! Not high solubility of cocaine from cocaine leaves in saliva! Not very soluble in saliva or coke! Harrison tax act 1914 (had to get the stamp)! Realized that if you took high doses you felt better! Actually binds to dopamine receptors (blocks reuptake)! Folded wax paper ----> w/ a blob of methamphetamine! Acid in coke makes the water insoluble amphetamines soluble in water! Amphetamine psychosis led to a decline in use in the 1960"s! Teeth die and rot out in mouth! Circulation of blood cut off in face! Heroin was sold as a non-addictive cough suppressant !