Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cannabis Indica, Cannabis Strains, Synthetic Cannabinoids
20 Feb 2018
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Lecture 19 case study: cannabis legalization & non-traffic accidents and injuries. Outline: objectives, background on cannabis legalization in canada. Cannabis use in canada: health impacts of cannabis legalization, video, evidence on non-traffic accidents and burn injuries, policy response. Only a few dates to know: understand how cannabis legalization will affect various nontraffic accidents and injuries, and how this might affect policy. Cannabis 101: cannabis contains over 400 compounds. More recent estimate makes it closer to 500-600. Including cannabinoids (over 100, including thc and cbd) Most popular = thc (tetrahydrocannabinol: this is what gets you high. Include things like pinene, which is the smell you get from pine needles. There is where different strains of cannabis get their sense from: cannabis can smell like lemon, pine, or gas, there is a whole spectrum of different sense that cannabis can have, and this is from terpenes.
