HDFS472 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cannabis Sativa, Opioid, Hashish
27 Mar 2019
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Still classified as a schedule 1 drug. High potential for abuse and no accepted medical purpose=schedule 1. Only legal for approved research purposes only. Issues with how the states deal with the money. Some excitatory properties, but not a stimulant. Some sedative effects, but without serious risks associated with other sedatives. Mild analgesic effects but chemically different than opiods. Can produce hallucinations but not like opiods. Any of multifarious active substances found in cannabis plants. Chief psychoactive component in marijuana and hashish. Thc concentration increased from 1-2% in 1970s to 10% in 1990s and greater than 10% today. Growers are trying to make it stronger (illegally) Hot climate with no humidity= higher thc. Most common psychoactive drug originating from the cannabis plant. Key psychoactive agent thc, found in resin on the leaves. Plants can be huge, easy to grow. Legal and relative common in some social circles during prohibition in the 1920s.
