CCJ 4934 Study Guide - Final Guide: Disinhibition, Laudanum, Oxycodone
11 May 2016
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Focus on their class of drugs, potential addiction, use, history, legalization, and medicinal uses: Originated as a wild plant in central asia. Smoking introduced by mexican immigrants to southwest in early. 1900s and by caribbean and south american sailors in nola around 1910: industrial purposes. Oil from plant, seeds are edible, hemp fiber: effects. Thc active ingredient, 400+ chemicals: usage patterns. Young people using at an increasingly younger age. Most common used illegal substance, used by 75% of illicit users. 4th most widely psychoactive: who uses. Low early teenage years, peak in late teens early 20s, males more likely, more likely if friends smoke. Peddler myth young people use drugs because they are induced by drug sellers. Outcast myth uses because he or she is frightened, lonely, isolated. Behavioral factors: becker"s marijuana user research. Will use for pleasure only when he. Learns to smoke it in a way to produce real effects.
