CCJ 4934 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Hallucinogen, Moral Panic, Psychoactive Drug
11 May 2016
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Overview: more likely in middle class. Marijuana: flowering tops, buds, herb of cannabis satira, psychoactive chemicals, over 400 chemicals. Complex amount because a lot of chemicals: unique sedative-euphoicient psychedelic drug, thc gets user high, different batches have different amounts, smoking common route. Implodes lungs with toxic chemicals: 2 carcinogens also found in tobacco tar and benzopyrena less used than cigs. A known connection between cancer and weed has not been found: thc stored in the body- fatty tissue. After one week 25% of thc is sstill in the body: linger and affects coordination and capacity to remember and learn. Marijuana production and availability: quantity produced is unknown must be substantial, why cultivation is hard to eradicate. Adaptability of sources and bust one operation another opens. Use of marijuana: most common used illegal substance, used by 75% of illicit users, 4th most widely psychoactive, young people are strictly to incorporate it into their everyday life.
