BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marihuana Tax Act Of 1937, Crack Cocaine, Cannabidiol
4 Apr 2016
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Chemicals for religious purposes: incensole acetate from frankincense burned in churches. Manure, if you bag it and store it, produces methane and gets people high. Drugs are illegal because they are too dangerous: intoxicaion and addicion are the major problems. Drugs are dangerous because they are illegal: jail ime, ines of +, criminal records, 75% of property crime is drug related. Nitrous oxide from whipped cream containers to get high. Thc from the buds is smoked: became illegal in the 1930"s due to a crime wave in new orleans, marijuana tax act of 1937. You got a stamp every ime you bought/sold it. Never actually happened: very popular in the 1960"s with hippies, acive ingredient is thc. Impairs memory, slow reacion imes but also reduces pain: pharmaceuical grade thc made syntheically. Helps anorexics gain weight: saivex for muliple sclerosis. (relieves pain, 1. 5 million users in canada, heavy use may lead to schizophrenia.
