BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Frankincense, Paint Thinner, Active Ingredient

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

All religions use some sort of mind effecting substance at some point. Frankincense has active ingredient: incensole acetate; mild hallucingent. Cover it with plastic bag as it ferments it gives off methane. Society: health costs, economic impacts to companies and families. Secondary crime: up to 75% of property crime is drug related, violent crimes. Very few pills in this country actually contain extacsy. Nitrous oxide in whipped cream (propellent), same thing dentists use. Plant is easy to grow, all over country. Resin on the plant surface (scrap and consume) High crime in new orleans; in regions where lots of weed. How they made it illegal at first (no law in place yet) If they didn"t have a stamp it was illegal. This is how all major narcotics were made illegal. Gov used propaganda to make everyone think weed was evil. And that it was reasonable they were making it illegal.