BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Frankincense, Chemical Substance, Psilocybin
29 Apr 2018
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Street Drugs
Chemical for religious purposes
• Humans have always used mind altering substances
• Chemicals for religious purposes
o Incensole
▪ Found in Frankincense
▪ When burned it produces an effect
People do anything to get high
• Some people used cow manure
• Produce large amounts of methane
• Collect the gas and breath in to get the high
Drugs are illegal bcs they are dangerous
• Same reason why sports drugs are illegal
• Restricted bcs of health concerns
• How they alter your behaviour is what makes them unique
• Addicted to something that impairs your ability to function
o Impacts personal life, society, etc
Drugs are dangerous bcs they are illegal
• Increases the symptoms (Jail, criminal record, etc)
• Buyer safety
o “treet drugs are’t the pure sustae
o Street drugs can contain anything
o Ipossile to ko hat’s i them
Types of things people Consume
• Solvents often abused in elementary schools
o Whiteout, dry erase markers
• Nitrous oxide in whipped cream
Marijuana
• Plant is easy to grow
• Buds with high THC content are smoked
• Resin Plant surface that part that is scraped off to get the THC
Why is it illegal?
• Used as a scapegoat by the government
• New Orleans high in crime
o High proportion of people that smoked marijuana in that area
o Blamed the crime on Marijuana
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▪ Did’t have any facts to prove that the smoking of Marijuana is what caused the
high crimes
Marijuana Tax Act
• Used taxation as a way of restricting it (buyers & sellers were taxed)
• You need a tax stamp
o Effectively made it illegal requiring you to have something that is impossible to get
• Government used propaganda to convince people to stop using the drug
Active Ingredient is THC
• Used in prescription medications
o Marinol for AIDS related anorexia
o Sativex for multiple sclerosis
▪ Helps with reducing the spasms that occur in muscles with this disease
• Bad Effects
o THC impairs memory
o Slows reaction time
Smoke is Toxic
• CO (heart attack), Carcinogens (cancer)
o Dose makes the poison
• “oure of soke does’t atter
o Both are incomplete combustion reactions
Edible Version
• Advantage skip the smoke part
o Toiit of the soke is’t preset
• CONCERN: pay attention to dosage
PROBLEM: Lack of dose-response info for THC
• Law is moving faster than the science
• Known that THC use impairs drivers
• Tests are available for THC
• No correlation b/w blood levels and intoxication yet
Schizophrenia
• Heavy use may lead to schizophrenia
• THC causes increases in dopamine
o Makes you feel good
o Schizophrenia has to do with an increase in dopamine in the brain
• Teens who use cannabis A LOT have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia
*Are schizophrenics heavy cannabis users?
• Do’t ko if the drug is ausig the disease OR if the disease auses people to osue the
drug more often
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Marijuana contains cannabidiol
• Amount of THC today is a lot higher
• A lot of THC in the plant has little cannabidiol
• Cannabidiol Has anti-psychotic activity
Shatter
• Semi-purified THC
• Remove the THC from the buds and evaporate the butane
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS)
• Emesis= vomiting
• SYMPTOMS: Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting
• Person who has the condition learns to self-medicate themselves by adding heat
o Long hot showers/baths
• Heavy Cannabis Use
Herbal Incense
• Fake Marijuana
o Sell things that produce effects similar to Marijuana
• Leaves were spiked with…
o Synthetic analgesics that have molecular structures similar to THC
o Synthetic cannabinoids
▪ JWH-018 more potent than THC
Cocaine
• Stimulant retrieved by chewing the cocoa leaves
• SYMPTOMS Seizures, psychiatric disturbances, stroke, cardiac arrhythmia, death
• Cocaine in coke?
o Cocaine was found in patent medications
o Coke was the non-alcoholic version of Vin Mariani
▪ Had the same formula including the cocaine
• Many uses: Hair (marketed for dandruff), Topical anesthetic
Harrison Tax Act
• Make sure that doctors can still use it but the average person can’t get a hold of it
• Used to maintain it’s medicinal properties
Stepan Chemical in New Jersey
• Company that is allowed to ship cocaine into the country
• Take the leaves and are used for flavor
• Remove the cocaine and take the flavor portion, and give the cocaine portion to be used for
medicinal portion
Anesthetics
• Topical Anesthetics are designed from cocaine
• Dental Anesthetics inspired by cocaine
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Document Summary
Chemical for religious purposes: humans have always used mind altering substances, chemicals for religious purposes. Incensole: found in frankincense, when burned it produces an effect. People do anything to get high: some people used cow manure, produce large amounts of methane, collect the gas and breath in to get the high. Drugs are illegal bcs they are dangerous: same reason why sports drugs are illegal, restricted bcs of health concerns, how they alter your behaviour is what makes them unique, addicted to something that impairs your ability to function. Increases the symptoms (jail, criminal record, etc: buyer safety, treet drugs are(cid:374)"t the pure su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)e, street drugs can contain anything. Types of things people consume: solvents often abused in elementary schools, whiteout, dry erase markers, nitrous oxide in whipped cream. Marijuana: plant is easy to grow, buds with high thc content are smoked, resin plant surface that part that is scraped off to get the thc.
