PSYC 330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Papaver Somniferum, Synthetic Cannabinoids, Designer Drug
12 Aug 2016
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Drug use: yesterday and today: historical overview. A combustive process in which yeasts interact with the sugars in plants such as grapes, grains, and fruits to produce an enzyme that converts the sugar into alcohol. Producing altered states for religious things or to prepare for battle. Conflicts between great britain and china in mid-19th century. Millions of chinese men had become addicted to opium. At that time, china had the highest national use of opium. The legislative forbidding of the sale of a substance. A central nervous system depressant that contains sedative and pain- relieving compounds. The top is dried and ingested for its hallucinogenic properties. Opium, morphine, marijuana, heroin, and cocaine were easy to obtain without prescription. Products that were sold as medicines that would cure a host of illnesses and diseases. Liquid extract in 1800s as a general all-purpose medicine. 1930s-1950s: limited to urban areas and rural areas where marijuana was grown and harvested.
