Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants - Nutmeg, Hallucination, Psychedelic, Cannabis, Convention on Psychotropic Substances, Hallucinogen (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Nutmeg, Hallucination, Psychedelic, Cannabis, Convention on Psychotropic Substances, Hallucinogen, Ibogaine, Entheogen, European witchcraft, Designer drug, Psychedelic therapy, Auditory hallucination, Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, Trip sitter, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, Merry Pranksters, Erowid, Smart shop, Terminalia bellirica, Form constant, Carbogen, Operation Web Tryp, Set and setting, Cognitive liberty, Turn on, tune in, drop out, Pharmacological Calvinism, Cyclorphan, Mind at Large, Ichthyoallyeinotoxism, JLF, Pseudohallucination, Oneirogen. Excerpt: Cannabis, also known as marijuana (sometimes spelled "marihuana") among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana. According to the United Nations, cannabis "is the most widely used illicit substance in the world." The typical herbal form of cannabis consists of the flowers and subtending leaves and stalks of mature pistillate of female plants. The resinous form of the drug is known as hashish (or merely as 'hash'). The major psychoactive chemical compound in cannabis is -tetrahydrocannabinol (commonly abbreviated as THC). Cannabis contains more than 400 different chemical compounds, including at least 66 other cannabinoids (cannabidiol (CBD), cannabinol (CBN) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), etc.) which can result in different effects from those of THC alone. Documented instances of cannabis use go back as far as the 3rd millennium BC. In modern times, the drug has been used for recreational, religious or spiritual, and medicinal purposes. The UN estimated that in 2004 about 4% of the world's adult population (162 million people) use cannabi...