Essays on Cannabinoids

Policy Positions Paper: Use of Medical Marijuana in Georgia

The use of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) can be traced back more than 5000 years ago related to medical, recreational, and spiritual reasons (Bostwick, 2012). The United States Pharmacopeia has included it since 1850’s, and until the 1930’s physicians provided prescriptions for it for a number of physical complaints (Narcanon International, 2016). In 1970, the United States Congress determined it had no valid therapeutic value and categorized it as a Schedule I illegal substance. However, a number of sources have stated that marijuana has no addictive properties (Samsha, 2016). The National Institute on Drug Abuse state this is ...

The use of medical marijuana is of medical and political interest because medical marijuana means a marijuana plant that is used by addicted people. It is a controversial issue because some countries pass laws that allow to legally use medical marijuana to treat people. Medical marijuana has properties and influences on body and psychosis. This paper will address the pros and cons of marijuana as a medical option, common arguments for and against it and propose a public health policy in order to address this important health topic. Marijuana should not be a medical option because its negative influence ...

Introduction

Nowadays, the struggle against the use, dissemination, and production of drugs is quite severe. Despite the fact that so-called War on Drugs has been launched in 1971, it seems like there was no serious developments in this direction. Since the development of this campaign, loads of taxpayers’ funds were invested to this fight, a lot of people were detained, and tons of substances confiscated. The War led to the militarization of the police and involvement of the military into the raids on multiple occasions. One of the main issues here is the focus of the authorities on a specific ...

1.0 Introduction

Marijuana is scientifically known as Cannabis sativa and has been in use for about 4,000 years. Cannabis sativa belongs to in the Cannabaceae family and is an annual herbaceous plant . However it was not officially analyzed and the active ingredients isolated until 1964 when two Israeli biochemists R. Mechoulam and Y. Gaoni analyzed it. Cannabis contains cannabinoids as the primary chemicals which include cannabichromene,cannabinol, cannabigerol, cannabidiol, cannabinolidic acids and a number of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) isomers. The principal psychoactive ingredient present in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta-9-THC). It has been traditionally used as a stimulant, a hallucinogen and a depressant for recreational, medicinal ...