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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Drug
The cannabis plant can be dried or otherwise processed to yield products containing large concentrations of compounds that have medicinal...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - History
Cannabis has been known as a medicinal and psychoactive compound from very early in history, and has been used continuously throughout th...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Legality
Since the twentieth century, most countries have laws against the cultivation, use, possession, or transfer of cannabis (and, naturally, ...
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Cannabis: Encyclopedia - Cannabis
Cannabis indica
Cannabis ruderalis
Cannabis sativa
Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. The plant is...
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Cannabis Reclassification In The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Reclassification In The United Kingdom
Cannabis reclassification in the United Kingdom refers to the transfer of cannabis[1] to a different Class of the Misuse of Drugs Act 197...
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Cannabis Cultivation: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Cultivation
Cannabis cultivation is the cultivation of the cannabis plant. Species of cannabis include C. Sativa, C. Indica, C. Ruderalis, and "C. Hy...
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War On Drugs: Encyclopedia - War On Drugs
The War on Drugs is an initiative undertaken in the United States to carry out an "all-out offensive" (as President Nixon described it) a...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by persistent defects in the perception or expression of reality. A person experie...
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Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States
Examples: Heroin, LSD, marijuana, MDMA (Ecstasy), methaqualone (Quaalude).
Cannabis rescheduling in the United States - Schedule II.
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Cannabis Sativa: Encyclopedia - Cannabis Sativa
Cannabis sativa, also known as hemp, is a species of Cannabis. It is a dioecious, annual herb. It has been used by humans throughout reco...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - History
Cannabis has been known as a medicinal and psychoactive compound from very early in history, and has been used continuously throughout th...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Legality
Since the twentieth century, most countries have laws against the cultivation, use, possession, or transfer of cannabis (and, naturally, ...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Spiritual Use
Cannabis has a long history of spiritual use, especially in India, where it has been used by wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries. Th...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Medicinal Use
Medically, cannabis is most often used as an appetite stimulant and pain reliever for certain terminal illnesses such as cancer and AIDS....
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Medicinal Use
Medically, cannabis is most often used as an appetite stimulant and pain reliever for certain terminal illnesses such as cancer and AIDS....
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Spiritual Use
Cannabis has a long history of spiritual use, especially in India, where it has been used by wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries. Th...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Preparations For Human Consumption
Cannabis is prepared for human consumption in several forms:
Marijuana or buds, the resin gland-rich flowering tops of female plants.
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Preparations For Human Consumption
Cannabis is prepared for human consumption in several forms:
Marijuana or buds, the resin gland-rich flowering tops of female plants.
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Long-term Effects Of Human Consumption
Main article: Health issues and the effects of cannabis
There is little conclusive scientific evidence about the long-term effects of hum...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Immediate Effects Of Human Consumption
The nature and intensity of the immediate effects of cannabis consumption vary according to the dose, the species or hybridization of the...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - New Breeding And Cultivation Techniques
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques have increased the diversity and potency of cannabis strains over the last 20 years, and ...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Long-term Effects Of Human Consumption
Main article: Health issues and the effects of cannabis
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Legal Issues Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legal Issues Of Cannabis - Cannabis For Non-drug Purposes
Main articles: Hemp for use as fibres, and Cannabis sativa for use as herb
Hemp is the common name for cannabis and the name most used (i...
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Cannabis Drug: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Drug - Immediate Effects Of Human Consumption
The nature and intensity of the immediate effects of cannabis consumption vary according to the dose, the species or hybridization of the...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Regulation Of Cannabis
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs - Cultivation.
The Single Convention places the same restrictions on cannabis cultivation that it d...
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Cannabis Reclassification In The United Kingdom: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Reclassification In The United Kingdom - Criticism
In 2003, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) criticised the United Kingdom for considering reclassification of cannabis. The...
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Legal Issues Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legal Issues Of Cannabis - Criminalization
Cannabis was criminalized across most of the world in the early parts of the 20th century. The reasons for and approaches to criminalizat...
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Legal Issues Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Legal Issues Of Cannabis - Use Of Capital Punishment Against The Cannabis Trade
Several countries have either carried out or legislated capital punishment for cannabis use or trafficking.
The proposal failed. Under th...
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Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis - Legal And Political Constraints On Open Research
In many countries, experimental science suffers from legal restrictions because cannabis is illegal. Thus, cannabis as a drug is often ha...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse: Encyclopedia Ii - National Institute On Drug Abuse - Controversial Research
DAWN is a program to collect statistics on the frequency of emergency room mentions of use of different types of drugs. This information ...
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Prohibition Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Prohibition Drugs - Legal Provisions
The following frequently used drugs are prohibited or otherwise regulated for recreational use in most countries:
Benzodiazepines such a...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Soft Drugs
Many people do not find the hard/soft drug distinction useful, as it is the drug users' behavior that is the most important determinate o...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Punishments In Various Countries
Illegal drug trade - Australia.
There is a movement in Australia to make some narcotics decriminalised, particularly cannabis, making t...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Manufacturing And Processing
Illegal drugs can be broken down into two major classes: those extracted from plants, and those synthesized from chemical precursors. For...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Limitation Of Scope
The Single Convention allows only drugs with morphine-like, cocaine-like, and cannabis-like effects to be added to the Schedules. The str...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Manufacturing And Processing
Illegal drugs can be broken down into two major classes: those extracted from plants, and those synthesized from chemical precursors. For...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Rising Influence Of Mexican Cartels In Drug Trafficking In The U.s.
Since the late 1980's/early 1990's, narcotics trafficking organizations headed and comprised of Mexican nationals became the dominant for...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Punishments In Various Countries
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Illegal drug trade - Australia.
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Hard Drugs
'Hard drugs' are generally drugs considered to create a high degree of physical dependence (i.e. addiction) or considered to be a serious...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Distribution And Wholesaling
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Schedules Of Drugs
The Single Convention's Schedules of drugs range from most restrictive to least restrictive, in this order: Schedule IV, Schedule I, Sche...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Penal Provisions
Article 36 requires Parties to criminalize "cultivation, production, manufacture, extraction, preparation, possession, offering, offering...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Medical And Other Drug Uses
The Single Convention repeatedly affirms the importance of medical use of controlled substances. The Preamble notes that "the medical use...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Influence On Domestic Legislation
Since the Single Convention is not self-executing, Parties must pass laws to carry out its provisions. The United Nations Office on Drugs...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Power Structure
The Single Convention gives the UN Economic and Social Council's Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) power to add or delete drugs from the...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Related Treaties
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs - Predecessor treaties.
Article 44 provided that the Single Convention's entry into force terminate...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - History
The League of Nations adopted several drug control treaties prior to World War II specifying uniform controls on addictive drugs such as ...
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Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs - Possession For Personal Use
It is unclear whether or not the treaty requires criminalization of drug possession for personal use. The treaty's language is ambiguous,...
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Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis - Species
The genus Cannabis was formerly placed with nettles in the family Urticaceae or with mulberries in the family Moraceae, but is now consid...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Trade Of Specific Drugs
Illegal drug trade - Anabolic steroids.
For detailed information on anabolic steroids, see the Anabolic steroids article.
Illegal use...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Distribution And Wholesaling
There are two primary means of distribution: a hierarchy and a hub-and-spoke layout. A hierarchical arrangement includes the manufacturer...
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Drug Urban Legends: Encyclopedia Ii - Drug Urban Legends - Urban Legends About Pcp
The drug with the largest amount of urban legends about it is PCP, which is almost always described in pop culture in ways that are incom...
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Illegal Drug Trade: Encyclopedia Ii - Illegal Drug Trade - Retail Selling
Illegal drug trade - Availability of controlled substances over the Internet.
"No Prescription Websites" (NPWs) offer to sell controlle...
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Drug Urban Legends: Encyclopedia Ii - Drug Urban Legends - Bad Lsd
The most widespread misinformation about LSD, is that it is possible for LSD to be tainted, or bad, or adulterated. While it is possible ...
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Legalise Cannabis Alliance: Encyclopedia Ii - Legalise Cannabis Alliance - Cannabis: Legalise And Utilise
Cannabis: legalise and utilise (ISBN 0-9535693-1-4) was published by the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (PO Box 198, Norwich, Norfolk, UK - N...
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Harm Reduction: Encyclopedia Ii - Harm Reduction - Drugs
Harm reduction - Cannabis.
Perhaps most commonly, harm reduction advocates view the prohibition of cannabis as outdated, ineffective an...
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Legalise Cannabis Alliance: Encyclopedia Ii - Legalise Cannabis Alliance - History
In 1992 the Campaign to Legalise Cannabis International was formed in Norwich to fight politically for the legalisation of cannabis world...
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Schapelle Corby: Encyclopedia Ii - Schapelle Corby - Corby Family's Drug Links
On January 17, 2006, Australian Police found cannabis in the home of Schapelle Corby's mother and half-brother after half-brother James K...
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Thc Ministry: Encyclopedia Ii - Thc Ministry - History
THC Ministry, which is the abbreviated and popularized name for the original Hawai'i Ministry of Cannabis Sacrament and all of its chapte...
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Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis - Pharmacology
The pharmacology of cannabis is complex, due to a wide variety of terpenoid and terpenophenolic compounds (cannabinoids) in the essential...
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International Narcotics Control Board: Encyclopedia Ii - International Narcotics Control Board - Controversy
The Board has issued unfavorable reports against several governments that proposed relaxing their drug laws. In particular, the Board pub...
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Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis - Etymology
The name cannabis is thought to be of Scythian origin. Possibly it has an earlier origin in Semitic languages like Hebrew, in Exodus 30:2...
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Shotgun Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Shotgun Cannabis - Form Of Blowback
The blowing of a "shotgun" or "super" is another name for kind of blowback. When smoking a cannabis cigarette of some sort, most typicall...
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Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis - Smoking
Health issues and the effects of cannabis - Different and fewer risks than tobacco.
The process most popularly used to ingest cannabis ...
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Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis - Cannabis And Driving
Most studies that have taken factors such as age and alcohol intoxication into account have concluded that cannabis' effect on driving ab...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia And Drug Use
The relationship between schizophrenia and drug use is complex, meaning that a clear causal connection between drug use and schizophrenia...
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Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis - Effects On Mental Health
Health issues and the effects of cannabis - Behavioral effects.
It is sometimes observed, and generally stereotyped, that systematic ch...
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Medical Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Medical Cannabis - Current Status Of Medical Marijuana Around The World
Medical cannabis - International law.
Marijuana is in Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, making it subject to spec...
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Medical Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Medical Cannabis - Current Status Of Medical Marijuana Around The World
Medical cannabis - International law.
Marijuana is in Schedule IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, making it subject to spec...
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Medical Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Medical Cannabis - Early Studies On Efficacy
Medical cannabis - New Mexico.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the study included 250 patients and compared smoked mariju...
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Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Health Issues And The Effects Of Cannabis - Thc And Cannabinoids
Health issues and the effects of cannabis - Biochemistry.
The main component of cannabis that interacts with the brain and produces all...
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Medical Cannabis: Encyclopedia Ii - Medical Cannabis - Early Studies On Efficacy
Medical cannabis - New Mexico.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the study included 250 patients and compared smoked mariju...
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Office Of National Drug Control Policy: Encyclopedia Ii - Office Of National Drug Control Policy - Controversy
In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission, in response to a complaint by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws,...
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Drug Abuse Resistance Education: Encyclopedia Ii - Drug Abuse Resistance Education - Brief History And Overview
D.A.R.E. America, a national non-profit organization, was founded in 1983 by Los Angeles Police chief Daryl Gates. D.A.R.E. America is th...
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School District Drug Policies: Encyclopedia Ii - School District Drug Policies - Case Study
In late 2001, in small-town Ashland, Oregon, the Ashland School Board enacted a Drug and Alcohol Policy for leadership students that crea...
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Drug Abuse Resistance Education: Encyclopedia Ii - Drug Abuse Resistance Education - Criticism
D.A.R.E. has fallen under heavy criticism from various sources. The most common charge is that it is ineffective, and that there is no pr...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia And Violence
Schizophrenia - Violence perpetrated by people with schizophrenia.
Although schizophrenia is sometimes associated with violence in the ...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Incidence And Prevalence
Schizophrenia is typically diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood. It is found approximately equally in men and women, though t...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Treatment
Schizophrenia - Medication and hospitalization.
The first line treatment for schizophrenia is usually the use of antipsychotic medicati...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Overview
Schizophrenia is often described in terms of "positive" and "negative" symptoms. Positive symptoms include delusions, auditory hallucinat...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - History
Accounts that may relate to symptoms of schizophrenia date back as far as 2000 BC in the Book of Hearts, part of the ancient Ebers papyru...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Alternative Approaches To Schizophrenia
An approach broadly known as the anti-psychiatry movement, notably most active in the 1960s, has opposed the orthodox medical view of sch...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Causes
Schizophrenia - Genetic and environmental influences.
While the reliability of the schizophrenia diagnosis introduces difficulties in m...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Diagnosis
Schizophrenia - Criteria signs and symptoms.
Like many mental illnesses, the diagnosis of schizophrenia is based upon the behavior of t...
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Tetrahydrocannabinol: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetrahydrocannabinol - Synthetic Thc
Synthetic THC, also known under the substance name dronabinol, is available as a prescription drug (under the trade name Marinol) in seve...
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Prohibition Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Prohibition Drugs - Penalties
In the U.S., the penalty for illegal drug possession and sale can vary from 1 year to a life sentence. Most non-violent first time offend...
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Prohibition Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Prohibition Drugs - Scope
Some exceptions exist; most notably, Islamic countries mostly prohibit the use of alcohol, while most other states allow at least adults ...
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Prohibition Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Prohibition Drugs - Methods Of Enforcement
Disrupting the Market relies on eradication, interdiction and domestic law enforcement efforts.
Through cooperation with governments such...
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Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States - Arguments For And Against Rescheduling
Cannabis rescheduling in the United States - Arguments for rescheduling.
The position of Jon Gettman, leader of the rescheduling moveme...
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Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States - Background
Schedule I is the only category of controlled substances that may not be prescribed by a physician. Under 21 U.S.C. ยง 812(b), drugs must...
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Prohibition Drugs: Encyclopedia Ii - Prohibition Drugs - History
Prohibition drugs - Early drug laws.
Although the present War on Drugs is a distinctly modern phenomenon, drug laws have been a common ...
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Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Rescheduling In The United States - Rescheduling Process
Marijuana could be rescheduled either legislatively, through Congress, or through the executive branch. Congress has so far rejected all ...
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Cannabis Spiritual Use: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Spiritual Use - Sikh Use
The Sikh religion developed in the Punjab in Mughal times. The common use of bhang in religious festivals by Hindus carried over into Sik...
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Tetrahydrocannabinol: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetrahydrocannabinol - Pharmacology
Its pharmacological actions are the result of its binding to the cannabinoid receptor CB1, located in the brain. The presence of these sp...
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Cannabis Reform At The International Level: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Reform At The International Level - Barriers To Reform
Some barriers to cannabis reform are the result of the international drug control bureaucracy's structure, while others are related to po...
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Cannabis Reform At The International Level: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannabis Reform At The International Level - Background
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs makes a distinction between recreational and medical and scientific uses of drugs. Numerous provi...
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Misuse Of Drugs Act Singapore: Encyclopedia Ii - Misuse Of Drugs Act Singapore - Amount Of Controlled Drugs That Would Qualify As Drug Trafficking Offense
Section 17 of the Misuse of Drugs Act lists the amount of controlled drugs beyond which, the person who carry them shall be presumed to p...
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Coffeehouse: Encyclopedia Ii - Coffeehouse - Cannabis Coffee Shops
Some coffee shops, however, especially in the Netherlands, are places where selling of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is...
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Coffeehouse: Encyclopedia Ii - Coffeehouse - Cannabis Coffee Shops
Some coffee shops, however, especially in the Netherlands, are places where selling of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is...
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Coffeehouse: Encyclopedia Ii - Coffeehouse - Cannabis Coffee Shops
Some coffee shops, however, especially in the Netherlands, are places where selling of cannabis for personal consumption by the public is...
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