CHARACTERISTICS OF CANNABIS Flashcards
BOTANICAL NAME OF CANNABIS
CANNABIS SALVIA
5 OF 15 STREET NAMES OF CANNABIS/MARIJUANA
- ASTRO TURF
- BLUNT
- CHRONIC
- DOPE
- GRASS
- HEMP
- HERB
- HOME GROWN
- JOINT
- MARY JANE
- POT
- PURPLE HAZE
- REEFER
- ROACH
- WEED
KIND OF DRUG
MOOD ALTERING
ACTIVE INGREDIENT OF CANNABIS
THC (DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL)
% OF THC IN POT VS HASH OIL
- POT: 7 TO 15% THC
2. HASH: 60% THC
TYPES OF INGESTION
- SMOKE
2. FOOD, COOKIES, BROWNIES
LENGTH OF HIGH FROM POT
2 TO 3 HOURS
DEGREE OF DAMAGE TO LUNGS
1 JOINT = 5 CIGARETTES IN CANCER CAUSING CHEMICALS
PHYSICAL SENSATIONS OF POT
- INCREASED HEART RATE
- LESSENED COORDINATION/BALANCE
- UNREAL STATE OF MIND
BLUNT
POT IN A HOLLOWED-OUT CIGAR
COMMON ADDITIVES
- CRACK
- COCAINE
- PCP (PHENCYCLIDINE)
LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF POT USE
- POORER MEMORIES
- POORER MENTAL APTITUDE
- LESSENED EMOTIONAL MATURITY
- REDUCES RESISTANCE TO COMMON ILLNESSES
- SUPPRESSED IMMUNE SYSTEM
- GROWTH DISORDERS
- INCREASED ABNORMAL CELLS IN BODY
- REDUCTION OF MALE SEX HORMONES
- RAPID DESTRUCTION OF LUNG FIBER
- INCREASED LESIONS TO THE BRAIN
- REDUCED SEXUAL CAPACITY
- APATHY, DROWSINESS, AND LACK OF MOTIVATION
- PERSONALITY AND MOOD CHANGES
- NEED FOR HIGH REPLACED BY NEED FOR NORMALCY
- PARANOIA
ADDICTIVE EFFECTS OF POT USE
- PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE
- PHYSICAL TOLERANCE
- WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS LAST 1 WEEK
- CRAVINGS LAST LONGER
POT TO HASH, RATIO OF STRENGTH
HASH IS 6X STRONGER THAN POT
HASH IS FROM?
MADE FROM THE RESINS OF INDIAN HEMP
STREET NAMES OF HEMP
- CHOCOLATE
- HASH
- SHIT
ALCOHOL VS CANNABIS
- ALCOHOL HAS 1 INGREDIENT: ETHANOL
- POT CONTAINS OVER 400 CHEMICALS
- POT CONTAINS SAME CANCER-CAUSING CHEMICALS AS CIGARETTES
- UNLIKE CIGARETTES, POT IS DEEPLY INHALED AND HELD, WORSENING THE DAMAGE TO LUNGS
- ALCOHOL LEAVES BODY IN HOURS, BUT THC STAYS IN BODY FOR WEEKS OR MONTHS
- THC DAMAGES THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, ALCOHOL DOESN’T
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF THC
- SENSORY DISTORTION
- PANIC
- ANXIETY
- POOR COORDINATION OF MOVEMENT
- LOWERED REACTION TIME
- AFTER HIGH, SLEEPINESS OR DEPRESSION
- INCREASED HEART BEAT