Marijuana materials

The aim of the analysis of cannabinoids in plants is to discriminate between the phenotypes (drug-type/fiber-type). Quantification of cannabinoids in plant material is needed if it will be used in medicinal appHcations, e.g., in C. sativa extracts. The ratio between A9-THC and CBN can be used for the determination of the age of stored marijuana samples [84]. 

Many people believe that organic or natural psychedelics such as peyote, magic mushrooms and marijuana are safer or produce better trips than synthetic compounds. This is almost certainly false, since any plant material contains hundreds of compounds, many of which have a definite toxicity, but few of which have psychedelic properties (they tend to make you sick, not stoned). The various impurities or the additives (e.g., amphetamine, belladona, strychnine) sometimes found in synthetic preparations are probably no more toxic than many of the compounds found in the psychedelic plants, and like these compounds, such additives or impurities probably have relatively little effect on the trip. 

The hemp plant, or cannabis (Cannabis saliva), continues to be the most frequently abused illicit substance in America. The dried leaves and flowering tops of the plant are referred to as marijuana, and it is typically smoked in pipes or rolled as cigarettes. It also may be consumed in baked goods. Hashish is a solid black resinous material obtained from the leaves of the plant and is usually smoked in a pipe. 

The National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is one of the major organizations working to decriminalize marijuana. Its web site at http //www.norml.org/ provides news of court cases and other developments, as well as background materials for drug-policy reform advocates. 

D-ASC 3 represents various d-ASCs in which much subconscious material might become preconscious it will not necessarily well up by itself, but it is much more readily available than ordinarily. Thus the potential for exploring the mind is greater, but effort must still be exerted. Marijuana intoxication can do this. 

PCP is available in the form of tablets, capsules, liquid, and powder. In its base form, PCP is a white crystalline powder that is snorted, pressed into tablets, or mixed together with water or alcohol. More commonly, it is sprayed in its liquid form on leafy material such as oregano, mint, or marijuana, and sold to end users in the form of joints to be smoked. 

Most often, PCP is smoked in either a pipe or cigarette. To do so, users apply the drug to a leafy material, such as parsley, oregano, mint, tobacco, or marijuana, then roll it or place it in a pipe to smoke. Commercial cigarettes are also sometimes dipped in a PCP solution and... 

Fine powdered marijuana plant material Hexanes GR from EM Sciences Silica gel... 

One kg of the fine powdered marijuana plant material [average % of THC was about 5.21%] was macerated with 6 L hexanes (Hexanes GR from EM Sciences) in a percolator (9" in diameter from the top and 20" long, cone shaped) for 24 hours at room temperature and filtered. The macerate was reextracted with 5 L hexanes for another 24 hours. The hexane extracts were combined and evaporated under reduced pressure at low temperature to give 110.7 g residue (11.07% extractives). The % of THC in the hexane extract was 41.21%. 

The spice is used throughout Europe and Asia and is smoked in a type of cigarette, known locally as kretek, in Indonesia and in occasional coffee bars in the West, mixed with marijuana to create marijuana spliffs. Clove cigarettes (Indonesian kretek) are cigarettes made with a complex blend of tobacco, cloves and a flavouring sauce . Cloves are also an important incense material in Chinese and Japanese culture. 

Cannabis will grow almost anywhere given adequate drainage, but psychoactivity can vary by a factor of about twenty in various manifestations of the fresh, natural product. This is then affected by how it is harvested, dried and its age before use. This basic material can also be transformed into many grades of hashish, hash oil, isomerized forms or Cannabis butters for adding to or using with food. Marijuana has also been used in the making of beers, wines and liqueurs. 

This article by Leary and Metzner caused a wave of interest in DMT among many in the counterculture. About this time came the discovery that DMT evaporated onto oregano, parsley leaves or marijuana and then smoked could produce effects similar to those from injections, except that they occurred almost immediately and disappeared more rapidly. Materials for making DMT were legal and could be procured easily then. Methods of synthesizing DMT were published in The Turn-On Book, The Psychedelic Guide to Preparation of the Eucharist and several short pamphlets. 

A 62-year-old woman with congenital cataracts smoked marijuana illicitly for 12 years (current use 3-4 g/day smoked and 3-4 g/day orally). She had mild-to-moderate difficulty with attention and concentration and minimal-to-mild difficulty with acquisition and storage of very complex new verbal material. Her executive functioning was not affected. 

A 50-year-old man with hereditary osteo-onychodys-plasia had smoked marijuana since 1974 to alleviate muscle spasms and pain (current use 7 g/day of 3.75% THC). He had mild-to-moderate impairment of attention and concentration and reduced ability to acquire new verbal material. He scored poorly on the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT), a measure of short-term memory recall, and had difficulty with motor tasks. 

A 48-year-old man with multiple congenital cartilaginous exostoses had smoked marijuana since the late 1970s (current use 9 g/day of 2.7% THC). His neurocognitive scores suggest mild difficulty in sustaining attention and a minimal-to-mild deficit in the acquisition of new verbal material. 

The plant material can be used as herbal material, once dried, e.g. marijuana. Low-quality products, which contain stalks, seeds, leaves and flowering tops, may be compressed into blocks (West African and Caribbean material), it may occur as loose herbal material (from Central and Southern Africa), or it may be rolled into a so-called Com Bob , wrapped in vegetable fibre (again from Central and Southern Africa). Higher-quahty materials, composed of fruiting tops and flowers alone, may also be encountered. If tied around bamboo sticks, this material is known as Buddha Sticks or Thai Sticks , and arises from South-East Asia. A central bamboo cane is used, around which up to 2 g of herbal material can be tied. The materials can be seized in bundles of up to 20 sticks. An African equivalent is to wrap the material in a small roll of brown paper such rolls frequently contain less than 0.5 g of cannabis per roll. Sieved products may also be encountered. This process removes the stems and the leaves, producing Kif, a material derived from North Africa, for example, from Morocco. 

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