Morphine Marijuana

During the 19th century, drugs such as opium, morphine, marijuana, heroin, and cocaine could be obtained easily without prescription. 

In a medical sense, a narcotic is a substance that causes narcosis nomen est omen). Narcosis primarily means a decrease in activity, maybe decrease of pain, hallucinations, a decrease of interest in the external world, a sort of introversion. Prohibited narcotics include heroin, morphine, marijuana, and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). Cocaine does not have any of these classic narcotic effects. Medically, it is a stimulant, a substance that increases activity. This has dangers of its own, so prohibiting the use of cocaine without doubt serves the interests of society in general. 

Many drugsbromides, morphine, cocaine, hashish, marijuana, mescaline, scopolamine, di-isopropyl fluorophosphate, ACTH, pervitin, sodium amytal, lysergic acid, reserpine and chlorpromazine are known to have marked effects on the mental processes of the individuals who receive them. These effects are varied and cannot be discussed here. Suffice it to say that some drugs produce symptoms which resemble those observed in mental disease others work in the opposite direction. There can be no doubt that enzyme systems are... 

Heroin, LSD, mescaline, marijuana Amphetamines, cocaine, morphine, codeine Barbiturates, tranquilizers... 

Some naturally occurring neurotransmitters may be similar to drugs we use. For example, it is well known that the brain makes its own morphine (i.e., beta endorphin), and its own marijuana (i.e., anandamide). The brain may even make its own antidepressants, it own anxiolytics, and its own hallucinogens. Drugs often mimic the brain s natural neurotransmitters. Often, drugs are discovered prior to the natural neurotransmitter. Thus, we knew about morphine before the discovery of beta-endorphin marijuana before the discovery of cannabinoid receptors and anandamide the benzodiazepines diazepam (Valium) and alprazolam (Xanax) before the discovery of benzodiazepine receptors and the antidepressants amitriptyline (Elavil) and fluoxetine (Prozac) before the discovery of the serotonin transporter site. This un-... 

Some therapeutic drugs like Valium, Elavil and morphine as well as some drugs of abuse such as heroin and marijuana can act very similarly to naturally occurring neurotransmitters in the brain. True or False. 

If marijuana were moved to Schedule II, physicians would be able to legally prescribe marijuana without fear of losing their medical licenses. As a Schedule II drug, marijuana would be prescribed under the same strict regulations that govern the medical prescription of morphine and cocaine. In 1989,... 

Weil, A. and Rosen, W. (1993) From Chocolate to Morphine. Boston, MA Houghton Miflin Co. Weisheit, R. A. (1992) Domestic Marijuana A Neglected Industry. New York Greenwood Press. 

Alcohol is just one of many drugs used to facilitate rape. Others include marijuana, cocaine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, chloral hydrate, methaqualone ( quaaludes ), heroin, morphine, and LSD. Three of the more commonly used drugs today—and the ones that are the focus of this book—are Rohypnol, gamma hydroxybutyrate ( GHB ), and ketamine. Though Rohypnol and GHB were initially used as recreational drugs at clubs and raves, word soon spread among American youth that these drugs could be used quite effectively to commit rape. 

Other definitive metabolites which are used in our laboratory as indicators of drug use are cocaethylene, norcocaine, A9-carboxy-tetrahydrocaimabinol (carboxy-THC) (a substance which is not found in smoke from a marijuana cigarette), and the heroin metabolites 6-MAM and morphine glucuronide. Drugs and metabolites are measured by ultrasensitive GC/MS/MS or chemical ionization ion-trap GC/MS techniques requiring 5 mg or less of sample. ... 

See also Amphetamine Benzodiazepines Cocaine Codeine Dextromethorphan Heroin Hydrocodone LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethyiamide) Marijuana Methadone Methyienedioxymethamphetamine Morphine Phencycii-dine Propoxyphene. 

Unlike opium, morphine, or alcohol, cannabis was a relatively obscure drug. The so-called hashish vice was still confined to the large cities and to a minority of writers, students, thrill seekers, and the bored upper classes. Had it not been for certain social and economic changes and an ambitious bureaucrat who saw the marijuana issue as a way to save his dying department and his job as czar of narcotics enforcement, most Americans probably would not have heard about marijuana or hashish until the 1960s. 

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