Cannabinoid

and Human Services filed a patent (US Patent #6,630,507) for cannabinoids that was awarded in 2003 for “cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.” This totally contradiction of the United States Government’s own definition for the classification of a Schedule 1 substance having no medicinal benefits. The US also contradicts itself because “the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has approved synthetic versions of the cannabinoid Δ9-THC in the form of Dronabinol (Marinol®) and…

A little boy in Colorado was given marijuana by his father. You might wonder why a parent would do that. The little boy had seizures at least three or four times a day. He took his medicine from the doctor daily. It barely worked. The father’s friend, a doctor, said that another kid he knew had tried medical marijuana, and it had worked. The father tried it on his son, and it worked better than the medicine ever did. Every three or four days, the son would get the medical marijuana, and it…

relieve the pain of their problems. Some of these include glaucoma, Crohn's Disease, cancer, muscle spasms, and more. (WebMD.com) Glaucoma is a leading cause to blindness. (ncbi.gov). Those with glaucoma, use the medical marijuana because the cannabinoids or CBS lowers the intraocular pressure or IOP level which could end up treating glaucoma. In other words, the medical marijuana can lower the levels of fluids in your eye…

seeds, flowers, and stems of the hemp plant (NIDA). Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol also known as THC, is the main chemical in marijuana that is accountable for the psychotropic “high” effect. Marijuana also includes a chemical compound known as cannabinoids. Teenagers are known to use Marijuana. Teenagers tend to think that marijuana is not harmful because it comes from a plant, but tobacco comes from a plant but it is highly addictive and harmful. According to the Monitoring the Future Study in…

Over the years the debate over using cannabis and medical marijuana as medicine has been a very controversial topic, people all around the country abuse the use of medical marijuana and partake in recreational use only. Cannabis and medical marijuana use should no longer be legal due to the highly addictive content within the drug, drastic incarceration rate increase, and also fatal incidents due to the recreational use rather than medical use and should be banned within the United States.…

IV. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy Another major facet of sports-related concussions is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as it’s considered to be a gradual neurodegeneration due to repeated mTBI (Gavett et al., 2011). Since there are many high-contact sports (such as football, hockey, boxing, etc.) as well as high chances of accidental injury in non-contact sports – repeated head injuries are very common (Gavett et al., 2011). This is another reason sports-related concussions…

It also found that pot smoke might actually help to PREVENT lung cancer. Unlike tobacco, which has nicotine and is a known carcinogen, weed contains cannabinoids and THC, which are found to prevent cancer. Also the best news for all the stoners out there: it is impossible to die of an overdose so go on and light a joint! 3. it’s all medicinal In Ancient China, the hemp plant was known as Ma and its uses…

medicinal purposes would improve human’s health. Marijuana is very helpful in medical conditions. Marijuana contains some chemicals that are beneficial to human and may help treat a range of disease or symptoms. One of its chemicals called cannabinoid, cannabinoid can be use in pill form. Despite all these benefits, some people believe that marijuana should be illegal. But I favor that it should be legal for medicinal purposes. I’m going to defend my claim that marijuana should be legal for…

Gas chromatography (like any other chromatography) is a separation technique in which the mobile phase is a gas. This technique is applied for the separation of volatile substances. This method separates a mixture into its components and is used to measure the concentration as well as it identifies the components. GC creates a time separation rather than physical separation which means that the components are separated in time. After they are detected, a chromatogram is generated. Each peak in…

400 chemicals found in weed, which are also known as cannabinoids, called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol AKA THC. This chemical is responsible for the psychoactive effects it has the human mind. It accomplishes this by activating the cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2. The CB1 receptors are located in the brain and the CB2 are located in the eyes, also the tonsils and thymus glands. Theses receptors act like light bulbs, when electricity (cannabinoids) comes in contact with them they turn on,…