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Marijuana goes on sale in Spanish pharmacies02/09/2005
Marina Geli, the Catalan government's health adviser, said an agreement on this between regional authorities and the national health ministry had been reached and would be signed soon. Marijuana will be used to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis and AIDS patients, and only in cases where all other methods of treatment and pain relief have failed, added Marina Geli. The head of the Catalan health department, Rafael Manzanera, noted that the sale of marijuana will help regulate its use by those patients who previously used it without the knowledge of doctors. What is marijuana Marijuana is the dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant. Marijuana is also known by many "slang" names, there are more than two hundred of them. Sinsemilla (Spanish name), hashish, and hash oil are the most potent forms of marijuana. All forms of marijuana are mind-altering drugs. In other words, they change the way the brain works. Cannabis preparations contain tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main active compound in marijuana. In addition, marijuana contains more than 400 other chemical compounds. The effect of marijuana on the user depends on the strength or potency of the THC. This drug became especially popular after the Second World War. Its relative cheapness, the fact that the plant blooms everywhere, from meadows and fields to windowsill boxes, ease of use for smoking and stimulating effects - all this contributes to its use. The drug's effect on each person depends on specific conditions, such as how strong the marijuana is (how much THC it contains), what effect the smoker expects to get, where (what place) the use occurs, how exactly the marijuana is used, whether the smoker has used alcohol or other drugs. Some people feel nothing at all when smoking marijuana. Others may feel a sense of relaxation or excitement. Sometimes marijuana makes the user feel extremely thirsty and very angry. Some users experience very unpleasant effects from marijuana - they may suffer from sudden feelings of fear and paranoid thoughts. This is most likely to happen when strong forms of marijuana are used. Marijuana also usually causes a slowly developing intoxication, which is accompanied by a feeling of bliss. At first, confusion and some loss of motor control may occur, but gradually they give way to euphoria. Perceptual distortions of a pleasant and bizarre nature are possible, and much less often - bright colored hallucinations. In rare cases, transient psychotic symptoms appear. Immediate physical reactions include increased heart rate, decreased body temperature, and in some people, red eyes. The common view is that smoking marijuana pushes a person to use heroin. Very often, the views of experts on this issue are polar opposites. As always, the answer lies somewhere in the middle between the polar points of view. Marijuana has no direct chemical connection with heroin. From the point of view of metabolism in the human body, each of these drugs cannot cause a chemically conditioned "craving" for the other. This fact can be considered scientifically proven. Another matter is the psychological relationship between drugs in the teenage environment. According to research, marijuana use can quickly lead to addiction among teenagers who have their first serious run-ins with the law. People who smoke marijuana heavily and frequently develop a tolerance to it. "Tolerance" means that the user needs increasingly larger doses of the drug to get the same effect he or she previously got from smaller doses. newsru.com
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