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Cannabinols

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Marijuana is among the most widely used of the drugs described in this text. The health-care problems involved with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) (the most active ingredient in marijuana and hashish), include panic reactions, toxic reactions, and a great deal of anxiety in the general population about possible mental and physiological damage to young users. Because you will be called on, as a healthcare deliverer, to give information about this drug to worried parents and to teenagers attempting to make decisions about future use, this chapter presents information on the history, the physiology, and the medical effects of the cannabinols.

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Schuckit, M.A. (1989). Cannabinols. In: Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0767-0_7

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