Why is marihuana and THC stated as a “hallucogen” and who does marihuana and THC fit the criteria?
Marihuana and THC, as you know marihuana is a slang word for Cannibis Sativa,and THC is primary active chemical Cannibis Sativa, and Cannibis Indica.
i mean hallucinogen sorry…
How does it meet the criteria for a schedule I substance.
Well, the U.S government calls it “marihuana in a schedule I substance under hallucinogen
ok this question is so badly worded i can’t undertand it, edit it
You obviously haven’t smoked a lot if you have never been so stoned that you are tripping your box off. Perhaps you have never had good stuff?
Terrible drug anyway overrated by so many and really is the drug of choice for the lazy.
The criteria for something to be a schedule I substance is that people tend to abuse it and that it has little to no medicinal value.
Marijuana doesn’t really fit that criteria. It’s addictive properties are no stronger than those of alcohol or nicotine. There are many reasons for why marijuana was banned if you look at history, but few of them had to do with the drug itself. Timber barons wanted to protect their investments against competition from hemp, Christian purists wanted to ban anything that distracted people away from worship of God, and white racists wanted a legitimate excuse to persecute blacks and Mexican immigrants, who were the primary users of marijuana at the time.
Marijuana is not spelled with an h. and you do not hallucinate with weed. period. it makes you calm and you need extra time to think.They call it a hallucinogen because they need a reason to make it illegal. And people who smoke arent lazy, its lazy people who smoke. lazy people also drink, play games, and do nothing. I have a full time carreer and smoke, does that make me lazy? and its not addictive,only people who have addictive natures will be addicted, and they can be to anything. Anything and Everything can be addictive if you think about it.
Marijuana can indeed by a hallucinogen. Ask any pot head if they have ever seen “trails” or distorted colors.
I don’t think that marijuana is strictly a hallucinogenic drug. It is not like LSD for example whereupon you can imagine all kinds of weird stuff. But it can have you thinking things that are not real such as paranoid threats to your welfare.
It is of course addictive, causes depression, anxiety, confidence problems and lung and throat infections.
Marijuana can cause hallucinations, psychosis (temporary but may be clinically indistinguishable from schizophrenia), alters perception of space and time, can cause severe anxiety/agitation (a common aspect of hallucinogens), people “freak out,” and people may experience introspection, derealization, depersonalization, metacognition (thinking about thinking/knowing about knowing), and enhanced recollection (enhanced ability to remember past events may be associated with nostalgia).
There is no question that the range of effects is large- one person may feel a bit buzzed and relaxed yet another may have experiences that are much like those caused by LSD or another classic hallucinogen.
Also generally speaking there are four basic types of recreational drugs- hallucinogens, stimulants, depressants, and opioids (sometimes opioids are considered downers- they really are not). And under the law a narcotic only includes opioids and cocaine thus marijuana can’t legally be a narcotic.
Of those four classes where does marijuana fit best? I think most people can agree it fits best into the hallucinogens category. Just because marijuana is somewhat of an atypical hallucinogen does not preclude it from being in the category. Even dissociative drugs (which by definition cause different types of hallucinations and sensory perception than something like LSD) are easily called hallucinogens even though they are somewhat different. Although many dissociative’s like salvia and dextromethorphan do have opioid agonist actions but don’t produce most morphine-like effects.