Tetrahydrocannabinol Molecule
A Tetrahydrocannabinol Molecule is a Cannabinoid that ...
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- See: Cannabis, Cannabis (Drug), Cannabinoid, Psychoactive Drug, Isomers, Elicit Drug.
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2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tetrahydrocannabinol Retrieved:2018-2-12.
- Tetrahydrocannabinol, abbreviated THC, is one of at least 113 cannabinoids identified in cannabis. THC is the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis. With chemical name, (−)-trans-Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol, the term THC also refers to cannabinoid isomers. Dronabinol is a synthetic form of THC approved by the FDA as an appetite stimulant for people with AIDS and antiemetic for people receiving chemotherapy. The pharmaceutical formulation dronabinol is an oily resin provided in capsules available by prescription in the US, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand.
Like most pharmacologically-active secondary metabolites of plants, THC is a lipid found in cannabis, [1] assumed to be involved in the plant's self-defense, putatively against insect predation, ultraviolet light, and environmental stress. THC, along with its double bond isomers and their stereoisomers, is one of only three cannabinoids scheduled by the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances (the other two are dimethylheptylpyran and parahexyl). It was listed under Schedule I in 1971, but reclassified to Schedule II in 1991 following a recommendation from the WHO. Based on subsequent studies, the WHO has recommended the reclassification to the less-stringent Schedule III. [2] Cannabis as a plant is scheduled by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Schedule I and IV). It is specifically still listed under Schedule I by US federal law under the Controlled Substances Act passed by the US Congress in 1970.
- Tetrahydrocannabinol, abbreviated THC, is one of at least 113 cannabinoids identified in cannabis. THC is the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis. With chemical name, (−)-trans-Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol, the term THC also refers to cannabinoid isomers. Dronabinol is a synthetic form of THC approved by the FDA as an appetite stimulant for people with AIDS and antiemetic for people receiving chemotherapy. The pharmaceutical formulation dronabinol is an oily resin provided in capsules available by prescription in the US, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand.
- ↑ Firn, Richard (2010). Nature's Chemicals. Oxford: Biology.
- ↑ A Primer on the UN Drug Control Conventions. Transnational Institute
2010
- (Nutt et al., 2010) ⇒ David J. Nutt, Leslie A. King, and Lawrence D. Phillips. (2010). “Drug Harms in the UK: A Multicriteria Decision Analysis.” In: The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
- Figure 2: Drugs ordered by their overall harm scores, showing the separate contributions to the overall scores of harms to users and harm to others. The weights after normalisation (0–100) are shown in the key (cumulative in the sense of the sum of all the normalised weights for all the criteria to users, 46; and for all the criteria to others, 54). CW=cumulative weight. GHB=γ hydroxybutyric acid. LSD=lysergic acid diethylamide. File:2010 DrugHarmsintheUKaMulticriteriaD-Figure2.jpg
2007
- (Nutt et al., 2007) ⇒ David Nutt, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, and Colin Blakemore. (2007). “Development of a Rational Scale to Assess the Harm of Drugs of Potential Misuse.” In: Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4