Sentences with phrase «of psychoactive chemicals»

The same problem shows up in the new wave of psychoactive chemicals mass - produced overseas.

But it contains very low levels of the psychoactive chemical known as THC.

Not exact matches

It contains a combination of chemicals made to mimic 9 - tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

FACED with an ever - growing list of substances its citizens are ingesting to get high, the UK government has decided it would be easier to ban every psychoactive substance by default, and instead create a list of mind - altering chemicals that British subjects are permitted to consume, such as tea (20 June).

Alcohol has been around for at least 10,000 years, but recent advances in chemical analysis of old pots reveal that other psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies some 5000 years ago in the ancient Middle East.

Cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) is the principal target of Δ9 - tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive chemical from Cannabis sativa with a wide range of therapeutic applications and a long history of recreational use.

CBD, or cannabidiol, is available as a supplement and comes from the same cannabis plant as the stuff you would smoke, but contains only trace amounts (less than 0.3 percent) of THC — the chemical component that has psychoactive effects.

Whilst much of the past research on Cannabis sativa has focused explicitly on Tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), the chemical responsible for the psychoactive effects that the plant is more renowned for, research supporting CBD is beginning to emerge.

We are proud to be building the first homes in Hawaii made of «hemp - crete», an age - old, building / manufacturing material that is derived from a distant cousin of the «cannabis sativa» plant species we all know as marijuana, though with only a negligible amount of tetrahydrocannabinol - the psychoactive chemical credited for the marijuana high.

He then went on to criticize the government for having outlawed cultivation of this crop, even though «in every other industrialized country, industrial hemp, defined to contain less than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, may be legally grown.»

The law classifies hemp as either a fiber or oilseed crop, and must not contain any more than three tenths of one percent THC (the psychoactive chemical in marijuana).

Aside from being a bureaucratic mess, coming up with a standardized blood or breath test is also a really tricky chemistry problem because of the properties of the main psychoactive chemical in cannabis: delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.