Sentences with word «psychoactive»

A third group of 63 people with no history of psychoactive substance use served as the control.

In addition, the long - term effect of psychoactive drugs on the nursing infant should be handled cautiously, with risk - benefit counseling, and possible monitoring of infant growth and neurodevelopment.

The BPRL is dedicated to studying the effects of psychoactive drugs on brain function and human behavior.

Here's the point made endlessly by scientists or anyone with even a passing understanding of pharmacology: you can not test the causal mechanism for psychoactive effect in court.

There are about a dozen varieties of hemp plants that are grown for food, and all of them contain about 0.001 percent Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience investigating the transcriptional effects of psychoactive compounds in animal models of brain disease.

Note that substance abuse occurs in a high number of children with CD independent of whether they are treated with psychoactive medication.

Socio - Demographic Factors Associated with Psychoactive Substance Use among Commercial Motorcycle Operators in Kano, Nigeria

One of the least - noticed aspects of the new psychoactive substances bill is that it effectively scraps the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

«The proposed BDC offence level for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, the primary psychoactive component of cannabis) under the summary conviction offence is not directly linked to impairment, but is, rather, based on a precautionary or a crime prevention approach,» reads the draft.

«Many types of important research could potentially be affected by the bill, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where substances with psychoactive properties are important tools in helping scientists to understand a variety of phenomena, including consciousness, memory, addiction and mental illness,» the letter reads.

Psychedelic drugs are unique among other psychoactive chemicals in that users often describe «expanded consciousness,» including enhanced associations, vivid imagination and dream - like states.

Caffeine is the most commonly used psychoactive drug in the world — for good reason.

Now, Parker and others are experimenting with other psychoactive drugs such as clonazepam, imipramine and megestrol acetate.

The buzz around Fred Tomaselli's meticulous painting - collage hybrids frequently centers on the work's more loaded materials — ephedrine, aspirin, saccharine, an assortment of brand - name pharmaceuticals, marijuana, and other psychoactive plants — which Tomaselli assembles into kaleidoscopic patterns and scenes; looking at his pictures, one might infer that «using» a drug as a raw material should constitute or symbolize «being on drugs.»

The Home Office works itself into even more desperate twists - and - turns when it tries to explain why alcohol and caffeine aren't psychoactive substances.

However, despite state authorization to grow hemp, farmers in those states risk raids by federal agents if they plant the crop, due to the failure of federal policy to distinguish oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis (i.e., industrial hemp) from psychoactive varieties (i.e., marihuana).

Psychiatrist: Psychiatrists have a specialized medical degree, which allows them to prescribe medication with a focus on psychoactive medications for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder for example.

Both the low THC content and the high CBD / THC ratio make industrial hemp unsuitable for producing psychoactive effects when smoked or eaten.

THC, full name tetrahydrocannabionol, is the primary psychoactive compound found in the marijuana plant.

The two main compounds, delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), i.e. the most psychoactive cannabinoid, and cannabidiol (CBD) are found in both hemp and marijuana.

Unfortunately, because the DEA's Drug - War paranoia has confounded biologically distinct non-psychoactive industrial hemp varieties of cannabis with psychoactive marijuana varieties, the U.S. is the only major industrialized nation to prohibit the growing of industrial hemp.

Marijuana legalization has opened the door to a massive new industry, including psychoactive products for people who don't want to smoke anything.

But the fastest - growing trend is a more complicated class of compounds brewed up by trained chemists like Patrick Arnold who are searching for exotic steroids or pursuing novel psychoactive compounds.

It intends to raise C$ 10 million ($ 7.8 million) through an equity crowdfunding in the U.S. to build a marijuana production facility in British Columbia, eventually allowing it to extract cannabidiol — a cannabis compound without psychoactive properties — to treat medical conditions in both humans and animals.

Chandler's recent work investigates art as psychoactive substance igniting a psychedelic experience — a process by which the subconscious reveals itself to the conscious mind.

Nor will taxes be applied to oils that contain low amounts of THC, the primary psychoactive element in marijuana, that are used by children with certain medical conditions.

Some conditions have been shown to improve more rapidly when psychoactive medications are used.

Which of these alcohols is the least toxic, and is the one that makes up the main psychoactive agent in wine and beer?

A look inside Brooklyn Kava, where regulars come for a different sort of psychoactive experience.

Participants were excluded if they were taking psychoactive medications other than SSRI's or had metal objects in their body.

To obtain a noticeable psychoactive action, about ten micrograms of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) per kilo of body mass are needed.

Evidence from legal experts and leading academics, submitted to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), suggests that prosecutors will struggle to prove that many legal highs are actually psychoactive.

A steep rise in the number of children given psychoactive drugs for bipolar disorder and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder has been particularly controversial.

Products such as hemp seed and oil — which allow only a harmless, trace amount of THC to enter the human body and do not cause psychoactive effects — were not what Congress was seeking to ban.

In fact, caffeine is the world's most consumed psychoactive drug.

Almost weekly, a new synthetic psychoactive drug comes onto the market somewhere in Europe that can be ordered legally and easily, for example as an incense blend, via the Internet.

THC is the main psychoactive constituent in marijuana, and unlike with alcohol, no breath test exists that can accurately detect it.

Marijuana legalization has opened the door to a massive new industry, including psychoactive products for people who don't want to smoke anything.

In all three, he laid out his premise — bolstered by personally ingesting psychoactive mushrooms, yage, datura, pulque, mda, pcp, marijuana, cocaine, and coca — that there are no good or bad drugs, just good or bad relationships between people and drugs.

However, certain critics believe that certain prescription psychoactives, such as antidepressants and stimulants, are overprescribed and threaten patients» judgement and autonomy.

On this week's show: New research shows psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies, and a long - term study that questions how plants will deal with rising carbon dioxide levels

However, compared to other marijuana, hashish usually contains a higher concentration of Δ9 - tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the most potent psychoactive cannabinoid.

This plant contains six different psychoactive compounds, including kavain, which works to stimulate GABAA receptors and has been shown to help relieve anxiety.