Sentences with phrase «psychoactive ingredient»

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.

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

A study reported Sept. 5 by neuroscientists at Indiana University finds that a non-psychoactive compound in cannabis called cannabidiol, or CBD, appears to protect against the long - term negative psychiatric effects of THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

The PAM used in the IU - led study worked by amplifying two brain compounds — anandamide and 2 - arachidonoylglycerol — commonly called «endocannabinoids» because they act upon the CB1 receptor in the brain that responds to THC, the major psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

While we don't know for certain if dogs are less able to tolerate the active psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, THC, we do know that the size of the dog plays a big part.

The cannabinoids, principally delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol and synthetic analogs, are psychoactive ingredients of marijuana.

If you've been on the conscious eating path for any length of time, then you may already know that hemp seeds sold for kitchen use contain a completely insignificant amount of THC (delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gets people «high»)... just in case you wondered.

The research comes from the team that discovered how the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, known as THC, reduces tumour growth in cancer patients.

Industrial hemp — strains of Cannabis sativa with just trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in hemp's narcotic cousin, marijuana — was perfectly legal to cultivate (indeed, the feds even encouraged its production during World War II as part of its Hemp for Victory campaign) until language in the federal Controlled Substances Act blurred the definition of industrial hemp, melding it with the definition of pot, its prohibited cousin.

Some of the Whoopi & Maya products will reportedly just contain cannabidiol (CBD), which unlike marijuana's main psychoactive ingredient, THC, does not cause feelings of euphoria or intoxication, the characteristic «high» associated with pot.

Despite their relation to marijuana, hemp seeds contain virtually no trace of the psychoactive ingredient in their controversial cousin.

Yet the shroud of negativity lifted under the influence of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in the hallucinogenic mushrooms used in sacred Native American rituals.

Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the plant's main psychoactive ingredient, binds to a class of receptors on neurons that are involved in mediating pain, appetite, and mood, among other things.

Marjolein Soethoudt, a PhD candidate in Van der Stelt's research group, studied together with 12 international academic groups, the National Institute of Health (US) and pharmaceuticals concern Hoffman - LaRoche (Switzerland), the 18 most commonly used reference substances, including the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, Δ9 - THC.

Exposing adolescent rats to THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)-- the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana — can lead to molecular and behavioral alterations in the next generation of offspring, even though progeny were not directly exposed to the drug, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found.

Similar default mode network changes were identified in a study of 30 volunteers who took an intravenous dose of another psychedelic drug: psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in hallucinogenic, or «magic,» mushrooms.

But if you take pure, isolated delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana — you'll experience «a high that has no specific character, so that seems boring,» says Mowgli Holmes, a geneticist and founder of a cannabis genetics company Phylos Bioscience.

THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the psychoactive ingredient behind the characteristic mental high.

Synthetic cannabinoids, similar to tetrahydrocannabinol (the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana), bind to cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, triggering similar neurophysiological effects.

Marjolein Soethoudt, a PhD candidate in Van der Stelt's research group, studied together with 12 international academic groups, the National Institute of Health (US) and pharmaceuticals concern Hoffman - LaRoche (Switzerland), the 18 most commonly used reference substances, including the psychoactive ingredient in marihuana, Δ9 - THC.

But delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, makes people high and eventually causes physical dependence and tolerance to its pain - relieving properties.

Georgia, along with a growing number of pets, eats hemp - based capsules that contain only trace amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol — or THC — the psychoactive ingredient that provides the cannabis high.

The federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 effectively banned the production of all cannabis plants regardless of the level of the psychoactive ingredient THC.

While the plants do look alike, hemp plants contain just trace amounts of tetrahydrocannibinol, or THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana — moreover, agricultural experts point out that planting pot anywhere near hemp wouldn't be such a good idea anyway, since cross-pollination would render the marijuana impotent, a fact the DEA continually ignores.

Such products were thought not to contain tetrahydrocannabinols (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and were made from various fibrous plants, including plants such as Cannabis sativa, banana and jute.

Unlike pot plants, which are bred to produce high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the plant's main psychoactive ingredient, hemp plants are bred for seed, oil, and fiber — for use in consumer and industrial products — from plants that contain no more than 0.03 % THC.

The bill would allow farmers who participate in a pilot program to grow hemp that has less than 0.3 per cent of the psychoactive ingredient, terahydrocannibinol, or THC.

In addition, laboratories registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration must sample and test the crop to ensure the plants contain less than 0.3 per cent of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

Industrial hemp is a genetic cousin of marijuana, but without the psychoactive ingredients.

Many cannabinoids have been identified, but two preponderate: THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient of Cannabis, and CBD, which is an anti-psychoactive ingredient.

In October 2001, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) published three rules in the Federal Register (66 FR 5153051544) that make illegal any hemp products that could cause THC, a psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, to enter the human body.

had adopted a set of roadside tests designed to determine if the driver is impaired by marijuana, as well as threshold limits for blood and saliva levels of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

Illinois had adopted a set of roadside tests designed to determine if the driver is impaired by marijuana, as well as threshold limits for blood and saliva levels of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.