Pot has no specific drug class, but legally it is considered a Schedule 1 Narcotic by the DEA. This means it’s thought as having a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. Multiple states (15 now including Arizona as the latest), disagree with this and have laws on the books legalizing pot for healing usage.
Low grade pot contains 1 to 3 percent delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is what is typically sold recreationally. THC is well regarded as the most active psychoactive agent in pot. High grade pot known as sinsemilla contains 7 to 8 percent Banana jelly strain for sale THC and hashish is between 7 and 20 percent. The most concentrated form of pot is hash oil which might contain up to 70% THC!
Common terms for pot include: reefer, pot, herb, ganja, your lawn, old man, blanche, marijuana, sinsemilla, bhang, hash, tar, hashish, hash oil, chronic, and dagga.
How one feels: People’s experience with smoking pot will change greatly between individuals. Usually one experiences, relaxation and mood level within minutes and about a half hour later sedation and drowsiness. Periods of contemplative silence are often interspersed with hilarity.
Eating pot, whether as high-grade or hashish, takes a lot longer for the effects to begin. There is a higher tendency for a hallucinogenic response.
Learning and memory function may be affected for a prolonged time period even with the other effects wear off. It takes some time for the brain to eliminate pot (and its metabolites), so cognitive function may be affected for over a day after smoking or ingesting one amount.
Fatal overdose with pot is not reported. A heavy amount may cause a person feeling afraid or anxious. Even though an overdose is not seen, it does affect judgment and complex coordination. Hence the biggest anxiety about pot is affected driving skills, hence accidents, and/or dangerous mistakes in judgment.
Pot does increase heart rate and places greater workload on the heart. So there may be connections with heart or blood pressure medications, but a lot of research needs to be done to elucidate the particulars. There’s been one study showing pot in conjunction with cocaine can lead to fatal cardiovascular disease.
The cannabis plant is the reason all of the psychoactive properties of pot. Tetra-hydro-cannabinol (THC) has been apparently found in internal organs of an Silk mummy from 950 BC. By the 1840’s, pot was being used frequently to enhance creativity by artists and intellectuals in England.
The original Western european explorers brought hemp to America for production of string and cloth. It was not prior to the early the twentieth Century that pot begun to impact American society directly.