... harvesting opium gum using primitive, unsanitary tools, made from whatever can be found nearby. The tools are often handed down from generation to generation. Just before reaching maturity, the poppy plant produces a flower. After about a week, the flower petals fall off, leaving a capsule. Raw opium gum is harvested from this capsule. The surface of the capsule is cut, ... compounds include the morphinians, benzomorphans, methadones, phenylpiperidines and propionanilides. While two dimensional representatives of the compounds appear to be quite different, three-dimensional molecular m...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in retaining political support until the onset of the Great Depression radically changed voters priorities. Repeal resulted more from this contextual shift than from characteristics of prohibition itself." It is interesting that the Great Depression is being blamed for a change in voter's priorities. I've heard more ... quot;It is this rigorous FDA approval process, not popular vote, that should determine what is, and what is not medicine.  The raw marijuana plant, which contains nearly 500 different chemical compounds, has not met the safety and efficacy standards of this process.  Acc...

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• Approx Pages: 16
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since the 1960s the plant species Cannabis sativa L., also known as marijuana, has been the topic of much controversy, being illegal, in its medicinal and recreational implementations. The reasons for its illegality, however, are just ... , are not available to people who may want or need them. If all the negative side effects of marijuana are listed, it would be apparent they are similar to the characteristics of negative side effects of alcohol, legal opiates and cigarettes (all legal), which makes it hypocritical to condemn one substance, but endorse and tax the others when they are equall...

• Word Count: 2063
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate