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Journal of substance abuse treatment

J.Subst.Abuse Treat.

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Hashish is dried, crumbeled, pulverized, sifted, and compressed resin rich small leaves and flowering brachts of the plant Cannabis sativa. Usually mixed with tobacco of marijuana, hashish is smoked in a pipe or bong, a centuries old method originally discoverd by Persian, Arabian, and Indian peoples. In the United States, seized samples of hashish, when analyzed, currently contain about 4% concentration of the intoxicating Δ9-THC, about the same potency today as ordinary marijuana. Hashish is a powerful drug. The major effects of smoking hashish is intoxication: an altered state of suggestibility, thought, sensation, mood, and dream-like distortions of space and time. This article, a classic, printed in the forerunner of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, describes the self-experimental use of hashish by a New Hampshire physician in the mid 1800's. It is the first report of the intoxicating effects of cannabis in a major American medical journal.

cannabis, clinical article, history, human, intoxication, United States

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Schwartz,R. H.

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1985