Pharmacological Effects of Marijuana
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چکیده
There is an unnecessary aura of uncertainty and confusion in the discussions of the pharmacology of marijuana and its various preparations and constituents. Part of the uncertainty is generated by those who believe that marijuana is a frighteningly dangerous drug in no way comparable to any accepted social drug, and, at the other extreme, by those individuals of increasing number who claim it is a purely beneficent drug in no way comparable to any acceptable social drug. Additional reluctance to summarize the pharmacology of marijuana stems from the assumption that research on its pharmacology is scant, dated, and of poor quality. Certainly much research remains to be done. However, the inability to present a consistent formulation of the pharmacology of marijuana may be due not so much to lack of data as to the failure to apply some unifying concept to the fragmentary information available.
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