Indian hemp against devil's cherries?

Indian Hemp: A Social Menace

and a barrister, writes with a sense of urgency which is appalled by the complacency and ignorance of the medical profession. He begins with a brief survey of Indian hemp through history, and discusses the rapid increase of its American relative marihuana since 1935 : his view is that there is an even more recent, but disturbingly quick, spread now going on in this country; while annual prosecu...

Insanity Following the Use of Indian Hemp

There is a special form of mental disease met with in India usually classed as Toxic Insanity which seems to have a direct relation to the excessive use of hemp drugs in any form. It has a definite train of sj'mptoms of a fairly uniform character; there is in the large majority of those affected no hereditary history of insanity, nervous disease or tubercle; the sufferers are men of every age (...

The Active Principle of Indian Hemp

active principle; and said that it possessed much narcotic activity. No subsequent observers, however, have been able to obtain, by the process employed by Smith, any body which fully answers to the description of Smith's ' Cannabin. ' In 1S57 Personnel) resolved the volatile oil, obtained by distillation of ^e plant, with water, into Cannabene (C18 H?0) a light hydrocarbon, and a Solid crystal...

Industrial hemp decreases intestinal motility stronger than indian hemp in mice.

BACKGROUND Indian hemp has shown beneficial effects in various gastrointestinal conditions but it is not widely accepted due to high content of tetrahydrocannabinol resulting in unwanted psychotropic effects. AIM Since industrial hemp rich in cannabidiol lacks psychotropic effects the aim of research was to study the effects of industrial hemp on intestinal motility. MATERIALS AND METHODS A...

An Introduction to Industrial Hemp, Hemp Agronomy, and UK Agronomic Hemp Research