said Virginie Despentes, the writer, in le Monde on 13th April 2006, regarding cocaine.
“When you arrive in Paris from the provinces and hang out with rich people, the first thing which shocks you is that everyone has cocaine, it’s their drug, it’s everywhere. […]
Even if you don’t have money, or the inclination to spend your money on it, you can easily get it when you are out. It’s a stupid social drug for people who know that it creates a rapid connection so if they want to get you in their corner, you’ll get coke very easily. […]
I took a little of it at the start, then a lot more during the film Baise-moi, for two years and of all the drugs that I’ve known, I have my worst memories of it. It’s true that the first few times it’s funny. Baise-moi wouldn’t have been finished without coke, because we would have been more conscious of all that was happening around us, we’d have had more normal sensibilities … It helps you keep going all night. I wrote my novel Les Jolies Choses in 3-4 days coked up, it unblocks things. You quickly get high for a short amount of time, then you have to take it again straight away and after a while the brain gets confused. […]
In the last two years, it’s really spread everywhere, in squats as well as in the [internationally renown academic institutes] Polytechique and Ecole Nationale d’Administration, it’s as if in people’s minds it's on the same level as cannabis or alcohol. If I want to buy some, I can buy it any time, in many ways. It’s easier to find than grass.[...] It’s the same in the provinces, before people didn’t take it much in Nancy or Lyon or Rennes. Now when I go there, I see that people are using it a lot: teachers, social workers, social welfare employees, lawyers. They tell me that in Lyon, it’s even found in public high schools […]
In some quarters I’m sure that eight out of ten people are using coke and are affected by coke. But they don’t say it, because this is France. We are Catholics, we do things, but on the sly … A guy like X … a trendy writer, isn’t really going to say how much he spends on coke. If people knew the amount certain privileged people spend on coke and compared it to what they earn, they’d see that they’re being fucked over. X … drops ten times the minimum wage on coke each month. But he’s not going to say: I spend 10,000 euros a month on coke and fuck you … no one could hear that. What’s more, in these circles coke is completely idealized. But me, I’ve never seen anyone made brilliant by it long term. Cocaine just turns people into idiots: arrogant, talkative, very confident, aggressive, paranoid, certainly not great. […]
It’s a drug with includes you in society, a drug for white people, politically very marked. Basically, it’s the drug of advertising, and people in advertising are pricks. You don’t have to go far to find it, people in advertising, television, press, cinema, politicians take coke, this is no coincidence. […] Coke, for keeping control over people is great. Once you are into cocaine, the only thing that counts is to buy it, so you work for it no matter what the conditions. You think less, work more, you need more money. Less sleep, a lot less self-reflection and no margin for rebelling, you can’t rebel when you have to take coke the next day. In addition, coke clouds your judgement, so if the boss talks to you, you’ll do what he says, because whatever else tomorrow you have to have coke.
People that I knew and liked are not the same, they have changed. I even see 16 year olds who are at it, sons of the middleclass… The most desperate cases that I’ve seen, are the girls who have more problems to deal with than the guys. There must be a thing with estrogen and coke, they don’t go together. The women are also more vunerable because it makes them thinner. They say to themselves, if I give up I’ll gain weight, obviously the first trap. Personally, I don’t think that I’ve returned to myself, I’m not the same emotionally. Something in me has changed, a chemical balance has been altered: breaking into tears, anxiety… I want to see a discourse that will happen ten years from now when we begin to pay for the damage. And not just for the heart attacks in people aged 55. We don’t talk about the depression that will be created. This drug is total suicide [...].”
It is easy to find information on the harmful effects of tobacco!
At the same time, misinformation would have you believe that tobacco is a drug.
Many young people nowadays are convinced that tobacco is the drug of adults and that the drug of young people is cannabis.
WE MUST TELL THEM THE TRUTH!
This product is harmful, toxic and dangerous for the health.
We all know that using tobacco increases the risks of cancers, cardiovascular disease ...
Tobacco is highly addictive (difficult to go without) but does not cause habituation (the need to increase the dose and then change produce to obtain the same effect). The smoker will move from one cigarette to a pack a day, then two ... but he will stay on tobacco until he decides to stop.
The impact on health is important and tobacco should be the subject of proper prevention: zero consumption
ATTENTION: DO NOT LIE TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE!
Tobacco is not a psychotropic drug.
They know very well that a person is not going to "get high" on a pack of cigarettes.
It is a biochemical poison that will not affect their spirit:
You do not become a drug addict by using tobacco!
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a part of the UN, responsible for monitoring the implementation of international contracts relating to the control of drugs has never included tobacco on its list of drugs.
France was denounced in one of the INCB reports for having put tobacco,alcohol and cannabis on the same level, effectively trivialising and minimalising the danger of cannabis.
We have plenty of testimonies that prove that it is through will power that one stops using tobacco!
The best thing is to never start.
Warning: the so called anti tobacco pill marketed in France under the name Zyban or Wellbutrin has terrible secondary effects.
It is an old anti-depressant, a psychotropic drug, made fashionable again as a "convenient" alternative to cigarettes ...
OPIATE-SEDATIVE-PSYCHOACTIVE
Heroin can be inhaled, smoked or injected.
MANUFACTURE
INHALING OF HEROIN
It is widespread and very affordable nowadays.
It is a trap which frequently ensnares users of cannabis.
Unlike shooting heroin, which makes people nervous because of the injecting, many are caught out during a party because they are unaware that heroin can be inhaled.
Unfortunately, it is most often in this manner that people have their first encounter with heroin.
The user is unaware that he will soon need to shoot up for the first time (dependence develops quickly).
SHOOTING OF HEROIN
Brown heroin (brown sugar) is not very soluble, drug addicts dissolve it by mixing it with an acid (lemon juice) and heating it in a small spoon prior to injecting it.
Heroin causes a highly relaxed mental and physical state, "flashes" and a "high".
Finding the drug quickly becomes the principle activity for the heroin addict. In case of withdrawal, the user can experience intense anxiety, insomnia, pain, respiratory and cardio-vascular depression which can be fatal.
High doses of heroine cause delirium and hallucinations.
ALL organs and bodily functions are affected. As with all drugs, heroin leads to depression and suicide.
Habituation happens very quickly with this product, therefore it is necessary to increase the frequency of usage. Withdrawal from heroine by total abstinence is very effective and not dangerous for the person. Substitution treatment using Methadone or Subutex is not an efficient therapy but rather a postponement of the problem ...
SPEED-BALL
Speed-ball, which is heroin mixed with cocaine to be snorted, is currently becoming widespread in Europe. Heroin is very often found with cocaine, hashish, ecstasy, amphetamines or benzodiazepines.
A heroin addict strives in vain to recapture his initial high. It is a desperate quest for an absolute ecstacy.
STIMULANT - PSYCHOSTIMULANT
Cocaine is a powerful stimulant drug. It leads to strong dependency.
MANUFACTURE
Cocaine is made from part of the coca leaf. There are over 200 types of coca in South America, of which 2 types have leaves particularly rich in alkaloids.
The producing countries are Peru, Colombia and Bolivia.
During the chemical process for extracting cocaine, 98% of the nutritive and medical components of the leaf are destroyed.
Once picked, the leaves are put to soak for several days in a sort of lime.
Then a solvent, eg kerosene, is added.
After that the leaves are removed, sulfuric acid is poured in and one has crack, cocaine base.
To make cocaine, it must then be dissolved in acetone, hydrochloric acid and then pure alcohol.
To get 1kg of cocaine base takes
The chemical products used will then leach into the soil.
The effects of cocaine
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THE COCA LEAF
It has been used for over 10,000 years.
In 1961, the UN classed coca as a poisonous plant and included it in its list of narcotics. The indigenous Colombians were considered as savages who must be civilized under the law of 1889/1890, which was still in force at that time.
In 1988, the Anti-Narcotic Convention abolished the banning of the leaf, recongizing the importance of coca in the traditions of indigenous people. They recongnized the benfits revealed in 1901 by the work of W. Golden Mortimern that it was a particularly rich nutritional supplement for a malnourished population.
The Constitutional Court made a clear distinction between coca leaves and cocaine.
Mortimer described the benefits of the coca leaf thus: "The coca leaf contains more calcium than milk, more phosphorous than fish, more iron than spinach, it is a prodigious food."
Patented in 1954, methylphenidate is prescribed to treat depression and sleep disorders.
The chemical structure of methylphenidate, Ritalin, is phenylethylamine, which has pharmacological properties similar to those of amphetamines.
Popular name "kiddy coke".
World consumption in 2011: 52 tons (1.7 billion daily doses).
Production in the U.S.:
1990: 1.8 tons 2011: 41 tonnes
Given to so-called "hyperactive" children.
For 15 years, Ritalin, the obedience pill has been prescribed to millions of American children with disastrous health consequences.
In France, this terrible amphetamine is increasingly prescribed.
ALCOHOL
Everyone has used alcohol enough to know its harmful effects.
Alcohol is a sedative drug. In regularly drinking high quantities of alcohol, one does not become a drug-addict, but an alcoholic. It is through the destruction of the liver that one becomes alcoholic. Several years are needed to destroy the liver. If a person becomes alcoholic, there is only one solution: total abstinence.
If a person mixes alcohol with another psychotropic drug like cannabis, poppers, antidepressant, cocaine, stain remover, white spirit and so on, he is at great risk of rapidly become a drug-addict.
Alcohol is often used as a potentializer. Young people take it with their psychotropic drugs, such as cannabis, stain remover, sleeping pills, in order to get high. It is a habit currently spreading to all spheres of society. Very few young people consume only alcohol. Parents need to tell them of the great risks they are taking.
METHAMPHETAMINE
Methamphetamines have been very common in France for about ten years. It circulates in all "trendy" circles. It is also called speed, ice, crystal and has the same features as ecstasy. In high schools many cannabis users have already tried it. It has always been used at rave parties. It is easy to manufacture and as with ecstasy, France is a very productive country.
AEROSOLS
Nitrous oxide and other pressurized gases such as those contained in whipped cream canisters or computer anti-dust sprays also have hallucinogenic effects. In a few seconds they produce excitement, dizziness, euphoria, loss of consciousness and affect the central nervous system through lack of oxygen. Moreover they are inhaled under pressure and can provoke lung frostbite and vocal chords injuries, (eg. immediately after taking this drug the voice becomes lower)
STAIN REMOVER
Stain removers are derived from ethylene. They are hallucinogenic but their effect is more calming, unlike poppers and aerosols, which are more stimulating. They cause damage that is neurological (deafness, tremor) and intellectual (dementia).
RITALIN
Patented in 1954, methylphenidate is prescribed to treat depression and sleep disorders.
The chemical structure of methylphenidate, Ritalin, is phenylethylamine, which has pharmacological properties similar to those of amphetamines.
Popular name "kiddy coke".
World consumption in 2011: 52 tons (1.7 billion daily doses).
Production in the U.S.:
1990: 1.8 tons / 2011: 41 tons
Given to so-called "hyperactive" children.
For 15 years, Ritalin, the obedience pill has been prescribed to millions of American children with disastrous health consequences.
In France, this terrible amphetamine is increasingly prescribed.
LEGAL PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
They are very frequently used by teenagers, crushed and swallowed with alcohol. Their effects are stimulating, sedative or hallucinogenic depending on the variety and the dose – see psychotropic drug table.
Volatile nitrites have similar effects to those of nitrous oxide. Moreover they can provoke panic attacks, heart palpitations and headaches. They are also responsible for deaths by anoxia. They are vasodilators frequently used to relax sphincter muscles. They are carcinogenic and provoke serious immune deficiencies.
This vasodilator is used as a medicine with high caution to treat patients with heart diseases and angina with coronary spasms.
It is very fashionable among homosexuals and used alone, with other drugs or Viagra. it can lead to cardio-vascular and pulmonary accidents.
Beware
More and more frequently school nurses and pupils report the use of poppers "for fun" by secondary pupils, male or female, who do not know anything about its dangerous effects.
It is sought after for its rapid whirling sensations. Poppers rises for a few seconds the mass of the brain -and all organs- which accounts for its psychedelic effects.
These young people do not know they put their life in great danger and cause their organs -brain, liver, lungs, heart, kidneys...- to age prematurely.
Numerous cases of lasting visual loss due to degradation of the photoreceptive cells of the retina are reported.
The poor man's cocaine.
Its effect is rapid and ephemeral. It looks like a stone which is heated creating smoke that is inhaled.
Addiction is immediate: one to three uses are enough.
A crack-user is not able to go to school. His life becomes a living hell, he cannot socialize anymore. He spends all his time looking for money to satisfy his need for the product.
STIMULANTINTRODUCTION
It is an amphetamine. Hence it has all the characteristics of an amphetamine.
The MDMA molecule - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine – is extremely dangerous. The purer the product, the more dangerous it is. It is very easy to use: the ecstasy pill is "popped".
It comes in various forms – pills, capsules, tablets and so on. Colors may vary. Ecstasy is also called the love pill, Cadillac, X, E.
It is manufactured very easily in illegal laboratories. The content in MDMA – the active ingredient – varies from 9 to 117mg per pill. Other drugs can be mixed with it – alcohol, cocaine, antidepressant, LSD and so on.
If mixed with alcohol, this drug is very dangerous.
EFFECTS OF ECSTASY
Ecstasy is a stimulant.
Whether pure or not, MDMA can lead to brain damage, heart disorders, nausea, panic attacks, depression, paranoia and so on.
Taken in high doses, it can have hallucinogenic effects similar to those of LSD.
The inner temperature of amphetamine consumers during a "techno" or a rave party can reach 107 °F. Taken in high dosage, it causes convulsions that can lead to death.
One of the risks is to go beyond the limits of one's physical endurance without feeling exhaustion.
Noise and heat enhance the product's toxicity. Some deaths are due to body exhaustion.
When the effects of ecstasy fade away, one feels depressed, confused and aches. Some dealers capitalize on this by offering heroin to mask the coming down effects – "burn out".
Caution:
Ecstasy can trigger depressions, inability to reason, loss of memory and so on. These serious disorders can occur months or years after taking the pills – 4 to 7 years.
The consumption of ecstasy and other amphetamines is becoming more and more widespread. Severe intoxications and deaths have been increasing regularly over the past 10 years. Deaths often occur after taking moderate doses.
One tablet can be lethal or can destroy the kidneys irrevocably, leaving the person requiring life-long dialysis treatment.
CONSEQUENCES OF ECSTASY CONSUMPTION
Testimonies
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“I have seen a guy who is stuck permanently stoned. Every morning, he stares into space. He looks like he is retarded. He got like that after popping. I know many of them who have gone into psychiatric hospitals. Parents don’t know why they go to a psychiatrist. No one seems to understand how this has happened. We can’t say anything, but all of us know.” Elsa, aged 17, upper middle class background, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France |
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"Rave parties are OK as long as you don't take X. But as soon as you start, you'll assume the people who tell you to stop are assholes. You'll think you have found something really cool and won't let anybody try to tell you otherwise. As soon as you start to like it, it's too late, you're done for" Patrick, drug-addict Extract from Et si on parlait du haschich? by Marie-Christine d'Welles |
STIMULANT
Introduction
Amphetamines are synthetic drugs created in a laboratory.
They are used in psychiatry and are also consumed by athletes, students, armies at wartime and so on. Amphetamines are highly toxic: one pill can be lethal. But habituation to the product is very quick, i.e. to stay effective the dose has to be multiplied tenfold within two to three weeks.
This drug is very dangerous when mixed with alcohol.
Effects of amphetamines
Insomnia
Hyperactivity
Anorexia
Psychoses (suicidal thoughts, paranoia), tactile hallucinations eg. Itchiness of the extremities
High blood pressure, heart attack and so on...
Pulmonary embolism. Amphetamines are suspected of provoking pulmonary hypertension and respiratory depressions, even in therapeutic doses.
Renal failure
As with all laboratory drugs, discontinuation of use must be done with extreme caution. Complete sudden withdrawal can be fatal.
Ritalin
Patented in 1954, methylphenidate is prescribed to treat depression and sleep disorders.
The chemical structure of methylphenidate, Ritalin, is phenylethylamine, which has pharmacological properties similar to those of amphetamines.
Popular name: "kiddy coke".
World consumption in 2011: 52 tons (1.7 billion daily doses).
Production in the U.S.:
1990: 1.8 tons 2011: 41 tonnes
Given to so-called "hyperactive" children.
For 15 years, Ritalin, the obedience pill has been prescribed to millions of American children with disastrous health consequences.
In France, this terrible amphetamine is increasingly prescribed.
Metamphetamines
Methamphetamines have been very common in France for about ten years. It circulates in all "trendy" circles. It is also called speed, ice, crystal and has the same features as ecstasy. In high schools many cannabis users have already tried it. It has always been used at rave parties. It is easy to manufacture and as with ecstasy, France is a very productive country.
HALLUCINOGENIC – PSYCHODISLEPTIC (which affects the mind)
Introduction
LSD is a drug manufactured in a laboratory as an odorless and colorless liquid. It can be turned into a liquid, pills, capsules or blotting paper that melts against gums and damages teeth irrevocably. Images on the blotting paper are designed to appeal to young people (as a marketing strategy), these include Bart Simpson, the Lion King, Dogmatix ... Fashionable computer games can also be printed on them.
Synthetic drugs are very profitable for the manufacturers. They are manufactured close to where they are consumed and generate enormous profit.
Effects of LSD
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"Acid shakes up the consumer's nervous system helping create a psychotic decompensation, which leads to a delirious high. It can also lead some people to mental illness. This decompensation can occur on a first trip or after several years of consumption. A psychotic decompensation can bear serious damages to the mind of a person." Professor Olievenstein |
LSD can cause:
schizophrenic episodes and hallucinations, which can lead to the user committing violent acts, or self-mutilating, throwing himself out of a window or committing suicide.
Tolerance to LSD builds up quickly. To achieve the same effect, the user must increase the dosage frequently (from the French Observatory on Drugs and Drug Addictions).
A trip lasts from 6 to 16 hours. A high number of consumers experience flashbacks which can happen at any time. This is a terrible experience, which leads to further anxiety and hallucinations. It can occur 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 10 years after the initial take.
Bad trip
The person is under the impression that he cannot escape from a nightmare full of demons.
The user may think that he can fly and jump out of a window.
The user assumes the person he is with is a monster and tries to escape by any means; murder or jumping out a window.
"Permanently high"
High school pupils left us testimonies of "permanently high" or "whacked out" friends. One has to know that they talk about youth destroyed by LSD, by ecstasy or other drugs. They are found wandering in psychiatric hospitals for several years with varying names of mental illnesses.
HALLUCINOGENIC - PSYCHODYSLEPTIC (which upsets the mind)
Entry into drug addiction – Trap for teenagers – Vehicle to drug addiction
INTRODUCTION
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GRASS, MARIJUANA (dope, ganja, pot, skunk, weed) |
CANNABIS OIL |
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Dried cannabis resin Sold in 0.1 to 0.2 ounce sticks or sheets or in 8.8 ounce blocks Smoked pure or mixed with tobacco, rolled in cigarette paper. Or taken in a bong or hash pipe |
Dried and chopped cannabis leaves and flowers. Looks like tea leaves Smoked pure in a joint |
Obtained by distilling cannabis leaves or resins. Can contain up to 60% of tetrahydrocannabinol psychoactive substance (THC) |
Two species of cannabis
INDICA CANNABIS: Indian hemp, high in THC. The leaf has 5 petioles. There are more than 100 varieties.
SATIVA CANNABIS: Textile cannabis with a very low concentration of the active ingredient THC–less than 0.3%. With its high content of fibers and its solidity, it is used to make ropes, textiles, industrial items and so on. Due to its low concentration of the THC it is unsuitable for "tripping".
MORE THAN 100 VARIETIES OF CANNABIS
Cannabis also, depending on its variety, contains quite powerful active ingredients, which correspond to different THC levels. With time, the user will have to increase the number of doses or take a higher dosed variety to achieve the initial effects. This is called habituation.
To give an example, let's take alcohol. Wine, beer, whisky, cognac, all contain powerful active properties which correspond to their different contents of alcohol. If one drinks the same amount of each separately, the effect of the alcohol will depend on its level in the beverage.
Today's cannabis varieties contain between 6 to 35 % of THC. This increase has been genetically engineered and illegally cultivated.
Cannabis seeds sold on the internet produce plants with a high content of THC – from 15 to 20% in average. Their specific names identify their effect and their strength, eg. Afghan, crystal, ganja, Mexican, white, skunk, special poison and so on.
We are far from the joints smoked in the Sixties. Then cannabis contained from 0.6 to 6% of THC and was used most of time in joints which were passed around a group.
Nowadays it is fashionable to get "stoned" on weekends and to consume cannabis and alcohol together.
ELIMINATION
Elimination time principle of half-life of a substance
This is the time needed by a body with no prior exposure to a substance to eliminate 50 % of it
Cannabis half-life and releasing
Half-life of cannabis is 96 hours or 4 days. It is stored in body fat for 28 days.
During this period the user will find it difficult to resist taking the drug. The more he takes the drug, the more the stocks are stored in the body fat. The product will be released in case of stress, fear –which accounts for scooter and car accidents – or anger. This is releasing.
The body tries to adapt to unsettling effects provoked by the product and enters quickly into a spiral of dependency and habituation.
CONSEQUENCES OF CANNABIS CONSUMPTION
Generally, there is a change in behavior, attitudes, acquaintances – a change of friends.
In the following list, keep in mind that no one is a match for drugs, the physiology of each person being different. The following signs do not necessarily occur simultaneously.
To stop
6 to 8 months are needed by the regular cannabis user to completely stop consumption. Do not forget that a consumer is under the influence of the product. Thus he does not have the will to resist it.
One has to decrease and then cease consumption one's self. Only abstinence allows a complete discontinuity of use without risk. Antidepressants are no substitutes, they seriously compromise the cessation.
Report by the French Science Academy
"The damaging effects of cannabis on psychic as well as physical health do exist. Cannabis alters memory in affecting the cerebral system, which allows information to filter and interferes in the process of memorizing. Cannabis affects the reproduction system. It weakens the body's immune system. Cannabis causes the user to experience a syndrome characterized by an indifference to life, lack of motivation, loss of interest in all activities, be they scholastic, sportive or cultural. Cannabis leads to using more powerful drugs simply because the body gets used to it".
A few reflexions
"Any strong cannabis addict does not inevitably become a heroin-addict. However we find that 90% of heroin-addicts were initially cannabis users [...] At the same time we witness an impressive increase of criminality amongst youth, in relation to the abuse of so-called mild drugs."
Dr Koopman is a director of "Hope", a rehabilitation center in Holland
"The person who smokes cannabis with a high THC content quickly develops a strong addiction. [...] Joints with high THC levels cause habituation in the consumer requiring higher and higher dosages to achieve his original high. [...]We then witness withdrawal symptoms. [...] In Holland, 70% of cannabis consumed in coffee shops is Nerdereit containing up to 35% of THC. Whereas in 1979, cannabis contained from 0.6 to 6 %."
Professor Ashton, School of Neurological Sciences, University of Newcastle (GB)
A few testimonies
"When you smoke all the time, stopping seems impossible. When you decide to take that first step, it is then that you realize how far you are from your normal self. It feels like you become yourself again. Can you underline yourself? (Silence)...It's really hard to stop."
Clotilde, aged 17, from an artistic background, Nancy, France
"Smoking makes you lose interest in everything. Nothing interests you... nothing. From the morning on you feel dizzy. Then day starts, you smoke a little joint...and it'll be the same again, we won't care about anything and about anyone...You have to tell them that."
Sabrina, aged 18, from an executive background, Toulon, France
Extracts from Et si on parlait du haschich by Marie-Christine d'Welles.
No parent would lend his car to his child knowing he/she has not learnt to drive. It would also be unconscionable to let one’s teenager go out without having taught him/her what drugs are. Nowadays availability of these products is such that youth can procure them in all the places they frequent – educational establishments, parties, class dinners, rallies, sport clubs... Parents must inform themselves objectively and scientifically about the products so to educate their children on drugs and provide them with the arguments to refuse them. Let us remember that drug addiction doesn’t just happen to others!
Any psychotropic drug, be it legal - anxiolytic, tranquillizer, benzodiazepine, neuroleptic - or illegal - street drugs - leads to ill-being, depression and to suicide. See table with side effects of psychotropic drugs – Technical Information/Classification .
Voir le tableau des effets secondaires des drogues psychotropes (Fiches / Classification)
Most drugs are stored in the body fats for years. During an exertion, a walk, sport, fear, surprise, stimulation, a bit of fat is burnt and very small quantities of drugs are released into the blood circulation. This will reactivate the effects of the drugs, making the user feel that they want more.
The half-life of an active substance is the time required by a healthy body, with no previous drug use, to eliminate 50% of the absorbed substance. In the case of cannabis, the half-life is 96 hours or 4 days. This means that within 4 days the body has eliminated 50% of the initial dose. 4 days later, there will be 25% of the product left… Within 28 days, cannabis will be totally eliminated from the body of a person who has not consumed it regularly. Traces of decayed THC may be found in a regular consumer’s body up to 40 days after the last take. According to Dr Chamayou’s thesis, 18 months are needed to be completely cleared of cannabis.
A joint is made out of pure cannabis or grass; or hashish mixed with tobacco.
Alcohol is a general term, which covers a wide variety of products:
wine, cider, beer, port, cognac, whisky, vodka are types of alcohol with various rates of alcoholic content ranging from 5 to 90 ° (active principles)
Cannabis works the same way: but when we talk about a joint of grass or hashish, there are more than 100 varieties and its T.H.C. rate (active principles) –ranges from 4% to 35% - goes unnoted.alcools aux taux variés de 5 à 90 degrés ( principes actifs)
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