Review Article
Pharmacology of Marijuana
Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt1* and Norman S Miller2
1Central Michigan University, Houghton Avenue, USA
2CEO of Health Advocates PLLC, East Lansing, MI, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of George, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
- *Corresponding Author:
- Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt
Resident, Central Michigan University
Houghton Avenue, USA
E-mail: Thersilla.oberbarnscheidt@cmich.edu
Received date: November 21, 2016; Accepted date: December 02, 2016; Published date: December 09, 2016
Citation: Oberbarnscheidt T, Miller NS (2016) Pharmacology of Marijuana. J Addict Res Ther S11:012. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000S11-012
Copyright: © 2016 Oberbarnscheidt T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The following review of literature regarding the pharmacology of marijuana is intended to demonstrate its mental and physical pharmacological effects. "Marijuana" refers specifically to the dried leaves and flowering tops or "herbal cannabis”, the natural form of cannabis as derived from the plant Cannabis sativa. Another term for marijuana is the word cannabis or hemp.
