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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
Consumer protection law designed to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products that included cannabis on a list of dangerous and/or addictive drugs.
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Phytocannabinoids
Cannabinoids that occur naturally in the cannabis plant.
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Mechoulam, Raphael
Israeli organic chemist who isolated and identified THC, anandamide, and 2-AG, among other breakthroughs.
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Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
US act that required every person who sold, dealt, or dispensed cannabis to register with the Internal Revenue Service and pay a special occupational tax, with enforcement provisions for violations of fines of up to $2,000 and five years in prison.
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Majoun
Moroccan confection made from hashish with any combination of honey, nuts, spices, and dried fruits, sometimes with other drugs such as opium or henbane, that can resemble a candy, paste, or jam.
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Kief
Concentrated resin glands that have been separated from the plant using dry, solvent-free methods. Arabic for marijuana in dried resin form, kif.
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Hydrosol
“Flower water” produced by distilling fresh cannabis leaves, flowers, and other plant material. The fluid state of a colloidal solution (sol) in which the colloid particles, separated by water in a continuous phase, are free to move about.
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Hippies
A subculture in the 1960s and early 1970s that rejected conventional values and took hallucinogenic drugs.
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Hemp
Nonpsychoactive cannabis subspecies used primarily for food, fiber, and high-CBD medicine.
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Hassan-ibn-Sabbah
Founder of the Hashshashin, a group of assassins, in the eleventh century in northern Persia.
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