Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bhang
Mildly intoxicating preparation of leaves and flowering tops of cannabis made in India. A drink made from milk or water and marijuana. It is drunk in India for its mild hallucinogenic effects, to combat fatigue, or in relation to Hindu religious ceremonies.
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Beat generation
Literary movement in 1950s that rejected standard narrative values and materialism.
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Anslinger, Harry J
As first commissioner of the US Treasury Department’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, from 1930 to 1962, he was largely responsible for cannabis prohibition in the United States. Anslinger was a government civil servant from 1918 to 1963 and served under nine presidents.
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2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG):
Endogenous ligand of cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2; acts much like CBD.
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Xeropthalmia
A disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin A and characterized by a thickening and inflammation of the outer layers of the eye and impaired eyesight.
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Ozone
A highly reactive modification of oxygen whereby the two oxygen atoms in oxygen (02) are increased to three (03). A form of oxygen consisting of molecules of three oxygen atoms (03), as compared with atmospheric oxygen with two oxygen atoms (CL). Toxic gas containing three atoms of oxygen per molecule (not the usual two) found…
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Macronutrients
The nutrients required in relatively large amounts in the body: protein, carbohydrate, fat, and water. Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. Their chief function is to provide the body with the energy necessary to carry on all of the activities of life, micronutrients. A substance which an organism needs in large amounts for normal growth and development,…
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Chelate
To combine a metal with another compound. To treat someone with a chelating agent in order to remove a heavy metal such as lead from the bloodstream. A combination of metal ions chemically held within a ring of heterocyclic structures by bonds from each of these structures to the metal. Iron is held by heme…
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Winged stem
A stem with one or more broad flanges along its length.
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Whorled leaves
Three or more leaves arising from a stem at the same level or point on it.
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