According to NSDUH this is the amount of marijuana users in a study conducted in 2011.
What is 18.1 million users aged 12 or older?
100
Typical routes of administration for marijuana.
What is inhalation, and oral?
100
CB1 receptors are found in these areas.
What are basal ganglia, cortex, cerebellum, and hippocampus?
100
These are the stages of behavioral effects on marijuana.
What is buzz, high, stoned, come down?
100
Anandamide and 2-AG are synthesized and released when this Ion enters.
What is Ca2+?
200
The drug schedule given to marijuana.
What is Schedule I? (The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.)
200
This is the reason why drug tests are effective weeks after exposure to marijuana.
What is the fact that THC and its metabolites persist in fat in the body?
200
CB1 receptors are expressed in areas important for these things.
What are motor coordination, pain, nausea and memory?
200
Endocannabinoids are derived from this substance.
What is arachidonic acid (a fatty acid found in membranes).
200
The mechanism of action for endocannabinoids.
What is the release of anandamide and 2-AG postsynaptically, which inhibits presynaptic release?
300
The plant that marijuana comes from.
What is hemp?
300
Marijuana activates this pathway promoting release of a NT in the Nucleus Accumbens?
What is the mesolimbic pathway (promoting the release of DA)?
300
CB1 receptors are located in this area and have this effect.
What is a presynaptic-metabotropic location and an inhibitory mechanism (generally reduce release of NT)?
300
What are the two endocannabinoids YOU need to remember?
What anandamide, and 2-AG?
300
Cannabinoids activate these pathways.
What are the Mesocortical and Mesolimbic pathways?
400
The chemicals found in marijuana are called this.
What is cannabinoids?
400
This is the animal that was reported to self-administer THC.
What is the squirrel monkey?
400
CB2 receptors are largely found in this area of the body.
What is the periphery (skin and immune system).
400
Anandamide and 2-AG are this type of NT and so cannot be stored in vesicles.
What is a lipid?
400
These are some of the therapeutic effects of marijuana.
What are suppression of behavioral responses to persistent noxious stimulation, appetite stimulation, and nausea relief.
500
Of the 60 distinct types, these are the primary psychoactive ingredients of marijuana.
What is delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol , Cannabinol, and Cannabidiol?
500
The site of action for cannabinoids.
What are Cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2)?
500
Neurotransmitters in the body that are similar to cannabinoids are called this.
What is endocannabinoids?
500
The slowest administration of marijuana.
What is oral?
500
These are some of the impairments associated with marijuana.
What are, documented deficits in verbal and spatial memory, reduced cognitive performance, differential effects on socialization, and paired with alcohol it can critically impair the ability to drive.