(n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
(2) In Norway, the use of cannabis was introduced by a resourceful group of oppositional middle-class adolescents in the late 1960s.
(3) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
(4) The effects were assessed of delta'THC (the psychoactive component of cannabis) and CBD and DMHP-CBD (the non-psychomimetic components of marijuana derivatives) on 14C labelled serotonin release from normal platelets, when incubated with patient's plasma obtained during migraine attack.
(5) Say Why To Drugs – the highs and lows of cannabis Read more One option the scientists propose is to boost levels of CBD in high potency cannabis, so that users can get their hit without being at such risk of mental harm.
(6) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
(7) The popular concept of "marihuana" is actually based on the chemical characteristics of the plant Cannabis, rather than on the taxonomic classification.
(8) The Police Foundation report said that the penalties for possession of cannabis - among the harshest in Europe - do more damage than the drug itself and called for a reclassification of drug offences.
(9) Professor David Nutt, director of the neuropsychopharmacology unit at Imperial College, London, and former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs , said the report provided strong evidence "that the costs of the current punitive approaches to cannabis control are massively disproportionate to the harms of the drug, and shows that more sensible approaches would provide significant financial benefits to the UK as well as reducing social exclusion and injustice".
(10) The report claims 30,000 people in the UK use cannabis as a medicine, but adds that the figure could be as high as 1 million, according to the campaign group End Our Pain .
(11) Uruguay is trying to bring the cannabis market under state control by undercutting and outlawing the traffickers.
(12) The move has been interpreted as a shift towards the effective decriminalisation of cannabis.
(13) After fronting a piece on a medical marijuana club , she told viewers : “I – the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club – will be dedicating all of my energy for fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalising marijuana here in Alaska.
(14) THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the main psychoactive ingredient of the cannabis plant.
(15) There is a growing body of research that shows the medical properties of chemical components of cannabis.
(16) They cause an effect similar in some ways to cannabis – but are many times more potent, and the effects are hugely unpredictable.
(17) The reports regarding cannabis dependence among cocaine dependents are few and inconclusive.
(18) Breathes has been smoking cannabis for more than half his life, but he has no nostalgia for the old days, no regrets about the industry becoming commercialised.
(19) Last week the local paper carried stories about a former teacher charged with running a prostitution ring and a house exposed as a major cannabis farm.
(20) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.
Dispensary
Definition:
(n.) A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
(n.) A dispensatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Participation of the population in survey I was 41.7% and was greatest (62%) in the locality where there was a newly established dispensary.
(2) It is emphasized that patients after ophthalmic herpes should be kept under dispensary observation.
(3) It shows that while accessibility in the study area improved between 1979 and 1982 through the establishment of more dispensaries and maternity and child-welfare centres, the relative efficiency of locations has remained low.
(4) The mode of administration of chemotherapy is evaluated, in conditions of integration, and under strict supervision, in tuberculosis patients in 12 medical dispensaries and in 6 enterprise dispensaries from Craiova over a period of one year.
(5) The authors compare the respective therapeutic efficiency of chloroquine and amodiaquine in the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria fever in urban dispensaries.
(6) This action is followed by an active dispensary care and by lessons of health education, aimed at preventing metabolic decompensations and the early occurrence of degenerative chronic complications.
(7) Tuberculosis infection level in children living together with subjects of groups I, II, Va, Vb and VII dispensary record and tuberculin sensitivity in adults were determined.
(8) The dispensary's owners, Ean Seeb, 37, and Kayvan Khalatbari, 29, are two smokers not apparently devoid of ambition.
(9) The analysis of the results obtained has shown that normalization of intraocular pressure within the first year of dispensary treatment was achieved in 260 (55.4%) patients; surgical treatment was used in 144 (30.7%) patients.
(10) Twelve women of gynecologic dispensary of Hospital del Salvador are studied, making measurements of several ultrasound parameters of urinary bladder (diameters and perimeters), with known volumes instilled through catheterization.
(11) The number of dispensaries in Denver has actually fallen since 2010, when tougher regulation came in.
(12) Such patients should be under dispensary observation of a children's surgeon.
(13) One dispensary is intended to serve several villages together.
(14) The paper discusses the development of oncological service in Ulyanovsk region since 1946 when a 35-bedded dispensary was opened.
(15) The results substantiate the need for setting up inter-district specialized oncologic dispensary-affiliated centres providing adequate diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer.
(16) The necessity of dispensary follow-up of young patients with obesity has been considered.
(17) At the background of the organized treatment and prophylactic measures progress in the disease was observed only in 4.7 per cent (14 persons) of the patients included into the dispensary group.
(18) Infection seemed to have been transmitted within a room by hands of nursing staff with spread into other rooms through the dispensary.
(19) Children with the aggravated heredity to diabetes should be placed under dispensary observation.
(20) From the viewpoint of the forms of disease radiophotographic detection brings to the dispensary two-thirds of the oligo- and asymptomatic cases.