(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.
Tac
Definition:
(n.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 6 cases of T cell lymphoma, 5 cases were positive for T3+ and Tac+ each; 4 for T11+ and 2 for T6+ while all were positive for T4 and negative or weakly positive for T8A.
(2) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(3) The response of Tac rosette positive cells to recombinant IL-2 was always higher than that of the Tac rosette negative or unselected cells, indicating that this rosette method specifically selects T cells expressing IL-2 receptor.
(4) The role of interleukin 2 (IL-2) in the activation of suppressor T cells was investigated by using the monoclonal antibody anti-Tac, which blocks the binding of IL-2 to the 55-kDa peptide of the high-affinity IL-2 receptor.
(5) The IL 2 receptor on T4+ T-CLL cells was indistinguishable from that on normal activated T cells with respect to molecular weight and downregulation by the anti-Tac antibody.
(6) The capacity for T cell proliferation and the expression of Tac antigen (IL-2 receptor) was assessed during the post-burn period in patients with injuries ranging from 5-68% total body surface area.
(7) Comparison with the respective wild-type nucleotide sequence shows only one nucleotide change, G----A, causing a replacement of cysteine-58 (TGC) with tyrosine (TAC) in the E3 protein of ts1.
(8) A procedure is described for the phagocytic labeling of white blood cells (WBC) with high specific activity 99mTc--albumin colloid (TAC).
(9) Both the neuA and neuC genes are coexpressed under the control of a single upstream T7 or tac promoter, suggesting that neuA and neuC are part of an operon.
(10) The addition of anti-Tac during a preculture period inhibited the generation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced suppressor T cells and of suppressor T cells induced in an antigen-specific system by a high antigen (sheep red blood cell) concentration.
(11) In contrast to wild-type IL-2R alpha, shedding of mutant Tac protein is strongly reduced.
(12) The complete transcriptional unit, incorporating the tac promoter and rrnB transcription terminators flanking the Pf1 coat protein gene, was excised from the expression plasmid and cloned into the intergenic space of bacteriophage R252, an fd bacteriophage that carries an amber mutation in its own major coat protein gene.
(13) The time course of expression of other known activation antigens, such as Tac and transferrin receptor, was comparable to that of CK226.
(14) In previous work, our laboratory has molecularly cloned the cDNA coding for the bovine IL-2 and IL-2R (p55, Tac) proteins.
(15) The degree of inhibition of protein synthesis, however, was not closely correlated with expression of CD25 antigen (low-affinity Mr 55,000 glycoprotein, IL-2R, Tac antigen) on ATL cells.
(16) Unlike other reported cases of Thp-CLL, fresh leukemic cells from this patient were positive with the anti-Tac monoclonal antibody, which recognizes the receptor for interleukin-2 (IL-2).
(17) SF CD4+ cells from RA and non-RA arthritides expressed the Tac antigen much more frequently than corresponding CD8+ cells (54 and 58% versus 16 and 17%).
(18) A Tn5tac1 insertion just inside the 3' end of cysQ, with its isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside-inducible tac promoter pointed toward the cysQ promoter, resulted in auxotrophy only when isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside was present; this conditional phenotype was ascribed to collision between converging RNA polymerases or interaction between complementary antisense and cysQ mRNAs.
(19) In addition, a monoclonal antibody (moAb) against the IL2 receptor (IL2-R; anti-Tac) inhibited the spontaneous colony formation from T-CFC of both groups of patients.
(20) The artificial secretory molecule of the IL-2 receptor named "bottom-less" receptor was able to react with anti-Tac antibody and to bind IL-2.