Cannabis/Summary

Main article: Cannabis

Psychoactive class: Unknown

Chemical class: Cannabinoid

Oral

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  1	-	2.5	-	5	-	10	-	25	mg (THC)
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 4 - 10 hours
  • Onset: 20 - 120 minutes
  • Peak: 2 - 5 hours
  • Afterglow: 6 - 12 hours

Smoked

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  25	-	33	-	66	-	100	-	150	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 1 - 4 hours
  • Onset: 0 - 10 minutes
  • Peak: 15 - 30 minutes
  • Afterglow: 45 - 180 minutes

Harm potential

• • Moderately habit-forming
  • Extremely low toxicity

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached develops with prolonged and repeated use
  • Decreases to half after 1 - 2 weeks
  • Returns to baseline after 2 - 3 weeks

Physical effects

• • Perception of bodily lightness
• • Appetite enhancement
• • Appetite suppression
  • Motor control loss
  • Nausea suppression
  • Pain relief
  • Sedation
  • Seizure suppression
• • Bodily pressures
  • Decreased blood pressure
  • Dehydration
  • Dry mouth
  • Increased heart rate
  • Increased perspiration
  • Muscle twitching
  • Nausea
  • Vasodilation

Visual effects

• • Colour enhancement
• • Brightness alteration
  • Tracers
• • Acuity suppression
  • Peripheral information misinterpretation
• • Geometry
• • Internal hallucination

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Time distortion
• • Analysis enhancement
  • Anxiety
  • Creativity enhancement
  • Emotion enhancement
  • Focus enhancement
  • Immersion enhancement
  • Increased libido
  • Increased music appreciation
  • Increased sense of humor
  • Novelty enhancement
  • Personal meaning enhancement
  • Suggestibility enhancement
  • Thought connectivity
• • Analysis suppression
  • Anxiety suppression
  • Decreased libido
  • Dream suppression
  • Focus suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Sleepiness
  • Thought deceleration

Auditory effects

• • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory enhancement

Multi-sensory

• • Psychosis
  • Synaesthesia

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index