PART III - FACTS AND VOCABULARY

Facts

1         Nicotine paralyzes or convulses the muscles of pets that ingest them.

2         The author feels himself paranoid and stupid after try marijuana.

3         Marijuana is the primary focus of drug prevention efforts in the school

4         President Reagan deployed troops to rout out marijuana growers in northern California.

5         Marijuana growers created a powerful new plant.

6         Cannabis was one of the earliest plants to be domesticated

7         Marijuana is not precisely legal in Holland.

8         Marijuana can sell in coffee store in Holland.

9         John Morgan a pharmacologist who has written widely about marijuana.

10     The THC in cannabis is only mimicking the actions of the brain’s own cannabinoids.

11     THC could be to protect cannabis plant from ultraviolet radiation.

12     THC gives the cannabis plant a sophisticated defense against pests.

13     THC exhibits antibiotic properties suggesting a role in protecting cannabis from disease.

14     More than ten thousands years ago cannabis been domesticated.

15     Raphael Mechoulam is an Israeli neuroscientist.

Vocabulary

1-      Temptation: a strong desire to have or do something even though you know you should not.

2-      Convulse: if your body or a part of it convulses, it moves violently and you are not able to control it.

3-      Compound: a combination of two or more parts, substances, or qualities.

4-      Consciousness: all the ideas and opinion held by a person or a group of people about a particular subject.

5-      Enchantment: the quality of being very pleasant or attractive.

6-      Paranoid: full of unreasonable distrust of other people.

7-      Flattering: clothes, pictures etc. that are flattering make someone look as attractive as they can or make something as good as possible, even if it is not really very good.

8-      Circumscribe: to limit power, rights, or abilities.

9-      Rouse: to wake up, or to wake someone up.

10-   Psychoactive: adj. psychoactive drugs have an effect on your mind.

11-   Smuggler: someone who takes something illegally from one country to another.

12-   Irresistible: to powerful or pleasant to leave or fight against.

13-   Opium: a powerful illegal drug made from poppy seeds.

14-   Reconnaissance: the sending out of soldiers to get information about the enemy.

15-   Prompt: to make someone decide to do something.