Book contents
- Marijuana on My Mind
- Reviews
- Marijuana on My Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Additional material
- Foreword
- 1 The Science and Mystique of Cannabis
- 2 The Plant, Its History, and Its Products
- 3 The Brain and Its Natural Cannabinoid Chemistry
- 4 The Plant’s Impact on the Brain and Experience
- 5 Putting Cannabis in Perspective
- 6 Cannabis Culture and Spirituality
- 7 Medical Cannabis, Part I: Cannabinoids with Strong Scientific Evidence
- 8 Medical Cannabis, Part II: Cannabinoids with Preliminary Scientific Evidence
- 9 Medical Cannabis, Part III: CBD Facts, Fads, and Possibilities
- 10 When Cannabinoid Receptors Disappear
- 11 When Addiction Hijacks the Brain’s Reward System
- 12 Adolescents and Cannabis
- 13 Further Consequences of Using Cannabis Too Frequently
- 14 Treatment and Recovery
- 15 Public Health and Politics
- Epilogue: The Future of Cannabis
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Figure Sources
- Index
10 - When Cannabinoid Receptors Disappear
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2022
- Marijuana on My Mind
- Reviews
- Marijuana on My Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Additional material
- Foreword
- 1 The Science and Mystique of Cannabis
- 2 The Plant, Its History, and Its Products
- 3 The Brain and Its Natural Cannabinoid Chemistry
- 4 The Plant’s Impact on the Brain and Experience
- 5 Putting Cannabis in Perspective
- 6 Cannabis Culture and Spirituality
- 7 Medical Cannabis, Part I: Cannabinoids with Strong Scientific Evidence
- 8 Medical Cannabis, Part II: Cannabinoids with Preliminary Scientific Evidence
- 9 Medical Cannabis, Part III: CBD Facts, Fads, and Possibilities
- 10 When Cannabinoid Receptors Disappear
- 11 When Addiction Hijacks the Brain’s Reward System
- 12 Adolescents and Cannabis
- 13 Further Consequences of Using Cannabis Too Frequently
- 14 Treatment and Recovery
- 15 Public Health and Politics
- Epilogue: The Future of Cannabis
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Figure Sources
- Index
Summary
Randy was a middle-aged businessman who maintained a charming, although too often irresponsible, adolescent quality. His life had never reached its potential and his marriage was threatened. An intermittently regular cannabis user since college, he told me about recently scoring some wildly good marijuana. This was the mid-1990s, when new varieties of powerful sinsemilla cannabis flower were becoming available in San Francisco. After smoking it every day for a couple of weeks, he exhausted his supply and was unable to find any more.
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- Marijuana on My MindThe Science and Mystique of Cannabis, pp. 157 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022