cannabin one

(kan-ab’in-én). A poisonous alka- loidal resin from hemp: used as a hypnotic. Dose, 1-4 BT. (0.064-0.26 gm.). Cannabis (kan’ab-is) (L.; Gr. cdvva Bis). Hemp; a genus of urticaceous plants. C. ind’ica, a variety of common hemp preferred for medicinal uses. C. sati’va, the species which produces the ordinary hemp. The flowering tops contain a resin (cannabin) and a volatile oil, and are narcotic, anodyne, and antispasmodic in large doses, producing intoxication with mental exaltation. It is used in chronic spasmodic affections. such as asthma, whooping-cough, paralysis agitans, migraine, etc. Dose of extract, 4-4 gr. (0.01-0.033 gm.); of fluidextract, 1-5 min. (0.065- 0.3 C.c.); of tincture, 20 min.-1 fl.dr. (1.25-4 c.c.). hemp. eannabism (kan’ab-izm). duced by misuse of cannabis.