The addiction to drugs has become a favored legal defense in CNMI courts, and those around the nation, of late. Let\u203as get familiar with some known terms that have natural psychoactive ingredients.<\/p>\n
Ayahuasca brew (popular in Peru)<\/p>\n
Betel nut Areca catechu (Carolinian friends chew)<\/p>\n
Cannabis (the MJ of our familiar)<\/p>\n
Coca (Georgia\u2019s Cola used to use)<\/p>\n
Datura (the poisonous moonflowers)<\/p>\n
Ephedra (Chinese traditional medicine\u2019s ma huang, aka \u201cMormon\u201d and \u201cIndian\u201d tea)<\/p>\n
Kava (the intoxicating pepper of Polynesia)<\/p>\n
Khat (an amphetamine like chewed stimulant in the Middle East)<\/p>\n
Mescaline (natural hallucinogenic similar to LSD effect en Mejico)<\/p>\n
Morning glory (with hallucinogenic properties, kin to the kangkong)<\/p>\n
Nutmeg (and you wondered why the Moluccas was so popular to Europe)<\/p>\n
Peyote (psychoactive alkaloid cacti)<\/p>\n
Valerian (a garden herb plant)<\/p>\n
Yohimbine (a veterinary tree often used to deal with erectile dysfunction)<\/p>\n
Even of frogs, fishes, and mushrooms:<\/p>\n
Psychoactive toad (psychedelic frogs do not turn into princes)<\/p>\n
Hallucinogenic fish (herbivorous ones known in Hawaii may be in Saipan reefs)<\/p>\n
Amanita (SE Asian mushroom variety is used for food coloring)<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone, the lab versions abound as well.\u00a0 The countertop variety, prescribed or OTC\u2019d if you have a pharmacist\u2019s friend, are:<\/p>\n
Amphetamine (stimulant known among ADHDs, also used as a performance stimulant; Benzedrine inhalers, anyone?)<\/p>\n
Methamphetamine (the powder that even cops gets busted for)<\/p>\n
Body metabolism has drastically changed as the world is overwhelmed by reliance on pharmacological remedies. The reflex to reach for the pill has become universal and the statistics on effects and deviant behaviors have shot up as well.<\/p>\n
Natural stimulants have always been a part of traditional remedies and have occasioned binding social relations around bonfires, picnic tables and living room mats.\u00a0Those who abuse their use have reasons other than disrespect for the law.\u00a0We need to treat those as such.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Psychedelic or hallucinogenic, psychoactive or just ordinary stimulant, are available and are everyone\u2019s choice.\u00a0There lies the rub, a choice.\u00a0Do we protect citizens from the choices they can make?\u00a0Nah!\u00a0 BTW, not\u00a0to\u00a0touch the stuff is a choice.\u00a0Choose well! \u00a9 2015, Saipan Tribune<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The addiction to drugs has become a favored legal defense in CNMI courts, and those…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5424,5425,190,5426],"class_list":["post-204260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-coca-georgia","tag-ephedra-chinese","tag-natural","tag-otc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}