Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine (Valerie Curran - 8 Dec 2015)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2015年12月22日
Speaker: Professor Valerie Curran, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit
Cannabis has been used throughout history for medicinal as well as pleasurable effects. Its 100 unique ingredients vary widely in different types of cannabis, posing a range of questions in terms of medicalisation and legalisation. This lecture will look at its effects, but also its potential.