26 June 2008 - 2:12Drugs (narcotics)

Drugs (narcotics), 1. Strong preparations of deafening and anaesthetising action (, cocaine, an aether, chloroform, nitrogen, , etc.). Are applied at surgical operations and in therapy of sharp states. The frequent use of the same narcotic invokes habituation (tolerance see) and can lead to a narcotism. Now this term is considered become outdated; narcotics name «» or “anaesthesia” is more often.

2. The intoxicating materials forbidden for not medical use. According to definition of the world Organization of Public health services, the drug considers any material corresponding three to criteria: medical (it has specific an effect on the central excitatory system, leading to its not medical use), social (this not medical use gets social value) and legal (the special instance recognised as its narcotic and has included in the conforming list).

According to lists I and IV «the Uniform Convention on narcotics» (the United Nations see) «cannabis, pitch of cannabis and extracts (the oil extract, the Dairy extract see) and cannabis tinctures” are drugs and should fall under action of all articles of national antinarcotic laws. Nevertheless, in legal practice of many countries of Europe psy_hemp psychotropic preparations of a hemp concern bunch «Easy drugs”, sanctions on which are much softer, rather than on so-called to “Heavy drugs”.