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What are psychoactive drugs? Add a note Marijuana and Opium.

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Psychoactive drug refers to a drug from some plants, which alter an individual.s perceptions of mind buy producing hallucination.
One of the example is cannabis or marijuana, the botanical name being Cannabis sativa. Marijuana is native of China and now it is legally cultivated in the states of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh of India as industrial hemp. The active principle, which possess medicinal properties is trans-tetrahydro canabinal (THC).
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