A team of students are preparing to participate in the interschool sports meet. During a practice session you find some vials with labels of certain cannabinoids.
(i) Will you report to the authorities? Why?
(ii) Name a plant from which such chemicals are obtained.
(iii) Write the effect of these chemicals on human body.
(i) Yes, I will report it to the authorities because cannabinoids ate classified as drugs and taking them without medical supervision is illegal.
(ii) Cannabinoids are obtained from various parts of plant Cannabis sativa.
(iii) The cannabinoids interact with canabinoid receptors
in the brain and affect the cardiovascular system of the body.