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What is Cannabis ? List its main derivatives.

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Cannabis is the plant that produces the drug Cannabinoids that act with receptors of brain. Three kinds of drugs are obtained from these plants

(1) Hashish or Charas is obtained from flowering tops of female plants.

(2) Bhang is obtained from dry leaves.

(3) Ganja is obtained from small leaves and bracts of inflorescence.

Marijuana is another drug obtained from Cannabis sativa. The common effects of these drugs is feeling of euphoria, hallucinations, rise in blood sugar level and energy.

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