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What is Cannabis? Help and Info
Cannabis is the short name for the plant Cannabis If you’d like to speak to someone, local treatment
Sativa, which has been grown by humans for services will be able to provide support for you and
centuries and is one of the oldest known drugs. It is your family, and can answer questions you may
also known as marijuana, weed, dope, grass, pot, have about cannabis, withdrawal, and recovery.
skunk, ganga, hash, mull, and many other names.
• Parents, Elders and trusted friends
The two main active ingredients in cannabis are: • GPs and Pharmacists
• THC (Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol), causing
the ‘high’ feelings, and; • Local Alcohol and Other Drug Services
• CBD (Cannabidiol), causing the ‘comfy’ adin.com.au/help-support
feelings. or look under A in the phone book
Sometimes the plants are grown with more of one • Family Drug Support a 24/7 service
chemical than the other in order to get the desired fds.org.au or 1300 368 186
effects. • Fire, Ambulance, Police 000
The cannabis plant has • Lifeline Australia 13 11 14
palm-shaped leaves with 3 to • Kid’s Helpline 1800 55 1800
11 leaflets (fingers), which are • Poisons Information Centre 13 11 26
jagged on the edges. When • www.everybodys.business
purchased, cannabis usually
looks like dry plant matter in • tuneinnotout.com - youth website
colours ranging from light • Medicines Line 1300 MEDICINE
green to brown. • Get the effects by txt! 0439 TELL ME
Simply text the name of the drug you want to know about
Cannabis may also be used medicinally. Research
is currently underway in Australia for the use of
cannabis as a treatment for epilepsy in children and
nausea control for patients with HIV or cancer. Check out more brochures in this series.
Cannabis (marijuana, weed, pot) is the
most commonly used illegal drug in
Australia.
Cannabis is a psychedelic drug, meaning
‘Hemp’ it can change the way you perceive
may be referred These plus more are available at aldaf.org.au reality for a short time.
to as cannabis.
Hemp does not In an emergency call 000
have an effect 000
on humans and has
many industrial uses.
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