From: [p--r--n] at [gsb013.cs.ualberta.ca] (Peter Jordan)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs.chemistry,rec.drugs.cannabis,sci.chem
Subject: CANNABIS INDICA (circa 1906)
Date: 17 Sep 1995 23:28:18 GMT


Note: CAPS in braces are my comments.

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CANNABIS INDICA.  Indian hemp when distiled with steam yields an essential oil
C15H24 (257 degrees); [ THIS OIL IS TERPENACIOUS AND DOES NOT CONTAIN CANNABINOIDS ]
V.D. 7.1; S.G. [FUNNY CHARACTER -- AN EIGHT WITH A HORIZONTAL BAR THROUGH IT]
.93; [ALPHA]d= -10.81 AT 25.5 degrees (in chloroform).  The oil resinifies on
exposure (Valenta, G. 10, 479; 11, 196; cf. Martius, C. C. 1856, 225; Personne,
J. Ph. [3] 31, 46).  HNO3 (S.G. 1.32 to 1.42) acting on the resinous extract of
Indian hemp forms 'oxycannabene' C20H20N2O7 (Bolas a. Francis, C. J. 22, 417;
C. N. 24, 77).  this seperates from methylated spirit in flat yellow prisms [176 deg.],
insol. water, sl.sol. alcohol.  Indian hemp, and its alcoholic extract, contain
a poisonous resin (T. a. H. Smith, Ph. 6, 127, 171; Martius).  Hay (Ph. [3] 13, 998)
has extracted a crystalline alkaloid `tetano-cannabine'  which produces tetanus
in frogs.  The fixed oil from hemp-seed (_Cannabis sativa_) is probably a fatty oil,
though Lefort (C. R. 35, 734) gives it the formula C11H22O2 and describes C11H20Cl2O2
and C11H20Br2O2 as products of substitution.

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SOURCE:
Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry, 1905, Vol. I, pg 676.
Longmans, Green, and Co.


Peter Jordan
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