Narcotic

The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word narkoticos, meaning "benumbing or deadening", originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). In the U.S. legal context, narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semisynthetic or totally synthetic substitutes. Cocaine and coca leaves, which are classified as "narcotics" in the U.S. Controlled Substances Act (CSA), are technically not narcotics.

External links

• Geopium: Geopolitics of Illicit Drugs in Asia
• Pharmer.org A non-profit site providing detailed descriptions of most narcotic analgesics.
• Photos of cannabis cultivation in Morocco (Rif) on www.geopium.org