Psychoactive drug refers to a drug from some plants, which alters an individual’s perceptions of mind by producing hallucination.
One of the examples is cannabis or marijuana, the botanical name being Cannabis sativa. Marijuana is native of China and now it is legally cultivated in the states of Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh of India as industrial hemp. The active principle, which possesses medicinal properties is trans- tetrahydro cannabinol (THC).
