The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamamda Ngozi Adi
Week 3- Legal Status Factors-Drug and Society
Q Discuss some of the more important "objective" or essentialistic factors that are related to whether or not a given psychoactive substances becomes illegal in a given society.
Psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance can be explained as a chemical substance that directly impacts the central nervous system which alters the overall functioning of the brain and also results in some temporary changes within the perception, consciousness and the behavior of a person. There have been many recent efforts by most of the countries like Uk, Netherlands, USA, in describing the harmful effects that are caused by psychoactive substances.