Asian Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Science
  • Year: 2022
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 3

Detection of Ganja and Nicotine Admixture by a New System

  • Author:
  • Kamalakshi Krishnamurthy1, Thant Zin2, K. Priyamvatha3, Mahadeva U.S. Rao2,*, M. Suganya4
  • Published Online: Mar 9, 2022

1Additional Director & Director (i/c)-Retired, Forensic Sciences Department, Mylapore, Chennai, India

2School of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

3Former Student of Women’s Christian College, Chennai, India

4People’s College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: raousm@gmail.com, raousm@unisza.edu.my

Online Published on 9 March, 2023.

Abstract

Drug abuse has become more prevalent in India. Smokers mix Ganja (marijuana) along with tobacco in the cigarettes or cigars. Necessity has arisen at this juncture to separately locate Ganja in the admixture of Tobacco and Ganja. The present work envisages a new developing as well as identification method for separating Ganja from Tobacco by Thin Layer chromatography simultaneously in the same plate.

Keywords

Marijuana, Tobacco, Drug abuse, Cigarettes