Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine

March 1, 2014Byens Lys Copenhagen
Cannabis robins choice
Doors open: 19:00
Start programme: 20:00
Byens Lys
Fabriksområdet 99
Copenhagen

Do different types of cannabis have different psychological effects? Is it healthy or unhealthy to consume cannabis? Why do brains have cannabis receptors? Why might the cannabis plant contain a treasure chest of important medicines?

Cannabis has been used throughout history for its medicinal as well as pleasurable effects. The man smokes the weed, the man is happy. It contains about 100 completely unique ingredients that are called ‘cannabinoids’ and levels of these vary widely in different types of cannabis.

Valerie Curran, from University College London, European expert in research in cannabis, will brings the newest scientific facts on how this variation influences the psychological effects of the drug and why some individuals are vulnerable to experiencing mental health problems. She will explain what is the importance of our brains’ own natural cannabis system.

Briefly, she will ask what implications our increasing scientific understanding of cannabis has for current debates about medicalisation and legalisation.

Later, a brand new menu of fine crafted cocktails is presented by our house mixologists. The stage will be taken by Tromleorkestret, a music machine which has a mechanical xylophone and drums, a build-in Cello, microphones in horns and ancient telephones, a very special percussion instrument based on amplified springs and time-synched flamethrowers.

Tromleorkestret gives way to one of Denmark’s most creative electronic musicians, Karsten Pflum, who pushes the frontiers of heavy bass driven dubstep, frantic jungle and breakcore, combining extreme ambiences with hard complex rhythm programming and treatment.

Talk by

Valerie Curran

Professor of Psychopharmacology at University College London at the department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences. Her research interests include using psychotropic drugs as probes to explore and thereby enhance our understanding of the neurotransmitter basis of cognitive and emotional processing as well as differentiating the actions of different cannabinoids on schizotypal symptoms, cognition and addiction-related processes.

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Cannabis

Valerie Curran

Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine

Do different types of cannabis have different psychological effects? Is it healthy or unhealthy to consume cannabis? Why do brains have cannabis receptors? Why might the cannabis plant contain a treasure chest of important medicines?

Music by

Tromleorkestret

Tromleorkestret plays psychedelic barrel-organ music on a self-constructed mechanical, high tech barrel-organ. The sound from the machine is manipulated wirelessly by a pair of sound-magic-trick-gloves. The machine is controlled by Hjalte Bested Møller and Sofie Hjorth.

Tromleorkestret

Music by

Karsten Pflum

With five full length releases and a bunch of EPs in his bag, Karsten Pflum pays a tribute to the glorious times of IDM, without losing the focus on the future of the genre. Pflum explores the boundaries of heavy bass driven dubstep, frantic jungle and breakcore, combining extreme ambiences with hard complex rhythm programming and treatment. His live shows have been rocking around Europe for a good number of years, and his tunes have been played on a diverse number of radio programs.

Karsten Pflum