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Many secondary metabolites of plants have medicinal properties. It is their misuse that creates problems. Justify the statement with an example.

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Solution

Several plants, fruits and seeds having hallucinogenic properties.

$\Rightarrow$ They have been used for hundreds of years in folk-medicine, religious ceremonies and rituals all over the globe.

When these are taken for a purpose other than medicinal use or in amounts/frequency that impairs one's physical, physiological or psychological functions, it constitutes drug abuse.

E.g Morphine is secondary metabolite obtained from papaver somniferum. acetylation of it produces Heroin.

Standard 12
Biology

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