Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology
This book highlights current Cannabis research: its botany, authentication, biotechnology, in vitro propagation, chemistry, cannabinoids biosynthesis, metabolomics, genomics, biomass production, quality control, and pharmacology.Cannabis sativa&
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Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology
Suman Chandra Hemant Lata Mahmoud A. ElSohly •
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Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology
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Editors Suman Chandra School of Pharmacy University of Mississippi Oxford, MS USA
Mahmoud A. ElSohly School of Pharmacy University of Mississippi Oxford, MS USA
Hemant Lata School of Pharmacy University of Mississippi Oxford, MS USA
ISBN 978-3-319-54563-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54564-6
ISBN 978-3-319-54564-6
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This book is dedicated to the many patients who are to benefit from the knowledge we have accumulated on cannabis and its beneficial constituents for the treatment of so many disease conditions
Foreword
Although cannabis preparations had been used over millennia for their psychoactivity, as well as for their therapeutic properties, their chemistry and biology were not well known until the last few decades. Indeed the major psychoactive cannabis constituent, D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), was isolated in a pure form, and its structure was elucidated, only in the early 1960s. This is in sharp contrast with the thorough knowledge on morphine and cocaine, the two other major illicit drugs, which already had been isolated during the nineteenth century. However, since the 1960s, a large number of investigations have been devoted to the phytocannabinoid and endocannabinoid fields. From a somewhat pedantic viewpoint, one can note a gradual development of three major phases of cannabinoid research. The
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