• Corpus ID: 52085104

The pharmacological properties of cannabis

@inproceedings{Nahtigal2017ThePP,
  title={The pharmacological properties of cannabis},
  author={Istok G. Nahtigal and Alexia Blake and Andrew Hand and Angelique Florentinus-Mefailoski and Haleh Hashemi and Jeremy Friedberg},
  year={2017}
}

• Istok G. Nahtigal, Alexia Blake, +3 authors J. Friedberg
• Published 2017
• Biology

The efforts to understand the nature of how the consumption of cannabis affects the human body are ongoing, complex, and multifaceted. Documentation on the use of cannabis dates back thousands of years; however, it is only now with the recent softening of legal restrictions that modern research approaches have been able to initiate an appropriate level of detailed investigations. For clinicians, researchers and policy makers, this chapter reviews the general structure of cannabinoids, the current understanding of cannabinoids on cellular systems, the difference between inhalation and oral consumption on cannabinoid bioavailability, the variance among purified cannabinoids versus whole plant extract, and the potential activities of another prominent family of secondary metabolites found in cannabis, the terpenes.