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intro to cannabis
discuss the life cycle and specific properties of the cannabis plant
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Terpene | Terpenes are a class of natural products consisting of compounds with the formula (C₅H₈)ₙ for n ≥ 2. Terpenes are major biosynthetic building blocks. Comprising more than 30,000 compounds, these unsaturated hydrocarbons are produced predominantly by plant |
| Cannabinoids | Cannabinoids are a group of more than 80 known chemical compounds found in all parts of the cannabis plant1. They are also found in most animal organisms, but not in insects2. Cannabinoids are naturally-occurring, biologically active, chemical constituent |
| William O’Shaughnessy | Sir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy (1809–89) was an Irish physician working in Calcutta, India, who studied the medicinal uses of cannabis. He first experimented with animals to gauge cannabis’s toxicity. While his animal subjects ranged from dogs and pigs |
| The Indian Hemp Commission | The 19th century’s most noted study of cannabis came in the shape of the “Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report,” conducted by the British government and published in 1894. This study was not focused solely upon the fiber cannabis varieties commonly called |
| The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 | The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 is the principal international treaty prohibiting the production and supply of proscribed classes of drugs around the world, including cannabis, LSD, cocaine, and heroin. This treaty requires signatory natio |
| Raphael Mechoulam | Dr. Raphael Mechoulam has conducted cannabinoid research in Israel since the 1960s, with much of his work funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Even though cannabidiol (CBD) had first been isolated from Mexican cannabis and Indian hashish sam |
| plant family Cannabaceae | This small family consists of flowering plants that likely originated within the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, but has evolved and spread worldwide. |
| Cannabis sativa | Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa23 and Cannabis sativa subsp. indica24), though this distinction remains intensely controversial. Both camps assert that sativa is the fiber type of cannabis that produces more CBDA and less than one percent THCA |
| Cannabis indica | indica is the drug-rich cannabis, whose THCA content contained within the upper part of the plant is above one percent and can reach 30 percent of the plant’s dry weight |
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