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Towards a better cannabis drug
Author(s) -
Mechoulam Raphael,
Parker Linda
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
british journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.432
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1476-5381
pISSN - 0007-1188
DOI - 10.1111/bph.12400
Subject(s) - cannabidiol , cannabis , tetrahydrocannabinol , psychology , wright , δ9 tetrahydrocannabinol , psychiatry , neuroscience , medicine , pharmacology , cannabinoid , computer science , receptor , programming language
This commentary discusses the importance of a new study entitled 'Cannabidiol attenuates deficits of visuo-spatial associative memory induced by Δ(9) -tetrahydrocannabinol' by Wright et al. from the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California. The results in this study show that the non-psychoactive cannabis constituent cannabidiol opposes some, but not all, forms of behavioural and memory disruption caused by Δ(9) -tetrahydrocannabinol in male rhesus monkeys.