Author: Peter Besnard
Publisher:
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Category : Flax
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: Suman Chandra
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319545647
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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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 L. (Family: Cannabaceae) is one of the oldest sources of fiber, food and medicine. This plant has been of interest to researchers, general public and media not only due to its medicinal properties but also the controversy surrounding its illicit use. Cannabis has a long history of medicinal use in the Middle East and Asia, being first introduced as a medicine in Western Europe in the early 19th century. Due to its numerous natural constituents, Cannabis is considered a chemically complex species. It contains a unique class of terpeno-phenolic compounds (cannabinoids or phytocannabinoids), which have been extensively studied since the discovery of the chemical structure of tetrah ydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), commonly known as THC, the main constituent responsible for the plant’s psychoactive effects. An additionally important cannabinoid of current interest is Cannabidiol (CBD). There has been a significant interest in CBD and CBD oil (extract of CBD rich Cannabis) over the last few years because of its reported activity as an antiepileptic agent, particularly its potential use in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children.

Author: James H. Mills
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191554650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. It draws on published and unpublished sources from the seventeenth century onwards, from archives in the UK and India, to show how the history of cannabis and the British before the twentieth century was bound up with imperialism. James Mills argues that until the 1900s, most of the information and experience gathered by British sources were drawn from colonial contexts as imperial administrators governed and observed populations where use of cannabis was extensive and established. This is most obvious in the 1890s when British anti-opium campaigners in the House of Commons seized on the issue of Government of India excise duties on the cannabis trade in Asia in order to open up another front in their attacks on imperial administration. The result was that cannabis preparations became a matter of concern in Parliament which accordingly established the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission. The story in the twentieth century is of the momentum behind moves to include cannabis substances in domestic law and in international treaties. The latter was a matter of the diplomatic politics of imperialism, as Britain sought to defend its cannabis revenues in India against American and Egyptian interests. The domestic story focuses on the coming together of the police, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to form misunderstandings of cannabis that forced it onto the Poisons Schedule despite the misgivings of the Home Office and of key medical professionals. The book is the first full history of the origins of the moments when cannabis first became subjected to laws and regulations in Britain.

Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Research Publications, inc
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: Julian Hoppit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015251
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Alice Effie Murray
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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