Chapter 16.Neurobiology of Marijuana
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Though often thought of as a singular substance, marijuana—or, more accurately, cannabis—consists of at least 100 phytochemicals with distinct chemical structures. The behavioral effects of cannabis have been well described for centuries, but the endogenous system that cannabis works upon was only discovered in the early 1990s. Since that time, much research has been done to uncover the substrates and neural systems associated with the endocannabinoid system.
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