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This is a short 1970 Nature paper by E. W. Gill, W. D. Paton and R. G. Pertwee that reports preliminary experiments on the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabis. The PubMed entry has no abstract, but its indexing shows the paper looked at drug effects and toxicity, and at topics…
Researchers isolated a new natural cannabis compound called Δ9-tetrahydrocannabiphorol (Δ9-THCP) and its CBD counterpart (CBDP). In lab tests, Δ9-THCP bound very strongly to the human CB1 receptor (Ki = 1.2 nM) and caused THC-like effects in mice (less movement, pain relief, catalepsy, and lower body temperature). The authors say Δ9-THCP…
