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Handbook of Cannabis (Handbooks in Psychopharmacology)

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In reality global in scope and with contributions from leading researchers around the globe, The Handbook of Cannabis is the definitive resource on this fascinating drug. Combining scientific perspectives and clinical applications, it covers a vast array of topics, from why over the centuries cannabis has been used as a medicine, through the regulations facing those wishing to self-administer cannabis or provide cannabis-based medicines, to the chemical structure of its many constituents and the impulsively growing group of synthetic cannabinoids that are currently being used for ‘legal highs’.

With each chapter written by a group of a number of internationally recognised subject experts, it provides academics and researchers with authoritative scientific material on the main pharmacological actions and their effects, in addition to their pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and forensic detection. In addition it also examines the complex morphology, cultivation, harvesting, and processing of cannabis and the ways in which the plant’s chemical composition may also be controlled.

As well as offering a raft of scientific information there is extensive coverage of cannabinoid-based medicines. Helping readers to identify and evaluate their benefits, chapters explore pharmacological actions and the effects that seem to underlie approved therapeutic uses, how they’re currently used to treat certain disorders, and the ever-growing number of wide-ranging potential clinical applications. There is also coverage of both the legal and illegal sources of cannabis, including ‘coffee shops’ and ‘cannabis dispensaries’.

The complex issue of ‘recreational cannabis’ is also tackled. The sought-after and adverse psychological and non-psychological effects are described and discussions are included on how some adverse effects may also be lessened by a minimum of one constituent of cannabis, and that it might be imaginable to reduce the harm that cannabis does to a couple by changing current regulatory policies.

The Handbook of Cannabis is a one-stop reference; essential reading for all clinicians, pharmacologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists interested in this drug, in addition to those working in the field of public health.

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