Contents
1 Classification ofCannabis sativaL. in Relation to Agricultural,
Biotechnological, Medical and Recreational Utilization.......... 1
Ernest Small
2 History of Cannabis as Medicine: Nineteenth Century
Irish Physicians and Correlations of Their Observations
to Modern Research...................................... 63
Ethan B. Russo
3 Cannabis sativaL.: Botany and Horticulture.................. 79
Suman Chandra, Hemant Lata, Ikhlas A. Khan
and Mahmoud A. ElSohly
4 Cannabis sativaandCannabis indicaversus“Sativa”
and“Indica”............................................ 101
John M. McPartland
5 Morpho-Anatomy of Marijuana (Cannabis sativaL.)............ 123
Vijayasankar Raman, Hemant Lata, Suman Chandra, Ikhlas A. Khan
and Mahmoud A. ElSohly
6 Chemical and Morphological Phenotypes in Breeding
ofCannabis sativaL....................................... 137
Gianpaolo Grassi and John M. McPartland
7 Natural Cannabinoids of Cannabis and Methods of Analysis..... 161
Mohamed M. Radwan, Amira S. Wanas, Suman Chandra
and Mahmoud A. ElSohly
8 Cannabinoids: Biosynthesis and Biotechnological Applications........ 183
Supaart Sirikantaramas and Futoshi Taura
9 The Pharmacology and Therapeutic Potential of Plant
Cannabinoids............................................ 207
Maria Grazia Cascio, Roger G. Pertwee and Pietro Marini
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