An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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MECHOULAM, Raphael

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Isolation, structure, and partial synthesis of an active constituent of hashish.

J. Amer. chem. Soc., 86, 1646-1647, 1964.

Mechoulam and Gaoni showed that the active ingredient of "one of the most widely used illicit narcotic drugs," the flowering tops of Cannabis sativa, is "pure tetrhydrocannabinol" (THC).  This they called the "psychotomimetically active resin of the female flowering tops."

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Cannabis sativa or indica, PHARMACOLOGY › Psychopharmacology