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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GAONI, Y.

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1964 CE

#14091

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

MECHOULAM, Raphael (1930 – )
MECHOULAM, Raphael (1930 – ) GAONI, Y.

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 "psychoto…