In biology textbooks and beyond, the human genome and DNA therein typically are taught in only one dimension. While it can be ...

Synthetic cannabinoids, a class of new psychoactive substances, have emerged as a significant public health and social stability threat due to their structural diversity, rapid iteration, and stronger ...

Long-term, persistent weekly or more frequent cannabis smoking leaves a distinct and partially reversible epigenetic ...

The Stanley Brothers created Charlotte's Web, the CBD supplement that’s worked wonders on seizures. Now they are developing ...

They all come from the same plant, Cannabis sativa. This plant contains hundreds of chemical substances known as cannabanoids. Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the psychoactive cannabanoid responsible ...

A collaborative study sheds light on how cannabis use affects brain development in young people, the main one being atrophy of certain regions of the cerebral cortex.

To do this, we examined the effects of cannabis use on an molecular process called DNA methylation. DNA methylation is a chemical process that regulates gene activity by turning genes on or off and ...

CBD and THC have the same molecular structure: 21 carbon atoms, 30 hydrogen atoms, and 2 oxygen atoms. A slight difference in how the atoms are arranged accounts for the differing effects on your ...

In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found changes to the structure of ...

For starters, its chemical structure is similar to that of its well-known cousin, delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9 THC), the main compound in marijuana that gets you high. Delta-8 vs. delta-9 ...

Chemical Structure and Production Hydrogenation and Molecular Structure HHC, or hexahydrocannabinol, is a cannabinoid that is structurally similar to THC, but with a hydrogenated six-membered ring.

As marijuana decriminalization spreads across the country, some say there is a growing need for technology that can detect THC impairment.