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The Cannabis plant and its products consist of an enormous variety of chemicals. Some of the 483 compounds identified are unique to Cannabis, for example, the more than 60 cannabinoids, whereas the terpenes, with about 140 members forming the most abundant class, are...

Cannabinoids are important chemotaxonomic markers unique to Cannabis. Previous studies show that a plant's dry-weight ratio of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to cannabidiol (CBD) can be assigned to one of three chemotypes and that alleles BD and BT encode alloenzymes...

Chemical extraction of cannabinoids can be done in a variety of manners with varying selectivity for the target compounds. Historically four solvent-methods have been employed: compressed liquid hydrocarbons such as butane; supercritical fluid extraction; uncompressed...