endocannabinoid

Rodent and human studies have revealed a multitude of effects starting during gestation and lasting into adulthood.

Children born to moms who smoked or ingested marijuana during pregnancy suffer higher rates of depression, hyperactivity, and inattention.

And the same endocannabinoid system that translates marijuana's buzz-inducing compounds into a high plays crucial roles in health and disease outside the brain.

The system responsible for the buzz humans get from marijuana plays a passel of physiological roles outside the brain.

In young mice, THC had the opposite effect.

Academics partner with a biotech firm to investigate cannabinoids and develop potential therapeutics.