endocannabinoid

Proteins that synthesize, bind, and degrade endocannabinoids are present in the body’s sperm factories, suggesting that the use of cannabis may directly affect them.

Whether due to a changing regulatory climate, positive results from early clinical trials, or simply a desire to untangle cannabis’s mythology, scientists have rediscovered cannabis after ignoring it for decades. Find out how a plant's genetic signature translates into a compound profile!

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.