While some researchers are investigating smoked or vaporised cannabis most are looking at specific cannabis compounds, called cannabinoids . Read More

The three-dimensional image of cannabinoid receptor 1, revealed October 20 in Cell, reveals how molecules like THC bind to cannabinoid receptor 1, ... Read More

"Cannabinoids can produce very different outcomes, depending on how they bind to the CB1 receptor," NIDA director Nora Volkow said in a press ... Read More

Now, researchers have pieced together the clearest picture to date of how THC binds to a specific cannabinoid receptor in the brain to produce the ... Read More

IMAGE: Superimposed on the shadow of a marijuana leaf and artistic smoke, the molecular structure of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 is shown as a ... Read More