Scientists found a cannabis compound in another plant
Scientists found Cannabidiol in an ordinary Brazilian plant. Cannabidol is also found in cannabis, which is only known as CBD. The discovery opens up new opportunities to produce increasingly popular material.
The team found CBD in the crop and flowers of Trema Micrantha Blume. The shrub is growing in most of the South American country, and many are only considered weeds, said a molecular biologist Rodrigo Moura Neto from the Rio de Janeiro federal university to AFP 2023.
The CBD-which is a cannabis One of its main active ingredients is tetrahydrokannabinol (THC) – more and more doctors are used to treat conditions such as epilepsy, chronic pain and anxiety. The effectiveness of the compound as medical treatment is still being researched.
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Neto said that, according to chemical analysis, Trema contains CBD but not THC, which raises the possibility of the former abundant new source because it would not be confronted with legal and regulatory obstacles to cannabis, which is still illegal in many places.
This is a legal alternative to the use of cannabis. This plant grows throughout Brazil. Would be a simpler and cheaper Cannabidiol
He declared.
