E-spliffs - medicinal cannabis minus the high

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3035, 2015, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wilson talks about the health claims of cannabidiol. It is the first time she has been sent cannabis through the post but she's unfazed--she's probably not doing anything illegal. Her delivery is a MediPen. It is an e-cigarette made using a strain of marijuana high in cannabidiol (CBD), the compound thought to give cannabis its purported medical benefits, and low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the one that gets people high. It's not the first low THC e-cigarette in the UK--a similar device called KanaVape has been on sale since last year--but MediPen is the first designed to give a high dose of CBD. It contains hemp oil imbued with 20 per cent CBD compared with KanaVape's five percent