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The Science Of Chocolate & Cannabis: How They Combine To Make Powerful Medicines

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 09/25/2015 - 08:45

Chocolate and cannabis are so wonderful that even the mention of both in a sentence is enough to make one giggle. Scientific proof is mounting that both chocolate and cannabis contain healing properties. Their dance is well-known to many who have fond memories of gorging through a pan of pot brownies. Indeed, these two super foods are magical, but as David Wolfe explains below, there is plenty of science that answers how and why they work so well as medicine.

Cannabinoids

Cannabinoids are fat-soluble (lipophilic), often-medicinal, chemical compounds found in plants and mammals. These compounds can also be synthetically manufactured. The most well-known natural cannabinoid chemical is Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). THC, as we know, is the primary psychoactive compound found in the cannabis genus of plants. Currently there are approximately 85 different cannabinoids that have been isolated from cannabis including the known medicinal compound cannabidiol (CBD). Of cannabis’s cannabinoid extracts, CBD...

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