The Doctor Synonymous with THC Research Forges Onward

Zach Klein, the documentarian behind the film “The Scientist,” is a multifaceted individual. Klein was working in Israeli TV, specifically Israeli Sesame Street, while also pursuing a degree in environmental studies when his mother received a dire diagnosis. It was this diagnosis that lead him to examine medical cannabis, eventually establishing both a friendship and working relationship with the Israeli biochemist who, among other achievements, discovered THC in 1964. Now, both Klein and the man known as the grandfather of medical cannabis research, Professor Raphael Mechoulam, have joined together in creating a film to emphasize the importance of the endocannabinoid system, a mechanism that scientists stateside have speculated may have therapeutic potential to treat all human diseases.

“Thirty-five years ago we published a small clinical trial on epilepsy in collaboration with a Brazilian group,” Mechoulam told Cannabis Now. “We isolated from hashish, which was given to us by the police...

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