Kentucky: University Part Of First Study On Marijuana Compound Effects

Addiction researchers are only beginning to understand how dozens of chemical compounds found in the marijuana plant, known as cannabinoids, influence human health and behavior. According to Shanna Babalonis, a researcher and assistant professor of behavioral science at the University of Kentucky, research investigating the effects of cannabinoids on humans is limited. The well-known marijuana […]

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Kentucky: University Part Of First Study On Marijuana Compound Effects

Addiction researchers are only beginning to understand how dozens of chemical compounds found in the marijuana plant, known as cannabinoids, influence human health and behavior. According to Shanna Babalonis, a researcher and assistant professor of behavioral science at the University of Kentucky, research investigating the effects of cannabinoids on humans is limited. The well-known marijuana […]

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Industrial Hemp Focus Of University Field Day

The agronomic and economic potential of industrial hemp, as well as the legal issues surrounding its production, will be the focus of a Purdue Extension field day Aug. 25. Hemp, one of the world’s oldest cultivated crops, was once an important source of oilseed and fiber in the United States, where the hemp industry flourished […]

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University Of Kentucky Harvests Hemp Crop

A hemp crop years in the making in the halls of the Kentucky legislature and the U.S. Congress took only a few minutes to harvest Tuesday from a University of Kentucky farm field. With that harvest, roughly more than half of the first-year experimental crop is now out of the field and headed or soon […]

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