Cardiovascular Effects of Marijuana
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Cardiovascular Effects of Marijuana.
Plants of the Cannabis species, commonly known as marijuana, contain numerous psychoactive components, including the primary psychoactive compound D-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC). The World Health Organization (WHO) describes cannabis as the most widely used, cultivated, and trafficked illicit drug in the world, with an estimated 147 million people using the drug annually. Consistent with worldw...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1074-2484,1940-4034
DOI: 10.1177/1074248415627874