The Answer Page

The Answer Page is a great educational resource that provides CME (continuing medical education) and has focus areas on cannabis therapeutics. They send out a daily “Question of the day” often related to cannabis, cannabinoids, and medicine. Here is today’s " Question of the day"!
Question of the Day

"THC and CBD are the most commonly occurring cannabinoids in cannabis. What distinguishes them structurally?
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THC and CBD are structural isomers. They are both 21 carbon- containing phytocannabinoids and share an identical chemical formula, C21H30O2. However, the way that the atoms are arranged in the two molecules is different. There is an oxygen-containing closed ring in THC that is open in CBD. Dissolved in a solution, through a process known as ‘isomerization’ involving heat and acid, the two compounds can be interconverted chemically".

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I will see this is added to the library. Great resource.

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