Therapeutic Potential for Cannabis and Cannabinoids, 3rd Edition
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2025) | Viewed by 1901
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Interests: cannabis; cancer; inflammatory bowel disease; pain; cannabinoids
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Dear Colleagues,
Cannabis has a history of medical use dating back millennia; however, the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes fell out of favor in the last century. There is currently a renewed interest in the potential medicinal value of this plant, as well as individual compounds produced by Cannabis (and synthetic analogs). Currently, nearly 50 countries permit the medical use of cannabis, and over a dozen other countries have legalized cannabis-based products (CBD, Sativex, Dronabinol, etc.) for medical use. While there exists a plethora of anecdotal reports demonstrating that cannabis can treat a variety of diseases, there is a limited number of strong, evidence-based scientific data supporting these claims.
This Special Issue of Biomedicines, “Therapeutic Potential for Cannabis and Cannabinoids”, will be dedicated to providing evidence for the medicinal value of cannabis in treating human illness and disease. Topics will include but are not limited to preclinical animal models examining the efficacy of cannabis and cannabinoid derivatives on pain, anxiety, cancer, and other diseases and cell and molecular models of cannabinoid pharmacokinetics, drug–drug interactions, and disease treatment. These studies will be of great importance not only for progressing the cannabis field but also for validating the use of cannabis and cannabinoids as therapeutics.
Dr. Wesley M. Raup-Konsavage
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cannabis
- tetrahydrocannabinols (THC)
- cannabidiol (CBD)
- cannabigerol (CBG)
- cannabinoid
- cannabinol (CBN)
- cannabichromene (CBC)
- pain
- cancer
- anxiety
- PTSD
- sleep disorders
- neuroprotection
- anti-inflammatory
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