The Active Principle of Indian Hemp
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active principle; and said that it possessed much narcotic activity. No subsequent observers, however, have been able to obtain, by the process employed by Smith, any body which fully answers to the description of Smith's ' Cannabin. ' In 1S57 Personnel) resolved the volatile oil, obtained by distillation of ^e plant, with water, into Cannabene (C18 H?0) a light hydrocarbon, and a Solid crystalline hydride of cannabene (C3 8 H22). He states that inhalation of the vapour of cannabene
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