The commercial market of cannabidiol (CBD)-containing products is a huge business. CBD has garnered a reputation as something of a cure-all, akin to other natural product remedies in popular culture. However this reductionist approach, by which the therapeutic effects of cannabis are conflated with one of its easily isolated components, ignores the chemical complexity of natural products and extracts. Our 2020 Perspectives in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry reviewed the published medicinal chemistry properties of CBD, clearly defined CBD-containing products and substances, and discussed factors that might impact CBD’s therapeutic development. A further discussion of this data will be presented, with a focus on what is known about the effects of CBD on biological systems.

Further discussion of the essential medicinal chemistry of CBD

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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