The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis

The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis, Second Edition provides analytical chemistry methods that address the latest issues surrounding cannabis-based products. Since the first edition was published in 2015, the cannabis industry and their portfolio of recreational and medicinal products has continued to grow and evolve rapidly. The plethora of marketed strains of cannabis and cannabinoid-containing products, combined with the lack of industry standards and labelling requirements, adds to the general perception of poor-quality control and limited product oversight.

The methods described in this leading-edge volume help to support the manufacturing, labelling, and distribution of safe and consistent products with known chemical content and demonstrated performance characteristics. The book treats analytical chemistry within the context of the diverse issues surrounding medicinal and recreational cannabis in a manner designed to foster understanding and rational perspective in non-scientist stakeholders as well as scientists who are concerned with bringing a necessary degree of order to a field now characterized by confusion and contradiction. The second edition will provide an update to the basic information regarding chemistry and pharmacology of cannabis and cannabinoids and will further illustrate how analytical chemistry and scientific methods can address, inform, and eventually resolve the variety of challenges faced by industry, consumers, regulators, and researchers are currently experiencing.

The Analytical Chemistry of Cannabis, Second Edition is written for a broad spectrum of analytical chemists, pharmacologists, medical doctors, clinical trials specialists, public health officials, international food and drug monitoring agencies, forensics specialists, law enforcement officers. It will also be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in pharmacy, pharmacology, experimental therapeutics, analytical chemistry, and forensics.

• Addresses current and emerging analytical chemistry methods- a unique approach among the literature on this topic
• Presents information from a broad perspective on a range of issues in a single, concise volume
• Employs language comprehensible to non-technical stakeholders as well as to specialists in analytical chemistry
• Core concepts in botany, analytical chemistry, dosage formulation, as well as quality control and assurance will be further expanded upon and updated with reference to recent literature, regulatory guidance, and industry best practices
• New chapter added on the endogenous cannabinoid signalling system to provide a foundation for understanding cannabinoid mechanisms of action
• Other new areas discussed in detail include fermentation and other approaches to bulk cannabinoid synthesis, novel formulations and their analytical characterization, applications of st...