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Cannabinoids

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Cannabinoids
The chemical compounds that are the active principles in marijuana.
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He and his colleagues started investigating this mystery by searching cell surfaces in live, cultured slices of rat hippocampus for receptors that respond to marijuana and a few other similar drugs, called cannabinoids.
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