Cannabis - Small, Ernest

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Résumé :
Cannabis sativa is best known as the plant source of marijuana, the world's most widely consumed illicit recreational drug. However, it is also extremely useful as a source of stem fiber, edible seed oil, and medicinal compounds, all of which are undergoing extraordinarily promising research, technological applications, and business investment. This book is a comprehensive reference reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing botanical, horticultural, genetic, ecological, chemical, medical, historical, sociological, legal and business considerations that are critical for the wise advancement and management of cannabis....

Biographie:

Dr. Ernest Small received a doctorate in plant evolution from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1969, and has since been employed with the Research Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, where he presently holds the status of Principal Research Scientist. He is the author of 14 previous books, six of which received or were nominated for major awards. He has also authored over 350 scientific publications on plants. Dr. Small?s career has included dozens of appearances as an expert botanical witness in court cases, acting as an adviser to national governments, presenting numerous invited university and professional association lectures, supervising post-graduate students at various universities, participating in international societies and committees, journal editing and media interviews. He has been an adjunct professor at several universities, and currently has this status at Ryerson University in Toronto. Dr. Small is widely known for his work on hemp and marijuana, which has included development of a standard strain that has been the basis of all licensed medicinal marijuana in Canada for more than a decade, supplying over 100,000 patients. Dr. Small published two previous books and more than 40 research papers on Cannabis. He has received several professional honors, including: election as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London; the G.M. Cooley Prize of the American Association of Plant Taxonomists for work on the marijuana plant; the Agcellence Award for distinguished contributions to agriculture; the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medal for contributions to science; the George Lawson Medal, the most prestigious award of the Canadian Botanical Association, for lifetime contributions to botany; and the Lane Anderson Award, a dollars10,000.00 prize for science popularization, received for Top 100 Food Plants. His most recent books, Top 100 Exotic Food Plants, and North American Cornucopia: top 100 indigenous food plants, were finalists for the Botanical and Horticultural Libraries? award.