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 | | But Roger Pertwee, a neuropharmacologist at Aberdeen University, said yesterday at the British Association festival of science that there is more to the cannabis story."We've discovered to our surprise that cannabis, as well as containing a drug that boosts appetite, contains a drug which has a blocking effect," said Professor Pertwee. |
 | | "The work so far has been working with tissue and we've yet to see what this drug does when we give it to a whole organism and what it does when we give it to humans."The drug, known as tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), works on the same receptors as THC but has entirely the opposite effect. |
 | | The research will be published in the British Journal of Pharmacology.THCV is not the first appetite suppressant to be inspired by cannabis. |
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