Cannabis as an illicit crop: Recent developments in cultivation and product quality

Bulletin on Narcotics

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-21

  Szendrei, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

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