Drug vaping applied to cannabis: Is "cannavaping" a therapeutic alternative to marijuana

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Varlet, Vincent ^a   Concha Lozano, Nicolas ^b   Berthet, Aurélie ^b   Plateel, Grégory ^b   Favrat, Bernard ^a,b   De Cesare, Mariangela ^a   Lauer, Estelle ^a   Augsburger, Marc ^a   Thomas, Aurélien ^a,c   Giroud, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; CANNABINOID; CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; MEDICAL CANNABIS;

CANNABIS SMOKING; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; VAPING;

BUTANES; CANNABINOIDS; CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MEDICAL MARIJUANA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VAPING;

EID: 84971246310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25599     Document Type: Article

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