Despite there being challenges and barriers to cannabis research and performing rigorous studies of its works on the body, scientists were able to make various important discoveries. They did not only discover cannabis’ numerous chemical compounds of which tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal active ingredient which accounts for its psychoactive properties, and cannabidiol (CBD) are the most extensively studied; they were able to pinpoint areas in the brain where it acts and make out how this occurs. This system is known as the endocannabinoid system. It a system with receptors of different signalling mechanisms; cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1) which is distributed throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems and organs, as
