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Facile determination of natural cannabinoids in cannabis products using a conventional fully porous particle column and isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detector

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The authors would like to acknowledge the Narcotics Control Department, Kinki Bureau of Health and Welfare, and Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan for providing the seized cannabis samples.

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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Kasumi 1-2-3, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan

    Akira Namera & Masataka Nagao

  2. GL Sciences Inc., Saitama 358-0032, Japan

    Shigenori Ota

  3. Narcotics Control Department, Shikoku Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, Kagawa 760-0019, Japan

    Yasuhiro Tomioka

  4. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan

    Takeshi Saito

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Namera, A., Ota, S., Tomioka, Y. et al. Facile determination of natural cannabinoids in cannabis products using a conventional fully porous particle column and isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detector. Forensic Toxicol 40, 417–421 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-022-00630-0

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