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Gas chromatography of cannabis constituents

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Applications for gas chromatography in the analysis of cannabis are indicated and the systems described in the literature for this purpose are reviewed.

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from a paper presented at a Round Table Conference on “The Chemical Analysis of Dependence Causing Drugs”, organized by the Hungarian Chemical Society, Budapest, 4–6 October, 1973.

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Fish, F. Gas chromatography of cannabis constituents. Chromatographia 7, 311–315 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02290552

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