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Digging deeper, the ratio of THC to CBD began when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) determined that this ratio was the standardized and acceptable way to determine drug-type pot from industrial-type pot.
Cannabis, also called marijuana, became under international control and deemed one of the most dangerous drugs, with no known medical use and with the greatest potential for abuse.
Cannabis Medicine - What You Need to Know by Ryder Management Inc. provides a history of this very valuable medicinal plant along with a description of its compounds, the plant's benefits, a review of the numerous patents on this plant's medicinal qualities, recipes, and decarbing temperatures for various methods of activating the cannabinoids.
Although the government used gas chromatography as the method for separating the cannabinoids in cannabis, recommended by the United Nations, this method, as it was later revealed, erroneously grouped the cannabinoid CBC - cannabichromene with the cannabinoid - CBD -cannabidiol - which may have given CBD unnecessary and misdirected fame for what may actually be owed to CBC.