The cannabis plant has been used for millennia, even before scientists discovered its properties.
Ancient people used THC, including the Chinese, Indians, and Persians. They used cannabis preparations as medicine and as a psychomimetic drug.
In the 1830s, an Irish doctor, William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, discovered that cannabis could help stomach pain and vomiting.
In the late 1800s, the benefits of cannabis plant extracts have boosted. It was then sold to almost every pharmacy throughout Europe and the United States for medicinal use.
Afterward, scientists discovered one of the compounds found in the cannabis plant, which is THC. They found out that THC was the substance that gives marijuana medicinal properties.
It began when Harvard-trained chemist, Roger Adams, explored THC’s relationship to CBD. However, he did not isolate THC from the cannabis plant. Instead, he synthesized it from the laboratory.
The official discovery of THC was in 1964 by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam with his colleagues. They isolated THC and described its structure.