Handbook of Cannabis and Related Pathologies

1. The Cannabis Plant: Botanical Aspects 2. The biosynthesis of cannabinoids 3. Increasing plant concentrations of THC and implications on health related disorders 3. Age as a Predictor of Cannabis Use 4. Lifetime cannabis use and cognition in psychosis spectrum disorders 5. A Profile of Synthetic Cannabinoid Users 6. Dual disorders in cannabis misuse 7. Cannabis use and cognitive function 8. Cannabis, migration and psychosis onset 9. The global epidemiology and disease burden of cannabis use and dependence 10. International aspects of cannabis use and misuse - the Australian perspective 11. International aspects of cannabis use and misuse: Egypt 12. Cannabis Body Packing - A Caribbean Perspective 13. Gender differences in cannabis use disorders 14. The role of age in the onset and further development of cannabis use disorders 15. Effects of Cannabis Use on Neurocognition in Adolescents and Emerging Adults with Psychiatric Comorbidities 16. Correlates and consequences of prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE): identifying and characterizing vulnerable maternal populations and determining outcomes for exposed offspring 17. Cannabis and clubbing: Relevance of cannabis and polydrug use in the clubbing culture today 18. Cannabis and Sexual Behavior 19. Friendships and Cannabis Use 20. Students' knowledge of cannabis 21. Childhood trauma and cannabis - risk factors in severe mental disorders 22. Parent's Influence on Their Children's Cannabis Use 23. Cannabis Users and Premorbid Intellectual Quotient (IQ) 24. Cannabis and traffic accidents 25. Drug-related pictures, attentional bias, and cannabis use 26. Cannabis use and first-episode psychosis patients (FEP) 27. Cannabis, associative memory, fMRI, and the Implicit Association Test 28. Stress Response in Cannabis Users and Psychosis 29. Motivation in Chronic Cannabis Use 30. Cannabis use and its association to mental illness: a focus on mood and anxiety disorders 31. Cannabis Use and Well-being 32. Craving and cannabis: A

Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSB, FRSPH, FRSC, FRCPath graduated with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. After gaining his University of London PhD, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was later awarded his second doctorate (DSc), for his contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. He is Professor of Clinical Biochemistry (Hon) at King's College Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at King's College London. He has Honorary Professorships at the University of Hull, and the University of Suffolk. Professor Preedy was the Founding Director and then long-term Director of the Genomics Centre at King's College London from 2006 to 2020. Professor Preedy has been awarded fellowships of the Royal Society of Biology, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, the Royal Institute of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Medicine. He carried out research when attached to the National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London), The School of Pharmacy (now part of University College London) and the MRC Centre at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with international research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA, and Germany. To his credit, Professor Preedy has published over 750 articles, which includes peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, abstracts and symposium presentations, reviews and edited books.