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Cannabis is a complex and powerful plant. It’s simply mind-boggling that all those tiny little chemicals inside the trichomes have their own evolutionary roles as well as a great therapeutic potential for humans.

There are more than 100 of these compounds in each cannabis plant. The best known is, of course, the notorious and psychoactive THC. However, a new superstar among cannabinoids has risen to fame, and, because it’s not psychoactive, is completely stealing the spotlight—that cannabinoid is called CBD.

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Besides THC and CBD, there are many other cannabinoids which are present in the plant in varying quantities. Most of the time THC is the most prevalent cannabinoid with CBD coming in second. The other cannabinoids are present in small quantities, totaling at usually less than 1 percent, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore them.

Even though they aren’t the chemical majority in the plant, they all contribute to cannabis’s many health benefits in something called the “entourage effect”.