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- Title
A review of bioanalytical techniques for evaluation of cannabis (Marijuana, weed, Hashish) in human hair.
- Authors
Shah, Iltaf; Al-Dabbagh, Bayan; Salem, Alaa Eldin; Hamid, Saber A.A.; Muhammad, Neak; Naughton, Declan P.
- Abstract
Cannabis products (marijuana, weed, hashish) are among the most widely abused psychoactive drugs in the world, due to their euphorigenic and anxiolytic properties. Recently, hair analysis is of great interest in analytical, clinical, and forensic sciences due to its non-invasiveness, negligible risk of infection and tampering, facile storage, and a wider window of detection. Hair analysis is now widely accepted as evidence in courts around the world. Hair analysis is very feasible to complement saliva, blood tests, and urinalysis. In this review, we have focused on state of the art in hair analysis of cannabis with particular attention to hair sample preparation for cannabis analysis involving pulverization, extraction and screening techniques followed by confirmatory tests (e.g., GC–MS and LC–MS/MS). We have reviewed the literature for the past 10 years' period with special emphasis on cannabis quantification using mass spectrometry. The pros and cons of all the published methods have also been discussed along with the prospective future of cannabis analysis.
- Subjects
CANNABIS (Genus); HAIR analysis; PSYCHIATRIC drugs; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of drug abuse?; MASS spectrometry
- Publication
BMC Chemistry, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2661-801X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13065-019-0627-2