Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion

1:30 pm

Professor David Finn:

I do not think it is undefined. We know that cannabinoids work primarily at cannabinoid receptor type 1 and cannabinoid receptor type 2. These are G protein-coupled receptors. We know the signal transduction cascades well. There is a great deal of molecular biology and neurochemical data on the mechanism of action of the cannabinoids.