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 Hello! Me again! 

There's one person that I admire and it's Dr. Raphael Mechoulam. He is a chemistry scientist that, one day, started to study cannabis plant because nobody had done before, and having a small laboratory, was not feasible to provide competition to big laboratories with other more studied topics, and unintentionally discovered and isolated the THC and, several years later, the endocannabinoid system. 

This discovered was very important to science, specially for medical botany and, even nowadays, inspires many studies with latest technology that can help people.

Dr. Mechoulam was born in Bulgaria in 1930, but in the times of Nazi Germany and after the capture of his father, they had to migrate to Israel, where he enlisted in the army and finished his chemistry major. In the 1950s, after his post-doctorate, he entered the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he discovered THC in his laboratory.

I admire dr Mechoulam because he did all of that in a small lab and, today, he is an outstanding scientist and professor who has been recognized and honored around the world for its research, becoming cited more than 4000 times in scientific texts.




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