For years, the cannabis world has treated “the entourage effect” like settled science, a comforting shorthand for why whole-plant weed hits different than an isolated THC pill. Terpenes and cannabinoids work together, the story goes, adding up to more than the sum of their parts. It’s a nice idea. It’s also, according to a new pre-proof study headed for the journal Biochemical Pharmacology, an oversimplification that’s been doing a lot of unearned work in how we talk about cannabis.  

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