Recommended Methods for the Identification and Analysis of ...
Recommended methods for the identification and analysis of cannabis and cannabis products
Manual for use by national drug analysis laboratories
Photo credits: UNODC Photo Library; UNODC/Ioulia Kondratovitch; Alessandro Scotti.
Laboratory and Scientific Section United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Vienna
Recommended Methods for the Identification and Analysis of Cannabis and Cannabis Products
(Revised and updated)
MANUAL FOR USE BY NATIONAL DRUG ANALYSIS LABORATORIES
UNITED NATIONS New York, 2009
Note Operating and experimental conditions are reproduced from the original reference materials, including unpublished methods, validated and used in selected national laboratories as per the list of references. A number of alternative conditions and substitution of named commercial products may provide comparable results in many cases, but any modification has to be validated before it is integrated into laboratory routines. Mention of names of firms and commercial products does not imply the endorsement of the United Nations.
ST/NAR/40
UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION Sales No. E.09.XI.15
ISBN 978-92-1-148242-3
This publication has not been formally edited. Original language: English
Acknowledgements
The Laboratory and Scientific Section (headed by Justice Tettey) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) wishes to express its thanks to the following experts for their contribution to the contents of the present manual:
Dr. Michael Bovens and Mr. Markus Schl?pfer, Scientific Forensic Service, Zurich City Police, Switzerland
Ms. Sue Fiddian, Manager, Botany Branch, Forensic Services Department, Victoria Police, Australia; and Illicit Drugs Specialist Advisory Group for Senior Managers of Australian and New Zealand Forensic Laboratories (SMANZFL)
Mr. Andrew Holmes, Senior Scientific Advisor, Drug Analysis Service, Health Canada, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Henk Huizer, Drugs Department, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands (retired)
Mr. A. Kader Jackaria, Forensic Chemist and Toxicologist, Mauritius
Dr. Lee Tong Kooi, Division Director, Illicit Drugs and Toxicology Division, Applied Sciences Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore
Mr. Adriano Ot?vio Maldaner and Ms. Daniele Zago Souza, Federal Criminal Police, Brazil
Dr. H. Stambouli, Forensic Science Laboratory, Gendarmerie Royale, Rabat, Morocco
Dr. Kalman Szendrei, Professor emeritus, Albert Szent-Gy?rgyi University, Szeged, Hungary
UNODC's Laboratory and Scientific Section also wishes to express its thanks to Dr. Michael Bovens and Markus Schl?pfer for reviewing and updating the original manual "Recommended methods for testing cannabis", for preparing the initial draft of the present revised and updated manual, and for finalizing the manuscript, using additional contributions from the above experts.*
Barbara Remberg coordinated this publication for UNODC and wishes to acknowledge the contribution of other UNODC staff.
*Dr. Bovens wishes to acknowledge Ms. Lisa Frischknecht for editorial assistance of the initial draft.
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