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VCU Pharmacology and Toxicology Chairman, Billy R. Martin, Ph.D. dies

Billy R. Martin, Ph.D., chair of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and internationally renowned for his research in understanding addiction and drugs of abuse and how they affect the brain, died Sunday June 8th 2008  in Richmond. He was 65.

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Martin played a prominent role in developing the
department’s reputation for landmark research in
drugs of abuse. For more than 30 years, Martin’s
primary focus was researching the effects of
marijuana’s  principal psychoactive ingredient,
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.
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