Mahmoud A. ElSohly is a Research Professor in National Center for Natural Products Research, Director of the Marijuana Project, and Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at the University of Mississippi. His Research has been continuously funded since 1981 by NIDA and other agencies. He holds more than 40 patents and has authored over 400 scholarly articles. He is also President and Laboratory Director of ElSohly Laboratories, Inc., a testing and drug development company in Oxford, Mississippi.