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Is Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) an alcohol?
gpt
When people refer to "alcohol", they could mean 3 things:

1. Ethanol, grain alcohol, or alcoholic drinks

2. Simple aliphatic alcohols like methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, t-butanol, et cetera.

3. Any compound with an -OH group

In the strictly technical sense (3) yes, THC is an alcohol, but not in either of the more common senses (1&2). Any organic compound that has an -OH group could be called an alcohol. Looking up the structure, THC a phenolic alcohol, which means that -OH has different properties than an aliphatic alcohol, but either way, the technical answer to your question is yes.

Is it useful to classify it that way? Probably not. There are many other compounds that also would qualify as alcohols by the same metric, including sugar (sucrose, fructose), DNA, bisphenol A, capsaicin, salicylic acid, etc... Calling THC an alcohol doesn't really tell you much useful information other than "it has an OH group somewhere"