abstract the essential oil and the solvent extract of two populations of cannabis sativa l. ssp. spontanea growing wild in austria were analyzed comparatively. in the essential oil, myrcene (31% and 27%, respectively), (e)--ocimene (13% and 3%, respectively) and -caryophyllene (11% and 16%, respectively) were found, while in the solvent extract the non-hallucinogeneous cannabidiol (77% and 59%, respectively) dominated. the hallucinogeneous -9-tetrahydro-cannabinol (thc) was also found in the solvent extract at a level of less than 1%. key word index: cannabis sativa ssp. spontanea cannabaceaeessential oil compositionmyrcene(e)--ocimene-caryophyllenecannabinoids