Jorge Manzanares is Full Professor of Pharmacology at Universidad Miguel Hernández (Elche, Spain). He is the director of the Translational Neuropsychopharmacology Group of the UMH, carrying out his research activity at the Institute of Neurosciences of the UMH. He graduated in Pharmacy at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Complutense University in 1987. In 2018, he was elected Corresponding Academician of the Academy of Pharmacy Santa Maria de Murcia, Corresponding Academician of the Iberoamerican Academy of Pharmacy, and Senior Professor and Consulting Researcher of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. In 2019, he was appointed Full Academician (medal 49) of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy of Spain of the Institute of Spain, Foreign Corresponding Academician of the National Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Mexico, and Corresponding Academician of the Mexican Academy of Psychiatry and Mental Health. In 2021, he received the title of “Distinguished Visitor” from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the University of Cordoba (Argentina). Also, in this same year, he received the “2021 APS Outstanding Contribution Award” for the article “Cannabidiol does not display drug abuse potential in mice behavior”.