Apr 22 2009
High on Chemicals
This is your brain.
These are your brain chemicals.
This is your brain high on brain chemicals:
Of course results may differ depending on the unique cocktail each brain cooks up.
Okay, more seriously now, a new study has re-discovered what I thought had already been discovered. The human brain makes its own marijuana-like substance. Endocannabinoids, I believe they are called. Which makes sense, because for exo-cannabinoids to work — i.e., why smoking marijuana does more than irritate the lungs — they need receptors to bind to. And certainly Gawd didn’t diabolically create us so that modern generations would get stoned in a new and different way.
Of the article I liked this sentence the best -
Now, we see that our brain has been making proteins that act directly on the marijuana receptors in our head.
“In our head?” Why not go with noggin? And “marijuana receptors”? Isn’t this a bit like calling an ear canal a Q-tip receptor?
