Eleanor Rigby | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Member since Nov 24, 2016

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    Eleanor Rigby on 11/24/2016 at 4:30 PM
    Cannabis is a medicine as you have stated in your own words
    " I have any number of illnesses that could make me eligible for pot"

    Getting high as you put it or more importantly when your CB1 receptors are activated by THC Delta 9, they actually give CB1 receptors of every living tissue in your body a feeling of bliss which is the body's way of healing itself. I am not sure what your point is on your post but we are not hiding behind "medical" reasons, quite the opposite my dear friend. We are actually putting it out in the forefront so that our communities can benefit from this medicinal plant as we have done over 4000 years ago.

    THC isn't found naturally in the body. The existence of a specific 'bliss receptor' for THC implied that it was actually just a forgery of a hitherto unknown natural molecular key. The key was isolated by Israeli scientist Raphael Mechoulam in 1992: arachidonyl ethanolamide, later called 'anandamide':

    http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/features/anandamide.shtml

    Ojela