Our brains make their own marijuana: We're all pot heads deep inside
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 06:49
in Health & Medicine
U.S. and Brazilian scientists have just proven that one of Bob Dylan's most famous lines - 'everybody must get stoned' - is correct. That's because they've discovered that the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite, and preventing marijuana abuse...