Do you appreciate marijuana? It's pretty great.

Why do we have THC receptors? From my understanding when we smoke the herb, the thc attatches itself to our receptors in the brain. Why do we have these receptors that interact with thc, do they serve any purpose other than letting us get high?

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Wondered this for a while.

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They're cannabinoid receptors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptor

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Our brain releases its own cannabinoids called endocannabinoids and they are released by your brain and control the amount of other chemicals like dopamine that is released.

Its basically an evolutionary coincidence (or a divine creation) that kicks ass.
And Cannabis has TONS of other cannabinoids that do different things to the brain. Like straight THC is pretty bad for you, its all of the things in bud that make it... perfect.

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yeah man,pretty much the THC connects to anandamide receptor also known as the bliss chemical,and anandamide is release during exercises like running and bike riding and there is anadamide in chocolate,there's more anadamide in raw chocolate than milk chocolate

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Good post.

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Activation of cannabinoid receptors has also been shown to promote cell death in cancer. Kind of like hiring more fire fighters to put out a fire, where as chemotherapy is like detonating a nuclear device to put out that fire.

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Please make an old hippie happy, click that first link in my sig and just read the titles of the articles and studies I have collected. I'm not even asking you to deal with the studies- just their titles!

Cannabis is a mind-blowingly amazing herbal medicine. It's not "just" for "getting high", or relieving pain, or nausea. Cannabis stops the progress of breast, prostate, lung and brain cancers. It is prevents blindness from diabetes and maybe the diabetes in the first place. It can relieve difficult to treat neuropathic pain that addictive narcotics can't touch! Cannabis is a powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant drug. It can prevent epileptic seizures and calm the tremor of Parkinson's. It may reverse Alzheimer's! It is one of the few treatments for Mad Cow Disease! (Would a bigger dose be a cure? We aren't allowed to do the research to find out!) And it all has to do with the cannabinoid receptors.

And, hon, there is SO much more!

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You want legal cannabis? Teach others the medical facts and back it up with the studies! If the information in my list became common knowledge, we would have legal cannabis within a year.... or a revolution.

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so if we have cannabinoid receptors, we were bred to smoke, no? i mean its not like we have receptors for every chemical out there, so in my own little world, god must have made us to smoke his weed that he put on his planet :P