Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance

[n2doc]

By Robin Nixon, Special to LiveScience
posted: 11 July 2008 12:02 pm ET

Marijuana-like substances made by the skin are necessary for a healthy complexion, a new study concludes.

Back up. We've got pot growing out of our skin?

Essentially, yes. The skin has joined the growing club of organs that is known to produce "endocannabinoids" — the body's own reefer. The biggest producer of endogenous pot is the brain.

Significantly, the new study pins down long-suspected connections between brain and skin and between stress and zits.

more:

http://www.livescience.com/health/080711-skin-brain.html

[Solly Mack]

1. Excuse me while I bogart myself

[shadowknows69]

2. Is this the real reason we suck our thumbs as kids?

I could have saved so much money.

[frog92969]

3. I can smoke my dandruff?!

No more Head and Shoulders for me.

[exothermic]

4. Even after a week???????

:D
:rofl:

[pleah]

5. I don't think mine produces enough.

I need me some more canna-dermis.

[aquart]

6. I'm seeing an ad for an addiction cure center.

Does this info mean that clear-skinned teenagers are on a natural high? Should we be licking each other?

[Lex]

7. :licks arm:

d00d, it's not working for me :hippie:

[Mabus]

10. You've reached your own tolerance level

It probably happened when you were in high school eating cheetos and licking your own fingers. Since you've used yourself up (formerly known as "burn out") you've got to go lick someone else.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. My chihuahua licks my face and then wanders

aimlessly about... this clears up a lot of things for me.

[Jane Austin]

9. So THAT's why our dogs lick us!

Most dogs just sniff us to say "Hello", but a few would rather lick. We had one who was such a licker we named her

Waterloo Lickerish Lollipop. :)

Here's Poppy:

[leveymg]

11. Is this why my dog licks me? Do dogs know something we don't? Before & after pics>

[Cleita]

12. Good to know!

I'll have to tell my pothead neighbor that he should lick himself instead of risking jail to indulge in his recreation.

:hide: All right I'm just kidding.

[CoffeeCat]

13. So, in effect...

...we've all got smokin-hot bodies?

Awesome!

[MuseRider]

14. How many people

Do I have to lick to get high?

[windoe]

15. We should all arrest ourselves immediately

between opiates & cannabinoid receptors in the brain and now--cannabinoids in the skin? Especially when we are happy? You know what that means---war on drugs is a war on us, everything is connected.

[Growler]

16. Wait, what?

[n2doc]

17. Gives a whole new meaning to "Slip me some Skin, Bro!" n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. Ahhhhh, so that's behind my cat's impulses to lick me.

And here I thought it was affection based... :cry:

[L0oniX]

19. Well ...my girl friend smokes my joint a lot and now I know why.

:evilgrin: