Adjusting Those 2-AG Levels

Yeah. The title of this post is kinda cryptic. So what is 2-AG? It is an endocannabinoid found in the human body (redundant – but not everyone knows “endo”). There is a recent paper that says increasing the amount of 2-AG in the body is likely to reduce cannabis addiction. I’m not going to annoy you with the whole paper. You have the link. What I want to give you is the money quote.

It is very possible that a subset of heavy marijuana users are actually self-medicating symptoms of anxiety or mood disorders.

And we are making war on these people? Why?


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3 responses to “Adjusting Those 2-AG Levels”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    I don’t believe in the benevolence of nature.
    The chemicals found in plants that have effects in animals are there for a reason that benefits the plant.

    What are the various cannabinoids
    doing in the cannabis plant?

    For one example, nicotine is a deadly neurotoxin to insects. Bug lands on a tobacco leaf, starts munching, falls off dead. There are similar chemicals in other plants. Also, there are nicotinic receptors in human brains.

    Also, seems reasonable that if the cannabinoids are so useful in a cannabis plant there will be close analogs in other plants.

  2. Randy Avatar
    Randy

    And we are making war on these people? Why?

    Short answer: ignorance. And that ignorance runs the gamut from psychology to physiology. And sadly, some of that ignorance is willful.

    There are people who are either unaware or refuse to recognize that untreated psychological harm can lead one to seek solace in drugs or alcohol. There are people who are unaware or refuse to recognize the physiological causes that lie at the root of people’s mental illnesses and that some of these people will self-medicate with drugs and alcohol.

    Many people just can’t accept the scientific findings of the past century or more because those findings go against widely held and cherished religious beliefs. Their holy texts and religious dogmas can’t be wrong, so modern scientific knowledge is either ignored or denounced by these types of people.

    So-called “conventional wisdom” isn’t always wise but because it’s so widely accepted and has been around so long, it’s very difficult to root out these misplaced, untrue beliefs.

  3. Simon Avatar

    Man Mountain Molehill December 9th, 2014

    I can’t answer all your questions but I can tell you that no other plant produces cannabinoids.

    So where did nature proliferate them? Mainly in animals with backbones all descended from a mollusk about 600 million years ago. The cannabis plant is more recent. About 60 million years IIRC.