At 06:15 AM 9/3/00 -0400, you wrote:

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote:

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Not to mention that there exists a certain peptide, the name of which escapes me at the moment, which is naturally occuring in the brain. It is five amino acids long, and exerts an effect about 5000 times stronger than that of Heroin. There are far more where that came from.

Of course. Just as there is anandamide, the transmitter which hemp compounds mainly mimic. Only you do not easily get such substances into the brain without using a needle - proteins generally do not get through the blood-brain barrier absent active transport.

Most inhaled substances can easily circumvent the brain-blood barrier through a nasal path (forget which). Its now become a common dosage approach for certain brain medicines. steve