CDR: Re: Whipped Europeans

Steve Schear schear at lvcm.com
Mon Sep 4 11:55:29 PDT 2000


At 06:15 AM 9/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote:
>
> >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





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