Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance

[u4ic]

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.

In the skin, explained lead researcher Tamás Bíró of the University of Debrecen, Hungary, these compounds help the sebaceous glands protect us from harsh outer elements, such as the drying effects of wind and sun. Cannabinoids are thought to have a similar role in the leaves of the marijuana plant.

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



Let the licking begin! :bounce:

[lost-in-nj]

1. hmmmm

cough, cough "oral" cough cough, has a WHOLE new meaning

:evilgrin:



:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:


lost

[mcctatas]

2. So after I loofah my feet...

can I smoke the skinflakes?

[Mutley]

3. So, can I collect my skin flakes and smoke them?

Ew, just typing that grosses me out. :rofl:

[mcctatas]

6. this guy?

[Orsino]

7. And it shares, or else it gets the hose again. n/t

[Zuiderelle]

4. Wait, didn't someone famous try to smoke his relative's ashes recently?

Maybe he was on to something. :o

[PeaceNikki]

8. Keith Richards claimed to have snorted his dad's ashes (mixed with cocaine).

Then he said he was kidding.

[Zuiderelle]

9. Right! That was it.

:crazy:

[Drum]

5. It's people!!!

:smoke:

[kentauros]

13. No wonder Soylent Green

is, well, green!

[flvegan]

10. There are a number of dirty jokes I could make here using the word "smoker"

But I won't.

[JVS]

11. can we get genetically modified so that we're stoned all the time?

[mitchum]

12. It doesn't work like any way you hope

damn

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Now I have to set myself on fire.

:smoke:

[kedrys]

15. Wonder if the same is true for cats

It would explain the insanely elaborate tongue baths mine take twice a day... :P

[one mean sheath]

16. wow

that's way better than the fact that i smoke so much my sweat smells like straight up weed. haha.

[DBoon]

17. new meaning to the phrase...

"your breath and bong water"

[Guava Jelly]

18. So that explains u4oria

:evilgrin: Hello M'friend :hi:
Does this mean that I can get a buzz by smoking my bedsheets? :dunce: :loveya:

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. So, when drug-testing is done using hair samples

Will those show up as false-positive? :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

20. So how long until the American government illegalizes humans as part of the war on drugs?

(I mean non-Mexican humans, they're already working pretty hard to illegalize them.)