it makes thc because I sent it a memo saying to,
collects pollen, protection from the sun, protection from preditors. It gets you high because thats just how its works, like poison ivy has an effect or some poisonous berries do on people, just cause it works for us doesnt mean it was meant for use.
Cannabis has formed a symbiotic relationship with mankind. We cultivate them and (generally) take good care of them and make sure the species continues to thrive, and the plants keep producing more of those lovely lovely cannabinoids that made us want to grow the stuff in the first place!
Real reason:
Plants and animals utilize endorphins and other related chemicals to carry out life processes. These endorphins/neurotransmitters/other chemicals have a remarkable similarity to each other despite species. They are just fundamental to almost all life processes in multicellular creatures.
It just so happens that some of those chemicals in marijuana are so incredibly similar to the same neurotransmitters our body naturally produces and uses that the body doesn't know the difference... and with THC specifically - it stimulates the cannabinoid receptors in our brains that normally respond to Anandamide. Anandamide release causes a similar natural high most often experienced as 'runners high'.
Or in other words the body just confuses foreign THC with Anandamide (which the body naturally produces).
thats how thc gets us high, not why a plant produces thc. good post though.
its a weed. it will continue to thrive thousands of years after we are dead and gone. we have nothing to do with its survival as a species.
its a weed. it will continue to thrive thousands of years after we are dead and gone. we have nothing to do with its survival as a species.
But how do you explain the fact that there are parts of the human brain that are stimulated exclusively by cannabinoids?
I just realised Idk nearly enough about this to get into a proper discussion, so I'm off researching, brb.