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Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance | LiveScience
Topic: Health and Wellness 12:57 pm EDT, Jul 12, 2008

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.

Significantly, the new study pins down long-suspected connections between brain and skin and between stress and zits.

Your Skin Produces Marijuana-Like Substance | LiveScience



 
 
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