A paper in Science by William Devane, Lumír Hanuš, Aviva Breuer and colleagues reported a substance in pig brain that binds to the same receptor as THC. They named it anandamide, from the Sanskrit ananda, meaning joy or bliss. The body, it turned out, makes its own counterpart to the plant's active ingredient.[1]
In the cultural atlas
People · Czech chemist, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1990 · 1947–Lumír HanušA Czech chemist who grew and analysed cannabis for twenty years in communist Olomouc, then co-discovered anandamide, the brain's own cannabinoid, in Jerusalem in 1992. At home he became one of the best-known voices for medical cannabis.
People · Israeli chemist · 1930–2023Raphael MechoulamThe Israeli chemist who identified THC in 1964, from five kilos of hashish lent by the police, and whose group later found the body's own cannabinoids. Much of what is known about how cannabis acts began in his laboratory.
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