16/05/2019
"Cannabinoids display antibacterial, antifungal and insecticidal properties as well. Their ability to engage our native cannabinoid receptors may be a result of millions of years of biochemical warfare directed at would-be grazers: insects and other creatures that happen to share biochemical signaling pathways with humans."
"If plants target the cannabinoid receptors of other organisms to protect themselves, it follows that whatever signals those receptors evolved to receive have to be vital for these animals’ physiological health."
"CBD might be a badly needed new weapon with which to fight the opioid epidemic that claims more than 130 lives daily in the United States."
-The New York Times
How one molecule from the cannabis plant came to be seen as a therapeutic cure-all.
