Academic summary

Cynthia Perez

Mckoy

English II

April 11, 2013

Academic summary

Helen Phillips from the New Scientist Organization argues that there are fundamental problems to how our bodies respond to the various compounds in Cannabis we us. Our system is widespread smoking or ingesting Cannabis can have varied effects. It can also influence on the mind. She claims that purified Cannabis extracts changing the amount, time and place of a dose could make your body have an opposite effects. Phillps develops this claim according to Vincenzo Dimarzo study that he did. Phillips explores that CBI receptors occur in two distinct populations of the neurons. The author says that Dimarzo says that excitement of the neurons that inhabit them, Cannabis can have an opposite effects depending on which neuron it hits. Phillips purpose is to explain that medicinal Cannabis has fundamentals, in order to show that it affects how our body responds to the Cannabis. The author found David baker, a multiple sclerosis expert at the University College found the same problem. Baker tested mice that have been engineered to have a condition like MS. Those with no CBI receptors suffer much worse nerve damaging than those with normal CBI receptors. Cannabinoids are involved in protecting against the nerve damage in MS. In some testing on mice it showed that cannabinoid signaling also prompts release of stress hormones called glucocorticoids that kill neurons. Phillips says that Baker said “The problem with cannabis is that there is no way of targeting the drug to any particular place.” This work is significant because medicinal Cannabis can also have its own affect to the body even though it is supposed to help your body.  People do not know the risk of smoking medicinal Cannabis. If the person using medicinal Cannabis is not careful their effects of the drug make be the opposite of what they expected the drug to do. It can harm your system because of the distinct neuron in our system.