OF 2009 is gonna rock! > From: Riley@ChileGarden.com > To: Chile-heads@globalgarden.com > Subject: [CH] Easing the burn -- News item. > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:44:55 -0700 > > CHs: > > Another remedy for those non-CH friends who inadvertently sample the wrong > dish? > > From an article in the LA Times, from research at UC San Diego: > > "Analgesic drugs are often tested against experimentally induced pain. Such > studies have been conducted for marijuana too. In one 2007 report in the > journal Anesthesiology, 15 healthy volunteers received skin injections with > capsaicin -- the chemical behind that fiery spice in chile peppers -- and > then smoked different-strength marijuana cigarettes. The medium dose, with a > 4% THC concentration, lessened the burning pain." > > This is from the ``Pro'' part of this three part article. > > http://snipurl.com/3hr5s [www_latimes_com] (Pro part) > > http://snipurl.com/3hr9n [www_latimes_com] (Intro part) > > Another dimension to the term ``ChileHead''?! > > Cheers! > > Riley > -- > "To be interested in the changing seasons is a > happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in > love with spring." —George Santayana > _________________________________________________________________ Talk to your Yahoo! Friends via Windows Live Messenger. Find out how. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/messenger?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_yahoo_082008