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Article: Marijuana could help keep skin allergies at bay
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- June 8, 2007
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London, June 8 -- You might be sent to jail if you're caught while in possession of marijuana, but not if the form of the drug you happen to have is a possible skin cream that soothes skin allergies.
Marijuana contains compounds called cannabinoids, that boffins have found not only stimulate the growth of new neurons, but also ease the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Cannabinoids are also naturally produced in the body.
Now, boffins conducting a new study on cannabinoids have found that in mice, it can relieve some of the swollen, itchy agony of allergic skin reactions.
As a part of their study, boffins clipped ...