endogenous THC

[David]

>>They have now found a compound called anandamide to have agonist action, 
>>but I don't believe anandamide is endogeneous, so the mystery remains...

>Restak covers this in his new book entitled "Receptors".
>He claims that there is an endogenous ligand for the THC receptor.

And anandamide is _it_.  See the paper by R. Mechoulam in the July
1993 issue of _Journal of Neurochemistry_ (sorry; I don't have the
full citation).  By the way, the word is derived from the Sanskrit for
"bliss."

--David Epstein