Degenhardt's team wanted to look at all available evidence for all types of medicinal cannabinoids.

德根哈特的团队希望查看各种医用大麻的所有可得证据。

A certain segment of them may also be fans of cannabinoids.

他们中的一些人可能也是大麻素的粉丝。

The compounds THC and CBD are known as cannabinoids, because they come from cannabis. AKA marijuana.

四氢大麻酚和大麻二酚化合物被称为大麻素，因为它们是从大麻中提取的。

Now biologists have taken the genes that produce cannabinoids in weed, and plugged them into: yeast.

现在，生物学家已经提取了产生大麻素的基因，并将其塞进酵母中。

Cannabinoids are active chemicals from the plant that binds to cannabinoid receptors in our bodies.

大麻素是来自植物的活性化学物质，可与我们体内的大麻素受体结合。

It's actually made up of over 140 cannabinoids.

它实际上由 140 多种大麻素组成。

A lot of these cannabinoids are non-psychoactive.

许多大麻素类物质没有精神活性。

However, as I mentioned, the cannabis plant has over 100 cannabinoids.

然而，正如我提到的，大麻植物含有 100 多种大麻素。

Keasling says they can even make cannabinoids that don't exist in nature at all, by feeding the yeast certain fatty acids.

基斯林说，通过给酵母喂食某些脂肪酸，他们甚至能制造出自然界根本不存在的大麻素。

That means it activates the cannabinoid receptors in your brain.

这意味着它会激活大脑中的大麻素受体。

In this case, krokodil is a lot like another drug that's gained popularity in the last decade: designer cannabinoids.

在这种情况下，krokodil 很像另一种在过去十年中流行起来的药物：特制大麻素。

The potent psychoactive cannabinoid that leads to the reward -- the high -- is THC, which we scientists call tetrahydrocannabinol.

导致奖励（高）的强效精神活性大麻素是四氢大麻酚，我们科学家称之为四氢大麻酚。

He says yeast could conceivably produce cannabinoids for about $400 a kilogram—compared to the $40,000-a-kilo price tag when using synthetic chemistry.

他说，可以想象酵母可以以每公斤 400 美元的价格生产大麻素——相比之下，使用合成化学时每公斤 40,000 美元的价格标签。

And some of these neurotransmitters are cannabinoids -- chemicals that, when accepted by your neurons, can inhibit the release of other neurotransmitters.

其中一些神经递质是大麻素——当您的神经元接受这些化学物质时，可以抑制其他神经递质的释放。

In examining another cannabinoid, cannabidiol -- that is, CBD -- we were actually surprised to see features relevant to alleviating opioid addiction-related behaviors.

在检查另一种大麻素大麻二酚（ 即 CBD） 时，我们实际上惊讶地发现与减轻阿片类药物成瘾相关行为相关的特征。

Or maybe the heads of the military weren’t too keen on having one of their most deadly weapons associated with a cannabinoid drug.

或者也许军方首脑不太热衷于将他们最致命的武器之一与大麻素药物联系起来。

The active ingredient in cannabis -- known as THC -- basically imitates a cannabinoid and binds to its receptors, interfering with the normal function of neurons.

大麻中的活性成分— — 被称为四氢大麻酚—— 基本上模仿大麻素并与其受体结合， 干扰神经元的正常功能。

STEP 7 Open a box of chocolates. Besides containing the love chemical PEA, chocolate has a small amount of cannabinoids, the same chemical compounds that give marijuana its relaxing properties.

打开一盒巧克力。除了含有爱的化学物质PEA之外，巧克力中还含有少量的大麻醇，这种化合物使大麻具有放松功能。

Now, among the brain cells that have cannabinoid receptors on them are a special set of cells that are thought to regulate eating -- known as POMC neurons.

现在， 在其上有大麻素受体的脑细胞中， 有一组特殊的细胞被认为可以调节饮食— —被称为 POMC 神经元。

Doctor John Huffman is a chemist at Clemson University whose research on marijuana's effects in the eighties and nineties led to the development of these knock-off cannabinoids.

约翰·霍夫曼 (John Huffman) 博士是克莱姆森大学 (Clemson University) 的化学家，他在 80 和 90 年代对大麻影响的研究促成了这些仿制大麻素的开发。