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And it helps regulate mood, stress, appetite, memory, pain, reward, even how strongly we react to things around us, basically how we interpret sensations.

In other words, it is involved in many of the exact same functions that people notice shifting when they consume weed.

Fun fact, the endocannabinoid system is also the same system responsible for the high feeling that some people get from exercise.

Everybody has an endocannabinoid system and every body naturally produces its own endocannabinoid molecules.

Whether you smoke weed, whether you don't, whether you've ever seen weed, looked at weed, smelt weed or not, your body already has a system in place.

In particular, your body naturally produces two well-known cannabis-like chemicals, anandamide, which is known as the bliss molecule, and 2-AG.

These chemicals naturally bind to cannabinoid receptors in your body to influence mood, pain, appetite, memory, and

Another fun fact, a Harvard report found that we actually have more cannabinoid receptors in our bodies, specifically CB1 receptors, than nearly any other receptor in our brain and in our system.

That is how important they are to how we function.

Now, cannabis works by interfering with the system and acting on those same receptors of which we have many, but in ways that is artificial, meaning basically the chemicals that are coming in weren't naturally produced by the body and may occur at like a higher level than what the body is normally used to, meaning it disrupts the system, meaning we get the symptoms of being high that we are used to.

The main reason weed can feel euphoric or strange or calming or even disorientating is because of its chemical makeup.

One University of Mississippi study has found that there are over 140 cannabinoids as well as other chemicals that make up the chemical structure of cannabis.

When those enter our body, they kind of flood every single system and they create the reactions that we know.

But when we talk about mainly the psychological sensation that accompanies weed, we are mainly talking about two specific cannabinoids that have the most impact, THC and CBD.

They are both active components found in cannabis.

They affect the body and brain very differently and

and are the most significant of the chemicals that make up cannabis.

So basically they are responsible for the majority of the feeling that we have in response to smoking weed or consuming weed.

So THC is the main psychoactive component.

This is the component most responsible for the classic high that people feel.