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The Cannabis Papers
- a citizen's guide to cannabinoids
by Publius
Let’s take a look at “high” ~
High seas: The word “high” is used to indicate that
the seas are public,
just as “highway” means a
“public way.” In both cases, of course,
“high” also
means “chief” or “principal.”
Why Do We Say It?
High road
High hopes
High times
Higher forms of life
Highest potential
High-minded: adjective – being on a high intellectual or moral level.
Characterized by elevated ideals or conduct; noble.
High importance
Higher learning
Higher education
High endurance
Higher ground
“And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that
was getting you down, it could at least help you
laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through
all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.”
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, 1996
High expectations
High resolution
High court
High stakes
High anxiety
High official – as in eminent in rank or status
“With all the things we’ve got to worry about, and our
Justice Department should be doing, that [federal raids
on medical cannabis patients] probably shouldn't be a
high priority.”
Senator Obama, 2007
High scores
High roller
High jump
High energy
High quality
“High is determined by low.”
Tao Te Ching
High pitch
High note
High turnout
High confidence
High standards
“I’d been getting bored with the stereotyped changes
(harmonies) that were being used all the time . . . I
found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a
melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes,
I could play the thing I’d been hearing. I came alive.”
Charlie Parker
High summer
High beam
High point
High speed
High mileage
High tourist season
The Acropolis = high + "polis"= city: the upper,
fortified part of an ancient city, “the high city”: the
most famous and important part of Athens.
High horse
High net worth
High income
High maintenance
High fidelity
Higher power
Thus saith the Lord:
Ye are gods and children of the Most High.
Psalm 82
High spirits
Highlighting
High noon
High jinx
High life
High moral ground
A High Place: The word “altar” derives from the Latin altare,
meaning a “high place.” In the great religious traditions of
the East, the altar similarly assumes a central role in
focusing the mind towards the “high place” where the
enlightened qualities of the deities shine forth.
Tibetan Buddhist Altars
The Helper’s High – named for the good feeling that follows helping others.
“What does “high” mean to you, your highness?”
Publius
Search terms
Cannabis arrests: DSI and DSE: retrograde signaling and ECS: anandamide, 2AG and entourage effect: runner’s high and endocannabinoids.
Research and selected readings
2010: J Fuss and P Gass, Endocannabinoids and voluntary activity in mice: Runner’s high and long-term consequences in emotional behaviors, Experimental Neurology, 29 March 2010:Epub.
2009: Ryan Grim, This is your country on drugs: the secret history of getting high in America, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.
2009: DR Sagar, et al, Dynamic regulation of the endocannabinoid system: implications for analgesia, Molecular Pain, October 2009:5:59.
2008: J Gertsch, Immunomodulatory lipids in plants: plant fatty acid amides and the human endocannabinoid system, Planta Medica, May 2008:74(6):638-50.
2007: SE O’Sullivan, Cannabinoids go nuclear: evidence for activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, British Journal of Pharmacology, November 2007:152(5):576-82.
2007: SP Alexander and DA Kendall, The complications of promiscuity: endocannabinoid action and metabolism, British Journal of Pharmacology, November 2007:152(5):602-23.
2000: Stephen Young, Maximizing harm: losers and winners in the drug war, Writer’s Showcase (iUniverse.com), 2000.
1998: S Ben-Shabat, et al, An entourage effect: inactive endogenous fatty acid glycerol esters enhance 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol cannabinoid activity, European Journal of Pharmacology, July 1998:353(1):23-31.
1998: MD Randall and DA Kendall, Endocannabinoids: a new class of vasoactive substances, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, February 1998:19(2):55-8.
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