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Until recently, no one knew that mechanism of action of this widely used and very safe drug.

Acetaminophen enhances one part of our endogenous cannabis brain system to reduce pain.

Acetaminophen reduces the level of a second part of our endogenous cannabis brain system to reduce pain.

These results may explain why cannabis has promising effects in the treatment of symptoms related to autism.

Acetaminophen has been available since the 1950s and in everyone’s medicine cabinet for so long that some of us treat it as a part of a food group. Now, surprisingly, it’s in the news. Much has already been said by the medical community about the veracity of recent claims by Secretary Robert Kennedy about its connection to autism . As a former member of the Harvard Autism Consortium,

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