Pot staves off Alzheimer's, good for old folks, too bad it's ILLEGAL

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/463215p-389669c.html

Stoners who spent the 1960s and '70s in a haze could find themselves surprisingly lucid in old age: the marijuana they smoked helps protect against Alzheimer's disease, a new study found.
Anti-inflammatory compounds in pot deflect the memory loss associated with the illness and could ultimately slow its progression, said psychology Prof. Gary Wenk of Ohio State University.

Wenk gave old rats - who, like humans, tend to get lost as they age - a synthetic form of marijuana. The ones given the drug found their way through a maze more easily.

"That's not going to cure Alzheimer's disease, but it's going to help a lot because by reducing inflammation we're going to rescue some neurons - we're going to help you not decay so fast," said Wenk, who presented his findings yesterday at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Atlanta.

[OneBlueSky]

1. well . . . there's one disease I will NEVER suffer from . . . :) n/t

.

[Philosoraptor]

3. one old rat who won't get lost

gettin' high with the old rats.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Dat's right brah!

Go ahead! Hide the cheese ANYWHERE in da swamp an' I can find it! :D

[Philosoraptor]

11. after smoking, you WILL find that cheese.

[Cooley Hurd]

17. What about lentils?

:rofl:

Neil!!!

[YOY]

22. Shouldn't you replace your little Swamp Rat with 'Special Patrol Group'?

"Hoo! that's th' stuff laddie!"

[Swamp Rat]

27. SPG is too busy fighting teddy bears in the audience

at the University Challenge. :D

[YOY]

28. Was Dubya and Company there or did Lords Monty & Snot and Kendal Mintcake

have to fill in for them? :evilgrin:


http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/4a7/317/4a731730-4e64-4608-bd07-03acb277b6ee.medium

[Subdivisions]

24. Now that I know my mental health will be A-OK, and I quit abusing

my liver years ago, all I have to do now is work on my heart health and I should live to a ripe and sharp-minded old age!

Hell, my heart is all warm and fuzzy already just knowing how kind the bud really is. That's got to be a good start!

[Webster Green]

2. So if I spent the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s in a pot haze?

I should be protected pretty well.

[Philosoraptor]

4. you are now officially an old genius

congratulations.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. But I still can't find my glasses

anyone have a drug for that problem?

[Heidi]

5. Marijuana prohibition in our country has been racist and corrupt

from the get-go.

In 1937, our nation's first drug czar, Harry Anslinger, testified before Congress in favor of marijuana prohibition by saying:
"Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind . . . Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes."

Why on earth do we continue, based on false and racist premises, to deny people the opportunity to use marijuana for medical (and even recreational) purposes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger

[Philosoraptor]

6. causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes."

well now we can't have THAT going on.

[Heidi]

7. Isn't that some of the most disgusting crap you've ever read?

And yet it forms the foundation of our country's drug. :puke:

[NMMNG]

14. OMG!

If I smoke pot I'll not only turn straight, but be into biracial sex? The horror! :sarcasm:

[ThomWV]

26. Me too, with both of them and anyone else they might want to invite

[TahitiNut]

32. OMFG! Denise must've thought I was a "negro"!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: She made the same mistake at least FIVE TIMES that night!! :rofl: :rofl: (Gee, maybe I am!?!) :party:

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
I've seen so much of that racist, bigoted, ignorant (but I'm repeating myself, here) SHIT in my life to gag a Grand Canyon's worth of maggots.

[Philosoraptor]

8. Entertainers, Satanic music, Jazz, Swing, WE'RE DOOMED!

[Heidi]

9. Kicked

and recommended.

:kick:

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. You can blame that on William Randolph Hearst.

Fun fact: Hearst was a major force behind making cannabis illegal; he owned several paper mills and hundreds of thousands of acres of pulpwood timber to feed them, and was afraid of competition from hemp paper, which is less expensive and more durable. So he ran stories in his newspapers about "reefer-maddened Negroes" raping white girls and going on crime sprees, which were cited by people like Harry Anslinger as factual (strong resemblance to the racist anti-drug hysteria of the 1890's there, too--seems like Hearst just recycled the old made-up stories and changed "Chinese" to "Negro", and "opium" to "marijuana").

[Mythsaje]

12. But remember

"it has NO medical value whatsoever."

K&R

Not only for this news (which I think I already knew) but also for the comment in the thread about marijuana prohibition being racist from the get-go.

Absolutely true. And the application of the Drug War ever since has continued in that racist tradition.

[Phrogman]

15. I just love good news!

I've been doing something right for a change.

[Cooley Hurd]

18. Alzheimers runs in my family...

...so it's possible I could suffer from it in my old age - EXCEPT for the fact that I heartily partake in the herb.;)

Excellent news - K&R!

[malaise]

19. Guess we are correct

when we say Come to Jamaica and feel alright!! Irie and mellow indeed:D

[Philosoraptor]

20. hack hack cough cough

[Philosoraptor]

21. pass me dat spliff granny

[havocmom]

23. Helps with chronic pain, which interferes with sleep

And lack of sleep contributes to many ills, including heart disease and diabetes.

Wanna cut health care problems and associated costs? Legalize the herb
and tell Big Pharma to bugger off!

[ThomWV]

25. A Maze Means Nothing To Me

And now I know why.

Like the sinking of the Republican ship, just more and more good news every day.

[rhiannon55]

29. So it's the nightly herb cocktails that keep me smart

Thank you sweet Mama Nature! :smoke: :hippie:

[Philosoraptor]

30. take thee a little herb for thy brain's sake

[guinivere]

31. Don't mind if I do.

:smoke:







:D

[rhiannon55]

33. 'ere!

:smoke: :hippie: