Study: Marijuana compound helps mitigate cocaine addiction in mice

[kpete]

The discovery was announced in the July 2011 edition of Nature Neuroscience.

The study found that cannabidiol, an active component of marijuana that does not produce an inebriating effect, effectively turns down a receptor in the brain that is stimulated by cocaine.

Scientists used a synthetic version of cannabidiol, called JWH-133, to see how mice given regular doses of cocaine would respond. They found that mice given JWH-133 dramatically reduced their cocaine intake by up to 60 percent.

Their success in reducing cocaine consumption in mice may lead to new drug replacement therapies for cocaine and crack addiction, helping addicts detox and overcome withdrawal symptoms much like methadone therapy sometimes prescribed to heroin addicts

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.2874.html

[pleah]

1. K&R

[Wilms]

2. .

[Drale]

3. I didn't realize there was a huge cocaine problem in the mouse community

I know I know I'm terrible.

[Major Hogwash]

5. Evidently in the hood they live in, they've got rats for dealers.

I'm so sick of hearing how we use animals for "scientific purposes" in this country.
There's plenty of Tea Party numbskulls available that would be better suited for ridiculous experimentation than using animals.

I'm thinking of becoming a member of PETA the more and more I hear how the douchebag scientific community exploits animals.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Those researchers should stop using mice as guinea pigs.

There is only so much shit they can learn from doping up mice.

Human beings aren't mice, so most of these studies are just crap anyway.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. +1 Agreed.