Marijuana Ingredient May Help Alzheimers

[Guest guest]

was reading... is one sure that it was the canabis an

not a doctered bag? there are some insidious souls

that ad stuff like fermaldahide or embalming fluid?

also i agree on educating but parents pass the buck..

canabis has been known to trigger paranoia if

overdone.

lonnie

bows back to hempriss

--- GaiaHemp <GaiaHemp

wrote:

>

> What happened to your son is what happened to some

people who drank booze

> when it was prohibited~ If it were legal, he may not

have been able to get

> it as easy anywhere on the streets and also if we

had a better educational

> system in America, like they have in Amsterdam, he

could have said " Know " t

> o

> drugs before he decided to smoke something he had no

idea he was actually

> smoking~ For young people are taught what Cannabis

is for in the UK, unlike

> children in America are just taught to say " No "

ratha than to " Know " what

> all herbs all for~ Teenagers get the chance to make

wise choices as to what

> they are going to do with Cannibas and with that

said, they normally choose

> to not do it so blindy as American teenagers do~

Your son was self

> medicating with something he had no bussiness

messing with~ It was very eas

> y

> and simple for him to get it on the streets because

it's unregulated~

>

> Hempress

>

>

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>

> psych doc

> 02/24/05 10:51:36

>

> Cc: ratans

> Re: Marijuana

Ingredient May Help

> Alzheimer's

>

>

>

>

> My son is still struggling to recover from marijuana

> induced psychosis. He smoked marijuana fr a year.

Its

> not so easy and simple.

> Ratan.

> --- HAH <GaiaHemp wrote:

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> > Wednesday, February 23, 2005

> > By Miranda HittiNew clues about Alzheimer’s

disease

> > (search) have emerged

> > from a Spanish study of marijuana. The drug’s

active

> > ingredients —

> > cannabinoids (search) — help prevent brain

problems

> > seen in Alzheimer’s, say

> > the scientists.

> > There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, which

> > progressively damages brain

> > areas involved in memory, judgment, language and

> > behavior. Alzheimer’s

> > disease is the most common form of mental decline,

> > or dementia (search), in

> > older adults.

> > The new study didn’t test cannabinoids on people

> > living with Alzheimer’s

> > disease. Instead, the researchers focused on human

> > brain tissue samples and

> > conducted cannabinoid experiments on rats.

> > The findings showed that “cannabinoids work both

to

> > prevent inflammation and

> > to protect the brain,” says researcher Maria de

> > Ceballos in a news release.

> > That “may set the stage for [cannabinoids’] use as

a

> > therapeutic approach

> > for [Alzheimer’s disease].”

> > A staff member at Madrid’s Cajal Institute, de

> > Ceballos conducted the study

> > with colleagues from nearby Complutense

University.

> > Their results appear in

> > the Feb. 23 edition of The Journal of

Neuroscience.

> > Marijuana, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the Human

Brain

> > The researchers studied human brain tissue

samples,

> > some of which were from

> > deceased Alzheimer’s patients and some from normal

> > brain tissue.

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