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Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study
Chickan writes "'A puff a day might keep Alzheimer's away, according to marijuana research by professor Gary Wenk and associate professor Yannic Marchalant of the Ohio State Department of Psychology. Wenk's studies show that a low dosage in the morning of a certain canavanoid, a component in marijuana, reversed memory loss in older rats' brains. In his study, an experimental group of old rats received a dosage, and a control group of rats did not. The old rats that received the drugs performed better on memory tests, and the drug slowed and prevented brain cell death.' My fine university's dollars at work!" Maybe it works even better in combination with brain-preserving sips of coffee.
I have yet to hear/see a rational reason why marijuana is still illegal.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
Cannabis/Marijuana is carcinogenic, and about four times as carcinogenic as tobacco.
They say that if tobacco were "discovered" today it would be outlawed straight away.
Alcohol has serious long-term health effects too, but in the short term it also leads to intoxication and injury and death by accidents. Not just road accidents either. That would be banned as well.
Really, the banning of all drugs is absurd. In an ideal world, adults would be responsible for their own actions and deemed wise enough to decide for themselves what and what not to ingest into their own bodies, and for their actions while under the influence of those substances. However, we live in a conservative, irrational, authoritarian world. And besides, have you seen the shockingly childish and ignorant behaviour of many adults?
Stick Men
yeah, cause we all know how good acetaminophen is for your liver, how good ibuprofen is for your digestive track not to mention how good opiods[/ates] are for your brain but thankfully they're completely non-addictive and nobody's ever died from overdose...
please tell me you're a troll...
Marijuana is memory enhancing? What?
No it's just that in the rat's the puff they are not able to measure any memory loss with aging because they already lost it.
There's a huge difference between "memory" and "cognative skill". To operate at a rat, requires a lot of different skills. Huge chunks of their brain are devoted to 0) fleaing predators 1) not eating poison 2) navigating and memorizing paths by smell and touch, not sight or time.
it's entirely plausible that different drugs could shift the relative effort in these areas and improve their skills in other areas. FOr example, perhaps they are less perpetually afraid and thus better able to concentrate on memorization.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
So, you can swap possible long-term memory loss for probable short-term memory loss. I'll wait for the large, double-blind study after they've isolated what exactly in the marijuana, if anything, reduces the risk of Alzheimer's. Meanwhile, there have been recent reports that coffee and red wine could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's. Seems like a safer, not to mention legal, alternative to experimenting on yourself by breathing smoke. Most doctors will agree that any smoking is harmful, and before you say that it can be eaten or steeped like tea, carcinogens can still cause cancer even if not smoked.
Make love, not reality television.
So you are saying that illegal-to-drive-while-baked is difficult to enforce.
That utterly fails to justify making it illegal to use when not driving.
You are merely punishing the law-abiding citizens because a *different law* is difficult to enforce (and will be broken by the criminals anyway).
That is irrational.
I'm not following your logic. Tobacco and alcohol seem to be getting taxed just fine, and marijuana isn't any easier to process than either of them.
The problem with the current legal status of marijuana it that legitimate medical research is hampered. Sure, there is some medical research happening but nowhere as much as there could be. There are many components of marijuana that are not involved with getting you high and these components may have medical benefits. The problem is that we just don't know about them because of all the hysteria generated by "Reefer Madness". We need a calm and rational investigation about all the components of marijuana.
check your vocabulary
"I only speak the truth"
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(A) is true. Not that I am in favor of hand-holding nanny-state government, mind you. Drug prohibition stifles the economy.
It's a bit like running FSCK on your brain
I know that this is a good thing, but it still reminds me of those old DARE ads...
Your brain is not a computer.
marijuana is not hemp. hemp is not marijuana. confusing them and rewriting history is not going to help get marijuana legalized today. so why are you so hellbent on rewriting history?
the point, as far i understand it, as far as i want it, as far as i think you want it, is that marijuana, today, should be legal, right?
then why do you think historical revisionism is going to help us do that?
it is propaganda and lies to to say that hemp and maijuana share the same history in the united states. they have ocmpletely different uses. confounding the two plants and creating a historical lie about founding fathers toking weed does not advance marijuana's image today. in fact, it looks kind of weird and desperate, as no one serious about their history believes it, because its bullshit
there was no libertarian marijuana utopia in the american past, ever. there were, in fact, pretty hard core puritans in the american past. the same puritanical movements that founded this country also gave birth to the temperance movement that culminated in prohibition in the 1920s. so do you still really believe anything that can be found in american history is any help to the marijuana legqalization movement today? historical truth: there's nothing in american history that suggests friendliness to marijuana. really. please understand this, and move past the bullshit revisionism attempt of yours. at best, you're a bad unconvincing propagandizer. thats not what the marijuana lebalization movement needs
marijuana is not hemp. hemp is not marijuana
please stop trying to confound the history of hemp in the united states and trying to somehow in desperation pull out some bullshit rationalization for the legalization of marijuana today from the american past
marijuana should be legal. the history of hemp does not help that cause. get it right
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
you seriously consider this substantative proof george washington used cannabis as a drug?
really?
look, here's the truth: washington smoked doobage.... or: washington never smoked the stuff. either way: COMPLETELY IMMATERIAL TO THE TASK AT HAND. which is, get marijuana legal now
unfortunately, there seems to be this weird quasireligious sort, like yourself, who believes this goal is achieved by proving that the american past was some sort of drug utopia, and all modern anti-drug efforts are strictly the product of some capitalist corporate conspiracy straight out of a bad hollywood movie
fucking insane
#1: the american past is chocka-block with theological fascists, puritans
#2: the modern opposition to drug use is based on fears of drug addiction, primarily. which is a 100% valid concern with any drug, but completely wrong when it comes to marijuana. you convince people who are concerned about marijuana by educating them that marijuana is DIFFERENT
but you can't educate decent folk about how marijuana is DIFFERENT when you are dealing with loud ignorant voices arguing for marijuana legalization that ALL drugs should be legal too. decent folk know thi sis bullshit, because they know something like methamphetamine should NEVER be considered in the same breadth as marijuana, no matte rhow little they know about marijuana, they at least know that drugs are DIFFERENT
so how does marijuana remain illegal forever? with nitwits who wish to confound marijuana with drugs mike methamphetmaine, cocaine, heroin: drugs which are orders of magnitude more addictive, and, if ever made legal, should in no way have ANYTHING to do with marijuana legalization
meanwhile, if you focus on the PHARAMCOLOGICAL FACTS of marijuana, marijuana will eventually be legalized out of common fucking sense, since it is barely addictive. alcohol is many times more harmful to the human body than marijuana, for one, and many times more addictive
if marijuana is not legalized, it is because of the very loud, very dumb voices who wish to conflate marijuana legalization with part of a larger "all drugs should be free dude" head in the sand bullshit mentality, or part of some bizarre fanboy historical ficiton revisionist propaganda
that's really the fucking truth
want to make marijuana legal?
1. stop conflating it with other drugs
2. stop rewriting history
if you can do neither thing, all of your rhetorical efforts serve to keep marijuana illegal by convincing anyone sane listening to you that marijuana legalization proponents are wack jobs
REALLY
focus on pharamcological facts
FORGET OTHER DRUGS
FORGET RETARDED HISTORICAL FANTASY SEQUENCES
if you can't do that?
marijuana legalization is doomed
by showing that marijuana leglization proponents are fruitcakes, rather than sane, common sense oriented folks. COMMON SENSE dictatates marijuana should be legal. so stick to common sense, and forget your ideological grudges and larger issues. because you definitely have issues
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it