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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.
Because it's a drug and then you become a junkie and kill people.
And I'd really like that reason to be just a joke.
Because the burden of proof is on those that believe that it's harmless rather than those that don't believe it to be safe. Which is just the way that it should be.
There really isn't that much evidence to support the idea that legalization is the appropriate course of action. At this point with so little evidence in hand, I wouldn't expect a proper assessment to be completed for at least another 20 years. But I could be wrong about that.
Plus there's the part where pot smokers are willing to lie cheat and basically make up evidence to justify things like medicinal marijuana. Yes it does work, but come on, pretending like Marinol doesn't exist and insisting on useless and vague regulations is just immature.
lol "fleaing" predators, dude. Check your syntax.
The path to enlightenment is truly through homemade drugs!
The Jews want to decrease the IQ of the American population by keeping them stoned so they can stay in power forever.
"The New Age. The New Beginning."
I did, and no dictionary has any definition for flea as a verb. Flee, perhaps, but not flea (not even meaning "to give fleas to", which would be a strange thing for rats brains to be devoted to anyway).
The path to enlightenment is truly through homemade drugs!