There is an article recently posted about a comedian making fun of Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s Disease.
Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, published an open letter to actor and comedian Will Ferrell criticizing him for his upcoming role portraying her father suffering from Alzheimer’s.
Davis wrote to Ferrell, “Perhaps you have managed to retain some ignorance about Alzheimer’s and other versions of dementia. Perhaps if you knew more, you would not find the subject humorous.”She recounted the fear she saw in her father’s eyes and the trembling in his voice, as the disease overtook him.
And then we have this government report about the possible effects of cannabis on Alzheimer’s Disease.
At the treatment concentrations, no toxicity was observed and the CB1 receptor was not significantly upregulated. Additionally, low doses of THC can enhance mitochondria function and does not inhibit melatonin’s enhancement of mitochondria function. These sets of data strongly suggest that THC could be a potential therapeutic treatment option for Alzheimer’s disease through multiple functions and pathways.
Anecdotally people are already using cannabis to good effect against Alzheimer’s.
But before we get to anecdotes we have another research report.
New research published in The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease finds that administering cannabis extracts containing THC to Alzheimer’s patients helped relieve various symptoms of dementia, including agitation, aggression, apathy and delusions.
The small trial conducted by Israeli researchers studied 11 Alzheimer’s patients who were given medical cannabis oil containing THC over the course of four weeks. Of the 10 patients that completed the trial, researchers recorded “significant reduction” in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Researchers concluded that “adding medical cannabis oil to Alzheimer’s disease patients’ pharmacotherapy is a safe and promising treatment option.”
And one other thing. What is Alzheimer’s costing us?
During 2015, $226 billion was spent directly for AD care giving and medical expenses, of which well over half was covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
Dementia and Alzheimer’s are worsening epidemics, and the pharmaceutical industry has not provided real hope. One has to go outside of mainstream medicine’s pharmacopoeia to slow or reverse dementia and Alzheimer’s or other neurodegenerative diseases such as MS and Parkinson’s.
Here is an anecdote about how a woman treated her mother.
And finally: It is funny don’t you think? Reagan lost his mind to the War On Drugs.
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Ironic perhaps: but no, not funny at all.
One man who understood was Yakob Ravin, a Ukrainian émigré who in the summer of 1997 happened to be strolling with his grandson in Armand Hammer Park near Reagan’s California home. They happened to see the former President, out taking a walk. Mr Ravin went over and asked if he could take a picture of the boy and the President. When they got back home to Ohio, it appeared in the local newspaper, The Toledo Blade.
Ronald Reagan was three years into the decade-long twilight of his illness, and unable to recognize most of his colleagues from the Washington days. But Mr Ravin wanted to express his appreciation. “Mr President,” he said, “thank you for everything you did for the Jewish people, for Soviet people, to destroy the Communist empire.”
And somewhere deep within there was a flicker of recognition. “Yes,” said the old man, “that is my job.”
Mark Steyn, Dutch Courage, 8 June 2004
Evidently his job was to also wage a pogrom on Americans with unApproved habits.
It tarnishes his otherwise good record.
And let us not forget all the cancer patients who died prematurely from a lack of cannabinoid medicine.
He tried to get all references to cannabis working against cancer expunged.
In 1983 the Reagan/Bush Administration tried to persuade American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries, reports Jack Herer, who states, “We know that large amounts of information have since disappeared.”
https://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/marijuana-cures-cancer-us-government-has-known-since-1974/
If Reagan did it because he thought it was necessary to win the Cold War – fine.
Where is the movement to at minimum give those people medals?
happy vietnam war protestors victory day everyone!
Unhappy 100,000 to be killed by Vietnamese Communists day.
The word “ironic” should have been used instead of “funny.”
captain*arizona
happy vietnam war protestors victory day everyone!
Simon
Unhappy 100,000 to be killed by Vietnamese Communists .
Not to mention Cambodian Communists killing 2 million.
A recent visit to my hometown involved a discussion about ironies related to the Cold War.
There was a guy in my high school class who rubbed me the wrong way, perhaps because he was as caustic as he was bright. Call him BC. Our class went to see a play. BC thought it was an inspiring play. BC was also very irritated at a classmate that laughed throughout the play. As BC went around with a perpetual sneer on his face, this was a case of “Physician, heal thyself.” Another time, BC told us that his father had told him he didn’t care what BC thought, as long as BC’s hair was short. At the time I thought to myself, “Yeah, right. And if you tell your father you have joined the Klan or the CPUSA, he would have no problem with that?” Decades later, I did an info search on BC and his family. I found out that his father had spent a decade in the CPUSA- not as a mere member, but as an operative. Ironic, no?
Back in my hometown I met up with a classmate I hadn’t seen since high school, who drove an hour for the meet. As she and I had gone to school from Grades 1-12, we had a lot to discuss. I mentioned the crush I had in junior high on her best friend, a lovely Eurasian girl. Call her EG. I never followed up in high school on the crush, went on to other things. She told me that EG had a crush on BC in high school. EG’s mother had fled China after the 1949 Revolution. So you had the daughter of an Iron Curtain refugee- who had a crush on the son of a former CPUSA operative. Only in America.
Or the CCP killing 60 million.
I’ve spent time in those countries and Laos in the last decade. To me, the Cambodians old enough to remember Pol Pot’s rule and the Chinese old enough to remember the Cultural Revolution are very similar. Wary, slow to warm to, suspicious of motive. The Vietnamese are almost the exact opposite. Granted, I haven’t been north of Hue, but the Vietnamese were friendly and open and full of life. People have told me that Hanoi is beautiful but I wonder if the people are burnt out by the communist idiocracy there like they are in the PRC and Cambodia.
Ah. But we have a kinder gentler slavery so far. Bush pulled a counter coup on Reagan.
https://hotgas.net/2016/04/trillion-dollar-drug-war-scam/
Communism:
Over 100 million dead. Coming to a country near you!