A report has come out that Endocannabinoid Deficiency is likely a cause of Alzheimer’s Disease. In America we spend $200 billion a year on the disease. If cannabis can help, a LOT of people will be looking for a paycheck elsewhere. That is bad for business. In the short term.
A-beta, a substance suspected as a prime culprit in Alzheimer’s disease, may start impairing learning and memory long before plaques form in the brain.
A new study led by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine has implicated the blocking of endocannabinoids — signaling substances that are the brain’s internal versions of the psychoactive chemicals in marijuana and hashish — in the early pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
No wonder there is still so much opposition among some politicians to legalizing cannabis. It means fewer campaign donations from certain sources.
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Instapundit recently linked to a study that claimed Alzheimers seems to be related to changes in intestinal flora, Of course that could mean the little bugs just aren’t getting high enough. Anyway, if we see a significant reduction in alzheimers in states with legal pot we’ll know something.
Whatever the case, Good B complex supplements, high inositol lecithin and co enzyme Q10 all seem to help with brain health.
MMM,
There are quite a few anecdotal reports that cannabis helps.
There are anecdotal reports that astrology works. I need measurable, quantifiable and repeatable results.
Well of course. Measured results. As soon as the Feds stop saying “no medical value”.
It won’t be soon. Big Pharma currently has a lock on the Feds.