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Marijuana may cut risk of Alzheimer's
Reuters via Boston.com ^
| 19 October 2006
Posted on 10/19/2006 1:43:02 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Marijuana may help reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease by reducing inflammation in the brain, researchers reported yesterday.
Tests on rats indicated that a compound found in marijuana stopped the loss of brain cells caused by inflammation and improved the animals' memories.
The findings, presented to a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Atlanta, may help explain some studies that suggest people who regularly smoked marijuana in the 1960s and '70s are now less likely than others the same age to develop Alzheimer's.
[SNIP]
``The baby boomers are just getting old enough now that we can just see this," he said in a telephone interview.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addiction; callingdrleroy; leroybannedforlife; leroywasapottroll; libertarians; mrleroybait; wodlist
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Libertarian ping?
To: Fractal Trader
May also means may not. So what?
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:44:17 PM PDT
by
caisson71
To: Fractal Trader
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:45:07 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Fractal Trader
Surprise surprise!
Destroying ones brain cells with dope, preempts the effect of Alzheimers.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:45:22 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(If you know how many firearms you have, you don't have enough yet.)
To: Fractal Trader
Great! Now you won't forget what you had for lunch because you're ill, but because you're stoned.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:45:30 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Fractal Trader
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:47:16 PM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: johnny7
Oh, dude.
Back in the day.......
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:48:23 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: Fractal Trader
This same news was on Free Republic recently. I had said then that the U.S. should nationally legalize pot and then distribute it the night before the general elections so that the "pro-pot people" would forget to go and vote.
To: traviskicks
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:49:14 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: Fractal Trader
Shouldn't it be "medical ping"?
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:49:20 PM PDT
by
Mariner
To: Wolfie
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:49:29 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
Yeah, good ideaa. Cool.
What were we talkin' about again?
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:50:31 PM PDT
by
freedomson
(Tagline comment removed by moderator)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
That's not fair as it would be targeting CommiecRATs and Liberaltarians.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:50:50 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(If you know how many firearms you have, you don't have enough yet.)
To: Fractal Trader
I'm not sure I would want a job that consisted of sitting around and getting rats stoned.
The last thing I want to see is a rat jonesing for a twinkee.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:51:15 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(This tag line will be commercial free for the remainder of this thread.)
To: Fractal Trader
"I posted this once before?! Oh, wow, man."
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:52:00 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace begins in the womb.)
To: CougarGA7
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:52:16 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
To: AppyPappy
How would you know? Well, obviously if the subject diplayed memory loss it'd be a...uh...what was the question again?
To: caisson71
It might make it so you don't remember that you forgot, tho.
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:56:41 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
10/19/2006 1:57:25 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(This tag line will be commercial free for the remainder of this thread.)
To: Fractal Trader
Hey man, I have smoked pot all of my life, and I just wanted to say....uh....er....oh, I forgot.
I'll get back to ya
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posted on
10/19/2006 2:03:25 PM PDT
by
lormand
(0 to 10,000,000 people read my posts everyday)
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