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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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Libertarian ping?
1 posted on 10/19/2006 1:43:02 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

May also means may not. So what?


2 posted on 10/19/2006 1:44:17 PM PDT by caisson71
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To: Fractal Trader

How would you know?


3 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.)
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To: Fractal Trader
Surprise surprise!

Destroying ones brain cells with dope, preempts the effect of Alzheimers.

4 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.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Great! Now you won't forget what you had for lunch because you're ill, but because you're stoned.


5 posted on 10/19/2006 1:45:30 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Fractal Trader

What about freon?


6 posted on 10/19/2006 1:47:16 PM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: johnny7

Oh, dude.

Back in the day.......


7 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...)
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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.


8 posted on 10/19/2006 1:48:44 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: traviskicks

ping


9 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)
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To: Fractal Trader

Shouldn't it be "medical ping"?


10 posted on 10/19/2006 1:49:20 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Wolfie

ping


11 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)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
Yeah, good ideaa. Cool.

What were we talkin' about again?

12 posted on 10/19/2006 1:50:31 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

That's not fair as it would be targeting CommiecRATs and Liberaltarians.


13 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.)
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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.


14 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.)
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To: Fractal Trader

"I posted this once before?! Oh, wow, man."


15 posted on 10/19/2006 1:52:00 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: CougarGA7

16 posted on 10/19/2006 1:52:16 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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To: AppyPappy
How would you know?

Well, obviously if the subject diplayed memory loss it'd be a...uh...what was the question again?

17 posted on 10/19/2006 1:53:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: caisson71

It might make it so you don't remember that you forgot, tho.


18 posted on 10/19/2006 1:56:41 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

19 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.)
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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

20 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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