Marijuana may prevent Alzheimer's
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California found that marijuana's active ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, can prevent the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from breaking down more effectively than commercially marketed drugs.
THC is also more effective at blocking clumps of protein that can inhibit memory and cognition in Alzheimer's patients, the researchers reported in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.
Yet another useful property of marijuana. At some point the government is going to have to give up on ths one. The pretense that marijuana was dangerous was always thin, as more beneficial properties are found the whole things falls apart.
Jay
