The reserchers of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California says that from the results of their tests, it seems that the THC, the main active substance of marijuana and hashish, is efficient in blocking an enzyme in the brain that causes plaques to form. From this research it seems that the THC is many times more efficient than the drugs that are currently for sale. “I’m not at all suggesting you smoke pot, but I think it could have strong implications that molecules like THC could prevent fibrils or plaque formation” Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry and immunology at Scripps. Doctor Janda is for sure an unbiased source, and he’s working on developing vaccines against nicotine and cocaine.
The researchers believe they’ve found a way THC can directly impact Alzheimer’s disease pathology. The tests have been made only in the test tube, but Janda and his team are ready to go one step further. “The definitive study would be to get animals that have been bred to have early-onset Alzheimer’s and look at the long-term effects of chronic THC administration” concludes Janda.
This morning we were surprised to read this article. The are thousands or millions of bullshits and fake myths about cannabis and marijuana nowadays. But we couldn’t imagine that a group of supposed “scientists” arrive to this conclusion, that the genes that “The genes that make you prone to illegal drug abuse are different from those that cause dependence on legal substances like alcohol and nicotine”. Obviously, why we didn’t think about it before? The people that make laws do nothing else than reflecting what our bodies already knows, illegal drugs are bad! And politicians don’t care about the money that they receive by lobbies and corporations, they only care about our health. Maybe they should explain to us what kind of substances they were using during these research, but not into the test tube, but on themselves!
Disinformation and misinformation are common word if used together with the words cannabis or marijuana, but when we read this article we found difficult do not laugh. A New Zeeland “expert” wrote:
“The analysis found that heavy cannabis users were also more likely to be violent, get involved in fights, ride in cars being driven dangerously, have unprotected sex, be clinically depressed and attempt suicide.”
Maybe this “doctor” have made just one mistake, replacing the word “alcohol” with “cannabis”. In every case, this people should be kicked out of every scientific community faster than lightspeed. Idiot!!!
The opinion of many scientists is, Cannabinoids and endocannabinoids are a treasure which waits to be discovered. A beautiful article on sciencedaily.com underlines the extreme importance of the cannabinoids as therapy for deseases which we don’t have a therapy right now, and yet they involve millions of people, most of them living in the richest and most advanced countries. The article analyze the researches of the last 15 years,with these conclusions:
(source: sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071014163644.htm)
