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**SuzieQ** lop guest User ID: 118257 09-19-2012 05:55 AM

Yet another reason it's demonized.

Could the active ingredient in marijuana, responsible for its characteristic “high,” help turn the tide against the accelerating Alzheimer’s epidemic?

A remarkable study published in the journal Molecular Pharmacology in 2006, found that this long vilified plant contains a compound with not one, but two therapeutic properties ideal for addressing both the surface symptom (memory problems) and root cause (brain plaque) of Alzheimer’s disease. This is an ironic finding, considering that the prevailing stereotype is that using marijuana “fries” the brain, leading to debilitating memory issues.

Researchers discovered that the psychoactive component of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), both “competitively inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as well as prevents AChE-induced amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) aggregation.”

On the first account, THC’s ability to inhibit the AChE enzyme, is not unlike the mechanism of action behind most Alzheimer’s drugs on the market today. Drugs like donepezil (trade name Aricept), for instance, by targeting and inhibiting the brain enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE), result in an increase in brain levels of this neurotransmitter, which in turn, results in symptom reduction, i.e. improved memory. Donepezil, however, is riddled with controversy due its well-known association with seizures, which likely reflects its intrinsic neurotoxicity.

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/09/19/marij...lzheimers/

**Geogal**

not surprising... sadly enough

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 121957 09-19-2012 06:00 AM

I've also read marijuana actually regrows brain cells, can anyone confirm this?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 121957 09-19-2012 06:06 AM

It shouldn't be demonized the way it is.. Alchohol is 10x worse for you than marijuana. Zero deaths from marijuna overdose. You can actually drive while on it.. No fighting over stupid shit.. No hangover that wastes the next day.. Not physically addictive.. Makes people smarter instead of dumber IMO..

It even slows down the spread of cancer!

And yet it's illegal why?

Because a long time ago the cotton companies didn't want the competetion of Hemp (marijuana) which grows easier and can make clothing, rope and other things.

Who is the government to tell me what is safe and what is not? When they start labeling GMO foods and carcinogenic ingredients in food then maybe i'll listen.. Can't forget flouride in the water too.

**SuzieQ** lop guest User ID: 118257 09-19-2012 06:16 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

It shouldn't be demonized the way it is.. Alchohol is 10x worse for you than marijuana. Zero deaths from marijuna overdose. You can actually drive while on it.. No fighting over stupid shit.. No hangover that wastes the next day.. Not physically addictive.. Makes people smarter instead of dumber IMO..

It even slows down the spread of cancer!

And yet it's illegal why?

Because a long time ago the cotton companies didn't want the competetion of Hemp (marijuana) which grows easier and can make clothing, rope and other things.

Who is the government to tell me what is safe and what is not? When they start labeling GMO foods and carcinogenic ingredients in food then maybe i'll listen.. Can't forget flouride in the water too.

The cancer "industry" is a huge money maker. Plus, we can't go cutting into Big Pharma's profits, can we? Also, your point about hemp is extremely valid. GMO cotton is, of course, big business for Monsanto. We must protect the corporations at all costs, right? After all, they're "people" too. Anon

**eclipsed**

i think it was the PETROLEUM companies that got the upper hand.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 121957 09-19-2012 06:24 AM

SuzieQ Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
It shouldn't be demonized the way it is.. Alchohol is 10x worse for you than marijuana. Zero deaths from marijuna overdose. You can actually drive while on it.. No fighting over stupid shit.. No hangover that wastes the next day.. Not physically addictive.. Makes people smarter instead of dumber IMO..

It even slows down the spread of cancer!

And yet it's illegal why?

Because a long time ago the cotton companies didn't want the competetion of Hemp (marijuana) which grows easier and can make clothing, rope and other things.

Who is the government to tell me what is safe and what is not? When they start labeling GMO foods and carcinogenic ingredients in food then maybe i'll listen.. Can't forget flouride in the water too.

The cancer "industry" is a huge money maker. Plus, we can't go cutting into Big Pharma's profits, can we? Also, your point about hemp is extremely valid. GMO cotton is, of course, big business for Monsanto. We must protect the corporations at all costs, right? After all, they're "people" too.

I've had that thought a few times aswell about the cancer industry.. I believe if health care was about the people, health care companies wouldn't be bringing in billions in profits, they should be making just enough to pay the hospital staff, pay for equipment and the rest should go back to the patients to lower costs.

**SuzieQ** lop guest User ID: 118257 09-19-2012 06:35 AM

eclipsed Wrote:

i think it was the PETROLEUM companies that got the upper hand.

Of course. The Rockefeller family got their start in the oil business (Standard Oil). By the early part of the 20th century The Rockefeller Foundation began donating money to medical universities with the stipulation they teach medicine, the "Rockefeller Way". That meant you don't ever "cure" an illness. Instead, you "treat" it with pharmaceuticals. Guess which family sits on the board of every pharmaceutical company today? Guess which family is the head of The American Cancer Society, which for at least 5 decades has promised, "There's a cure, just around the corner", while countless millions have died from cancer.

Guess which plant has been proven to cure cancer........

m lop guest User ID: 121821 09-19-2012 06:39 AM

SuzieQ Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
It shouldn't be demonized the way it is.. Alchohol is 10x worse for you than marijuana. Zero deaths from marijuna overdose. You can actually drive while on it.. No fighting over stupid shit.. No hangover that wastes the next day.. Not physically addictive.. Makes people smarter instead of dumber IMO..

It even slows down the spread of cancer!

And yet it's illegal why?

Because a long time ago the cotton companies didn't want the competetion of Hemp (marijuana) which grows easier and can make clothing, rope and other things.

Who is the government to tell me what is safe and what is not? When they start labeling GMO foods and carcinogenic ingredients in food then maybe i'll listen.. Can't forget flouride in the water too.

The cancer "industry" is a huge money maker. Plus, we can't go cutting into Big Pharma's profits, can we? Also, your point about hemp is extremely valid. GMO cotton is, of course, big business for Monsanto. We must protect the corporations at all costs, right? After all, they're "people" too.

**SuzieQ** lop guest User ID: 118257 09-19-2012 06:43 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

SuzieQ Wrote:
LoP Guest Wrote:
It shouldn't be demonized the way it is.. Alchohol is 10x worse for you than marijuana. Zero deaths from marijuna overdose. You can actually drive while on it.. No fighting over stupid shit.. No hangover that wastes the next day.. Not physically addictive.. Makes people smarter instead of dumber IMO..

It even slows down the spread of cancer!

And yet it's illegal why?

Because a long time ago the cotton companies didn't want the competetion of Hemp (marijuana) which grows easier and can make clothing, rope and other things.

Who is the government to tell me what is safe and what is not? When they start labeling GMO foods and carcinogenic ingredients in food then maybe i'll listen.. Can't forget flouride in the water too.

The cancer "industry" is a huge money maker. Plus, we can't go cutting into Big Pharma's profits, can we? Also, your point about hemp is extremely valid. GMO cotton is, of course, big business for Monsanto. We must protect the corporations at all costs, right? After all, they're "people" too.

I've had that thought a few times as well about the cancer industry.. I believe if health care was about the people, health care companies wouldn't be bringing in billions in profits, they should be making just enough to pay the hospital staff, pay for equipment and the rest should go back to the patients to lower costs.

"Healthcare" is Orwellian double speak for "Sickness Care". Sadly, it's one of the few money making "industries" left in this country. This is all at the expense of human life.

**mstra** lop guest User ID: 121821 09-19-2012 06:49 AM

m Wrote:

SuzieQ Wrote:
LoP Guest Wrote:
It shouldn't be demonized the way it is.. Alchohol is 10x worse for you than marijuana. Zero deaths from marijuna overdose. You can actually drive while on it.. No fighting over stupid shit.. No hangover that wastes the next day.. Not physically addictive.. Makes people smarter instead of dumber IMO..

It even slows down the spread of cancer!

And yet it's illegal why?

Because a long time ago the cotton companies didn't want the competetion of Hemp (marijuana) which grows easier and can make clothing, rope and other things.

Who is the government to tell me what is safe and what is not? When they start labeling GMO foods and carcinogenic ingredients in food then maybe i'll listen.. Can't forget flouride in the water too.

The cancer "industry" is a huge money maker. Plus, we can't go cutting into Big Pharma's profits, can we? Also, your point about hemp is extremely valid. GMO cotton is, of course, big business for Monsanto. We must protect the corporations at all costs, right? After all, they're "people" too.

Apologies for the double post.

Cannibis being illegal had and has nothing to do with cotton. It was competition for the tree-pulp paper industry that Willam R Hearst owned. In the late 1930s a machine was invented that could easily separate hemp fibres from hemp pith and pulp, a job that traditionally was done by hand and was extremely labor intensive; like cleaning cotton was before the invention of the cotton (en)gin(e) There was a photo and article or perhaps the new machine was on the front cover of a major magazine, I think Popular Mechanics.

At the time, Hearst was heavily invested in paper made from softwood trees as the stock for printing his newspapers. Cheap hemp fiber would have given him some very strong competition, and would have been much better paper as well.

I have also read that DuPont corporation was behind the ban on hemp, because of their patents on nylon rope and other synthetic fibers.

Nothing to do with cotton though.
Heartflowers

**SuzieQ** lop guest User ID: 118257 09-19-2012 07:07 AM

mstra Wrote:

m Wrote:
SuzieQ Wrote:
The cancer "industry" is a huge money maker. Plus, we can't go cutting into Big Pharma's profits, can we? Also, your point about hemp is extremely valid. GMO cotton is, of course, big business for Monsanto. We must protect the corporations at all costs, right? After all, they're "people" too.

Apologies for the double post.

Cannibis being illegal had and has nothing to do with cotton. It was competition for the tree-pulp paper industry that Willam R Hearst owned. In the late 1930s a machine was invented that could easily separate hemp fibres from hemp pith and pulp, a job that traditionally was done by hand and was extremely labor intensive; like cleaning cotton was before the invention of the cotton (en)gin(e) There was a photo and article or perhaps the new machine was on the front cover of a major magazine, I think Popular Mechanics.

At the time, Hearst was heavily invested in paper made from softwood trees as the stock for printing his newspapers. Cheap hemp fiber would have given him some very strong competition, and would have been much better paper as well.

I have also read that DuPont corporation was behind the ban on hemp, because of their patents on nylon rope and other synthetic fibers.

Nothing to do with cotton though.

Back then, yes you're correct. The Hearst publishing dynasty was one of the downfalls of hemp. Another prime example (before there were actual laws on the books), as corporations treated as people.

Today, we have a "new" player in the field with Monsanto and their GM cotton. Love your high count count 100% cotton sheets, like me? Well, you better make sure they're "organic" cotton.

Even before Monsanto, which started as a pesticide company, got into the world of GMO's, cotton was a crop which raped the land it was grown on and was full of pesticides. Now, farmers in India who let their livestock graze in the fields that were once planted with GM cotton are dropping dead (the livestock) at an alarming rate. There has also been an unidentified DNA structure, within GMO crops, which doesn't match anything "known" to most scientists.

Yeah, i'm going to catch pure hell for this...... but is it possible that unfamiliar DNA structure is at the root of modern Morgellon's Disease?

**quest** lop guest User ID: 76473 09-19-2012 07:26 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

I've also read marijuana actually regrows brain cells, can anyone confirm this?

http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-New-Stud...ion?page=1

http://budfacts.com/243/new-study-proves...formation/

- Quest. (for President.)

Not Insane!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 121960 09-19-2012 07:30 AM

Ironic indeed
A drug commonly know to all as having a short term memory loss effect
used to battle memory loss.......

sign me up...
what were we talking about again? *cough * Cough

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91621 09-19-2012 08:14 AM

Now I remember why I divorced my first husband in the late 1970s. He was a pothead.