Having smoked (and inhaled and held in) my quota of reefer over the years, I was… how shall I say it… blown away to read the news that marijuana may stave off Alzheimer’s disease. What’s going on here? Two tokes of good weed and you could barely remember your name. This is the answer to Alzheimer’s? If only Jerry Garcia were still alive.
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7 Comments
1. dougf:Finally a good-news story.
Where are those papers anyway ?
Legalize It.
Oct 6, 2006 - 6:07 am 2. Vulgorilla:Not too surprising. I suspect that there may be a valid medicinal uses for most of the illegal drugs, its just that we don’t know what they are yet. Seems to me that there was another use for marijuana concerning glaucoma, but would have to go research it.
Oct 6, 2006 - 7:21 am 3. John Lynch:sigh.
Guess I better start putting Twinkies ™ in the retirement account. Now where did I put that passbook?
Oct 6, 2006 - 7:32 am 4. goesh:Right on, man! As far as street drugs being used for medicinal purposes, I think a massive dose of heroin in the arm of a convicted murderer would be a nice way to send them into eternity so very far away from the rest of us.
Oct 6, 2006 - 8:17 am 5. Larry J:Maybe it works like this: The more stoned you are when you’re young, the less of your brain is used up when you reach old age. Pot, while relatively harmless, sure doesn’t require people to use much of their gray matter.
Oct 6, 2006 - 9:26 am 6. Lem:William F. Buckley held a firing line debate some years ago on the pros and cons of legalization. (I thought the pros won) As far as I know he still for legalization. Now in his mid 70ís, I would be surprised however if he started crediting pot for his intellectual staying power.
Oct 6, 2006 - 11:10 am 7. Gerard Van der Leun:I just want to say this about tha
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