This needs to be
understood yet before we dash off to experiment. The giant monkey in the Marijuana woodshed is
that it is presently debilitating to the juvenile human brain just when it is
attempting to learn as much as possible and possibly the worst possible time.
It may be
possible to engineer a juvenile safe concoction or even better a concoction
that actually improves those same effects.
Sure would be an improvement over coffee.
If marijuana
migrates to the e cigarette protocol then adding additional active ingredients
could work quite well. All this leads to
plausibly healthy use of these chemical tools.
I do not wish to
condone any of this but legalizing all this is inevitable in order to minimize
abuse. Once we win that battle and I
include cigarettes here, then we can address best practice and best choices
linked to known outcomes. Until now we
have lousy reporting and insecure dosage levels.
As well this
stuff is simply not going away. Imagine
a measured smoke that produced a mind blowing sexual orgasm every time without
physical intervention. Just how do you
propose to stop a product like that coming to market? That is the extreme but so what? Folks want this trip and we best make it safe
or we lose human productivity for sure.
Researchers
Solve Longtime Mystery Of How Marijuana Causes Memory Loss
REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
A new study suggests that over-the-counter
painkillers like Ibuprofen could prevent two debilitating side effects of
marijuana use — learning problems and memory loss — that
currently limit the drug's medical value.
In a study published in the journal Cell, researchers say they have pinpointed the molecular
pathways responsible for marijuana-induced memory problems.
The high you get from marijuana comes from a
chemical called Tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC. The chemical works by
interacting with receptors on brain cells called cannabinoid
receptors. Cannabinoid receptors are concentrated in many different
places in the brain. Their ubiquity is good and bad.
THC can bind with receptors that are responsible for
regulating relaxation, relieving pain, or suppressing nausea, which is why the
drug has been used to treat the symptoms of chemotherapy, epilepsy, anxiety,
and countless other ailments.
There are also cannabinoid receptors located in the
region of the brain involved in learning and memory, called the hippocampus.
When THC binds with cannabinoid receptors in the hippocampus it alters the way
information is processed and how memories are formed.
But in a study of mice, researchers were surprised
to find that THC increased the levels of an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2
(COX-2) in the hippocampus.
The COX-2 increase in the brain cells seems to turn
down memory-making abilities by decreasing the cell's ability to make
connections with other brain cells — and these connections are what
underlay our memories.
By stopping this activation of COX-2 the researchers
were able to restore the brain cells ability to connect with other cells. More
connections mean more memories.
Since over-the-counter pain relievers work by
deactivating COX-2 (thus lowering pain signals sent to the body), scientists
think they could be used to prevent the unwanted side effects of marijuana.
There are currently no FDA-approved effective
medications for prevention and treatment of marijuana-induced symptoms. This
discovery has the potential to broaden the use of medical marijuana for a wider
range of conditions.
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