Cannabis derivative may help Alzheimer's patients

[jabez]

NATIONAL - Using marijuana to help improve memory may seem like an oxymoron, because the drug is known to cause short-term memory loss. But experiments on mice have shown the drug can actually improve an Alzheimer's patient's memory. And there are now plans to begin trials on humans.

 

A plant so controversial for its mind altering qualities - cannabis - better known as marijuana. But it's exciting experts about its possible clinical benefits.

 

One of the compounds in the plant is about to be tested in human trials to see if it can delay the onset of memory loss. Professor Tony Moffat says, "Cannabis as it is normally smoked has mind-blowing properties and there are compounds in there which has these hallucinogenic properties. However, some of the indications for Alzheimer's in a mouse model is just a single compound that's used from cannabis plant material which is extracted and it can stop the memory loss. Now if you take that single compound and apply it to humans in clinical trials, we could prove for those 400,000 Alzheimer's patients that it could be used for those."

 

Studies of mice have shown that the cannabis derivative, which is not hallucinogenic, can prevent the progression to memory loss of Alzheimer's disease.

 

For patients with this devastating degenerative condition, the chance to take part in the clinical trial may offer their best hope. Dr. Suzanne Sorenson of the Alzheimer's Society says, "I'm sure there will be people who want to enter the trial. The treatment opportunities for Alzheimer's disease are so few, it is incurable. The drugs that exist at the moment aren't suitable for everybody. So there being other drugs available, I'm sure will be a positive thing for patients."

 

So it's interesting that medicine to protect nerve cells in the brain may be made from from a plant known to be damaging to the mind.

 

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8006525

[medcanaware]

Whoops, sorry Jabez, I've posted a subject about Medical Cannabis and Alzheimers as well. Unfortunately, (being early in the morning), I didn't notice you had already started a thread on this subject. Once again, sorry. (Medcanaware)

[Radic]

very sus

missimformation mixed with fact

very hard to comprehend

 

 

Using marijuana to help improve memory may seem like an oxymoron

 

No

not at all

dr joan belo proved THC improves Memory

check for your self if you can be bothered to straighten out for a test

take 1 straight

and

next 1 well irey

c 4 yah self

stats and science is a load of crap really

what only concerns you only you can tell

who cares what the effects pon mice is

or other people for that matter

how it effects you is the only ting that is crucial

seen

so do the test yah self

and find out fe real how it effects your memory

 

So it's interesting that medicine to protect nerve cells in the brain may be made from from a plant known to be damaging to the mind

Knowm to dammaging to the mind

worng

in fact

THC is known cause the brain to grow brain cells

resepter sites in paticular

 

very sus

 

i think their results will also show be byest too

[grok]

stats and science is a load of crap really

what only concerns you only you can tell

who cares what the effects pon mice is

or other people for that matter

how it effects you is the only ting that is crucial

yep...personal experience is something that you know..not something memorised from some book/course that may or may not be true for you..although intelligence nowadays is basically decided by how much you decided to train your memory and memorise facts from 'school/science/media...basically all external to the self..

 

as for memory loss and alzheimers ...well from one point of view it's irrelevant since every memory you have ever experienced is available in your subconcious and can be recalled...... via hypnosis for example. under hypnosis people can tell you what they had for breakfast and what colour undies they wore on their first day of kindergarden.

 

from another point of view...we all have a built in memory fogging device..that only remembers things important to that individuals understanding of life...why do we have that?...... and why isn't it working properly for alzheimers sufferers would be an interesting question to ponder whilst being stoned and in a philisophical frame of mind.

 

..and yet i can see the point of view that wants to help others..people with alzheimers improve their memory...so that they can function better in todays paradigm. perhaps cannabliss can help.

 

perhaps smoking weed and getting short term memory loss is similair to how someone with Alzheimers feels...perhaps that can lead to the ability to relate to the person on one level... relating or understanding someones viewpoint due to a similair experience could lead to compassion..

 

..compassion is a type of love. love heals all wounds and if we all felt enough of it perhaps we could cure all physical and mental diseases...perhaps!!...me stoned and waxing lyrical again...anyways.. love and to y'all

[Radic]

short term memory loss happens to straights too

even worse than with cannabis smokers

true

why???

cause as the blessard scientist Dr Joan Belo proved

cannabis improves memory.

including short term memory

if you get short term memory loss when you are stoned

you will get it worse is you stop smoking.

so dont stop now

maka spliff

[PeaceGrow]

The medical industrial complex at work. Find something natural that has medical properties, process it until its in a chemical form then sell it to the idiots that believe it is better than the original plant. Idiots will take the medicine and still believe cannabis is bad.

[loves420]

In my state of Oregon, we have medical mj and can add medical conditions. Agitation due to Alzheimer's disease was recently added.

 

333-008-0090

 

Addition of Qualifying Diseases or Medical Conditions

 

(1) The Department shall accept a written petition from any person requesting that a particular disease or condition be included among the diseases and conditions that qualify as debilitating medical conditions under section 333-008-0010 of these rules and be added to the list.

 

(2) The Department shall, within 14 days of receipt of the petition, send a letter by certified mail requesting the petitioner to provide, if possible:

 

(a) An explanation for why the condition should be included;

 

( Any literature supporting the addition of the condition to the list;

 

© Letters of support from physicians or other licensed health care professionals knowledgeable about the condition; and,

 

(d) Suggestions for potential expert panel members.

 

(3) The State Public Health Officer or designee may make a final determination that a petition is frivolous and deny the petition without further review.

 

(4) If the petition is not denied under section (3) of this rule, the Department shall appoint an expert panel of five to seven individuals to review a petition. The members of the panel shall include the State Public Health Officer or designee, other physicians licensed under ORS 677, at least one patient, at least one patient advocate, and other professionals knowledgeable about the condition being considered.

 

(a) If the petitioner so desires, she or he shall be given the opportunity to address the panel in person or by telephone.

 

( If the petitioner so desires, his or her confidentiality shall be strictly maintained.

 

(5) The Department shall submit the written petition to the expert panel, which shall make recommendations to the Department regarding approval or denial.

 

(a) The members of the panel may examine medical research pertaining to the petitioned condition, and may gather information (in person or in writing) from other parties knowledgeable about the condition being considered.

 

( The panel members will submit individual recommendations to the State Public Health Officer, and the meetings of the panel will not be considered to be public hearings.

 

(6) The Department will make a final determination on a petition within 180 days of receipt of the petition.

 

(7) Denial of a petition shall be considered a final Department action subject to judicial review.

 

(8) In cases where the condition in a person's petition is the same as, or is, as determined by the Department's State Public Health Officer, substantially equivalent to a condition that has already been denied in a previous determination, the Department may similarly deny the new petition unless new scientific research supporting the request is brought forward.

 

 

 

 

4) "Debilitating medical condition" means:

 

(a) Cancer, glaucoma, agitation due to Alzheimer's disease, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or treatment for these conditions;

 

( A medical condition or treatment for a medical condition that produces, for a specific patient, one or more of the following:

 

(i) Cachexia;

 

(ii) Severe pain;

 

(iii) Severe nausea;

 

(iv) Seizures, including but not limited to seizures caused by epilepsy; or

 

(v) Persistent muscle spasms, including but not limited to spasms caused by multiple sclerosis; or

 

© Any other medical condition or treatment for a medical condition adopted by the Department by rule or approved by the Department pursuant to a petition submitted under OAR 333-008-0090.

 

 

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/rules/OARs_3...33/333_008.html

[Radic]

ireyness arise

yes i

hafe love dat

forward ever

oregon

 

yo

whats de word pon de street there

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do you tink he will get in????

he said he will end the drug war

check it pon utube

 

long as he dont end up like kennedy

we got the best chance we have ever had if he does win

i am very interested

so are the rastas

new tunes are being released everyday in support of obamma

utube has soooo many