Marijuana Compound (THC) Removes Alzheimer’s-Related Protein From Nerve Cells
With the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease expected to almost triple in the United States by 2050, there is an urgent need to identify effective treatments for the condition.
Now, a new study suggests marijuana may hold the key to such a treatment.
Published in the journal Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, the study reveals how a compound present in marijuana triggered the removal of beta-amyloid protein from nerve cells, or neurons.
Beta-amyloid is considered a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease; the protein clumps together in the brain of people with the condition, forming plaques.
Studies have suggested these beta-amyloid plaques disrupt communication between neurons in the brain, which leads to symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s, such as impaired memory.
Preventing beta-amyloid accumulation in the brain might seem like an obvious way to tackle Alzheimer’s, but because researchers are still unclear of the exact role the protein plays in the disease process, achieving such a feat is easier said than done.
Paper:
http://www.nature.com/articles/npjamd201612
Article:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/311347.php
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Several chronic diseases are likely a consequence of cannabis not growing freely. The prohibition is unnatural; and highly stigmatizing. The reason for the prohibition is 100% racist.
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ReplyDelete(provided judicial hygiene is otherwise respected, of course. The judge risks being appealed using of his own (by then past) clement decisions as jurisprudence against a harsher later sentencing in some comparable enough case. And the appeals judge would be free to laud the provided jurisprudence and their author, of course).
I would like decaputation for judgement that leads to or could lead to miscarriage of justice. It would get rid of stuck up judges, DAs, and gossip magazines in one go; not to mention the amount of prejudice brought on to people by the latter.
ReplyDeleteWhen the miscarriage of justice is the consequence of a mandatory minimum, it's the legislators or the voters, not the judges that are responsible for the mess
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