{"id":578,"date":"2009-02-03T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=578"},"modified":"2009-02-03T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:23:13","slug":"marijuana-could-prevent-alzheimers-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/marijuana-could-prevent-alzheimers-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer&#8217;s, New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"generaltitle\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3><strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkey.org\/%7Etimothy\/\">timothy<\/a> on Tuesday January 27, @09:36AM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"details\"><strong>from the <strong>that&#8217;s-just-like-your-opinion-man<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"topic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=272\"> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Medicine\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicmedicine.gif\" alt=\"Medicine\" width=\"64\" height=\"80\" \/> <\/a> <a class=\"topic2\" href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=191\"> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Biotech\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicbiotech.gif\" alt=\"Biotech\" width=\"42\" height=\"65\" \/> <\/a> <a class=\"topic2\" href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=14\"> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Science\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicscience.gif\" alt=\"Science\" width=\"62\" height=\"75\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\">Chickan writes <em>&#8220;&#8216;A puff a day might keep Alzheimer&#8217;s away, according to marijuana research by professor Gary Wenk and associate professor Yannic Marchalant of the Ohio State Department of Psychology. Wenk&#8217;s studies show that a low dosage in the morning of a certain cannabinoid, a component in marijuana, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.thelantern.com\/media\/storage\/paper333\/news\/2009\/01\/27\/Campus\/Marijuana.Could.Prevent.Alzheimers-3598061.shtml\">reversed memory loss in older rats&#8217; brains<\/a>. In his study, an experimental group of old rats received a dosage, and a control group of rats did not. The old rats that received the drugs performed better on memory tests, and the drug slowed and prevented brain cell death.&#8217; My fine university&#8217;s dollars at work!&#8221;<\/em> Maybe it works even better in combination with <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/01\/16\/1347230&amp;tid=272\">brain-preserving sips of coffee<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 27, @09:36AM from the that&#8217;s-just-like-your-opinion-man dept. Chickan writes &#8220;&#8216;A puff a day might keep Alzheimer&#8217;s away, according to marijuana research by professor Gary Wenk and associate professor Yannic Marchalant of the Ohio State Department of Psychology. Wenk&#8217;s studies show that a low dosage in the morning of a certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,263],"tags":[325,540,26,542,539,541],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-hemp-and-ganja","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-brain-chemistry","tag-marijuana","tag-ohio-stae-university","tag-preventing-alzheimers","tag-the-truth-about-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}