Researchers have found that THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, may aid a process which is perhaps linked to a possible treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, which might actually be effective, maybe.
In a study that was published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging, researchers smoked out aged rats with fine government issued trees and wrote down everything they did. “I got the idea from my son,” said lead researcher Gary Wenk. “He had this cat that he was trying to get rid of by leaving it in different neighborhoods, and it would always find it’s way back. He swore its memory was enhanced because he’d been blowing shotguns into its ears for months. So we said, that’s interesting. Let’s try it with rats next”.
Through some scientific means which regular folks totally won’t understand very well, Wenk and his team found that smoking reefer may slow or even reverse the dementia associated with Alzheimer’s disease. In an attempt to minimize the psychoactive effects experienced by those treated, they estimate that the lowest effective dose for a 60 to 75 year old person is a single puff of weed a day, which will leave plenty of roaches around for mooching grandkids.
