Marijuana May Boost, Rather Than Dull, the Elderly Brain

[TychoMonolyth]

Scientific American

Senior mice treated with THC improved on learning and memory tests

Picture the stereotypical pot smoker: young, dazed and confused. Marijuana has long been known for its psychoactive effects, which can include cognitive impairment. But new research published in June in Nature Medicine suggests the drug might affect older users very differently than young ones—at least in mice. Instead of impairing learning and memory, as it does in young people, the drug appears to reverse age-related declines in the cognitive performance of elderly mice.

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[billy_big_bud!]

surprise!!!

 

[St. Phatty]

Just put a basket of bud, some rolling papers, and a basket of condoms out at the nearest retirement community.

See what happens !

Maybe they don't use condoms ?

 

[MedFaced]

Leave the bucket of condoms for the boring sober senior home. If I make it to that age I fully intend on testing the limits of penicillin.

 

[Slim Pickens]

Leave the bucket of condoms for the boring sober senior home. If I make it to that age I fully intend on testing the limits of penicillin.

 

[St. Phatty]

Leave the bucket of condoms for the boring sober senior home.

I'm not sure there is such a thing.

From what I hear from friends who have relatives in them, there's more hooking up in senior homes than in most freshman dorms.

And I guess there's zero concern about pregnancy and not much about STD's.

 

[Green Squall]

Cannabis is a known neuroprotectant and is currently being researched for treatment in dementia and brain damage.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Just put a basket of bud, some rolling papers, and a basket of condoms out at the nearest retirement community.

See what happens !

Maybe they don't use condoms ?

They don't. Gonorrhea and Syphilis is running rampant in the senior population up here. Record numbers and there's no stopping it. Or them.

 

[Bud Green]

I'm old...and I still don't wear a raincoat when I'm in the shower...

Oh,
wait a minute...This thread is supposed to be about smoking weed and keeping my cognitive abilities..

 

[soil margin]

Cannabis is a known neuroprotectant and is currently being researched for treatment in dementia and brain damage.

Yup, a damaged brain is often a highly inflamed brain, and THC is a potent anti-inflammatory. Maybe one of the most powerful ones existing in nature even. CBD also seems to have some of those effects as well. When you get rid of that inflammation, lots of people's serious problems can almost magically improve or even disappear.