>“Although other studies have offered evidence that cannabinoids might be neuroprotective against the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, we believe our study is the first to demonstrate that cannabinoids affect both inflammation and amyloid beta accumulation in nerve cells,” says Salk Professor David Schubert, the senior author of the paper.
>It has long been known that amyloid beta accumulates within the nerve cells of the aging brain well before the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms and plaques. Amyloid beta is a major component of the plaque deposits that are a hallmark of the disease. But the precise role of amyloid beta and the plaques it forms in the disease process remains unclear.
>The researchers found that high levels of amyloid beta were associated with cellular inflammation and higher rates of neuron death. They demonstrated that exposing the cells to THC reduced amyloid beta protein levels and eliminated the inflammatory response from the nerve cells caused by the protein, thereby allowing the nerve cells to survive.
>“Inflammation within the brain is a major component of the damage associated with Alzheimer’s disease, but it has always been assumed that this response was coming from immune-like cells in the brain, not the nerve cells themselves,” says Antonio Currais, a postdoctoral researcher in Schubert’s laboratory and first author of the paper. “When we were able to identify the molecular basis of the inflammatory response to amyloid beta, it became clear that THC-like compounds that the nerve cells make themselves may be involved in protecting the cells from dying.”
It still makes you behave like a human that has Alzheimers.
Jason Foster
Not an argument.
Cameron Edwards
>I smoke weed so I don't get Alzheimer's
Joseph Scott
Short term memory isn't same as long term memory, the "I'm forgetting what i was doing" it's a neurological effect caused by lack of focus and not because it destroys your memory neurons.
Cameron Wilson
Sheeeeeit
Jace Richardson
Just a fact.
Jose Ramirez
And fapping reduces the risk for ass cancer. Why does Sup Forums want to kill me with anti-degeneracy?
Jayden Campbell
>thinks that subjective statements that use the word 'like' as a means of drawing comparison to something qualify as facts you act like a brainlet and that's a fact
Leo Smith
Well it gives me extreme anxiety and paranoia... I have no fucking clue why I smoke. I don't know what part of me likes it or any positive effect it's had on me other than to clean my room
Brody Bennett
...
John King
>tfw have marijuana psychosis from years of drug use >tfw if I ever smoke I'll be delusional and paranoid for up to a week >last time I got stoned, the next day I decided I'd quit my job and live in the woods "because I should live like a wild man, society sucks"
>tfw I literally have to be sober now
Wyatt Cooper
DUDE
Christian Morris
>DAZOOM POT CURES CANCER
Grayson Miller
That may be true, but explain why this means we should legalise the smoking of cannabis, rather than legalising it for medication production?
William Wilson
>increases high blood pressure risks by 3x, a problem plauging about 1/3 of Americans. >but that's okay, because it reduces the chance of Alzheimer's by about 10%, a disease less than 20% of the population gets.
Sure. So btfo.
Lincoln Price
This is an Israeli board full of shills
Parker Cook
>muh blood pressure Try not eating so many high-sodium McDonalds fries, fatty.
Michael Sanchez
>Cannabis actually HELPS No you stupid maple nigger, the molecules can be isolated.
Michael Anderson
You're not alone user.
Landon Barnes
>tfw have marijuana psychosis >tfw have psychosis If that was the normal reaction to a brain on weed we would all be in the woods. You are starting with an abnormal brain, then adding weed. Like how giving a stimulant to someone with ADHD calms then, but it's just speed to everyone else.
Michael Wilson
David (((Schubert)))
Christian Butler
>increases high blood pressure risks by 3x, a problem plauging about 1/3 of Americans.
Explain? I learned in school weed was an upper even though you feel "chilled out" but a simple explanation would help.
Wyatt Hill
>the main molecule that prevents AD is also the psychoactive one Did you even read the paper?
Jayden Long
Well I function normally sober.
Adam Wright
Hey guess what Fritz opinions are not arguments and they definitely are not facts now go teach this to your Muslim bull
Austin Miller
Hopefully they can do more studies on this. My family has a high risk for Alzheimers. If this turns out to be true I'll be smoking weed like crazy when I get older.
Brody Stewart
I'm testing on myself I'll let you know when I'm 70 how it worked out or not if I can't remember
Christian Howard
I want to try weed but shit like this scares me The only time I tried it I thought I was dying, the high came down and I started crying tears of joy that I was alive
Caleb Harris
I wasn't trying to diagnose you as crazy. Just abnormal when it comes to adding weed. Something in your existing chemistry doesn't like it.
Matthew Sanders
that guys is a shill or has much bigger mental problems
Zachary Thompson
Just eat some fucking bananas for Christ's sake.
Austin Ward
Alzeimers is fucking terrible. My Grandma has it. It's like watching her slowly die, your personality leaves, your memories, all that's left is a corpse but it's still alive and looks at you when you walk in to visit and you hope that somewhere in there there's some part of them left but deep down you know there's not
Isaiah Carter
>weed literally make you hungry and unleashe the bulimic instincts of Americans >Illegal because it would create competition DUDE
Evan Torres
Holy shit did you hear about morphine? It reduces pain. Quick everyone, fire up your opium pipes and abuse the shit out of it.
Jose Stewart
Sweet! My blood pressure is always low.
Blake Baker
get her high, stat
Mason Peterson
probably the second, I plan on trying it again sometime to see if I get the same effects
Gabriel Phillips
Tons of people get wonky when they do any drugs, even drink. I get worried sometimes that I'll accidentally throw it all away from some delusional shit. I hold myself together most of the time when I use weed, but I have had enough paranoid events that I have decided it's not a risk that I, as an adult should take. Probably not wrong
Parker Jackson
My grandparents both had it. Sometimes a circuit works and she brings up her family or remembered us for a few moments but eventually she was reduced to sitting in a wheel chair calling guys in a magazine handsome.
Adrian Rivera
>Smoke weed >Prevents alzheimers >Somehow always remember to smoke weed errday Checks out
I've met one that forgot about political correctness and was super racist towards black people, fucking hilarious
Hudson Carter
You're smoking too much sativa. Try indica and if that doesn't work, try a CBD only strain.
Caleb Nguyen
if you get psychosis when you drink you shouldn't drink same with weed, but that's has to be a pretty small population and also means you have something else going on
do you take any other medications? that could be the issue right there
just don't do a ton all at once do a little at a time if you overwhelm your cannabinoid receptors too much it can make you feel uncomfortable, just like with drinking, its a tolerance thing.
Jaxon Russell
B-but this one article from a nigger/pothead says the drug im already addicted to cures all diseases so I'll just go with that
Blake Rogers
>Weed makes you hungry, therefore it should be banned
Grayson Thompson
here's a gay ass blog for ya'll >smoking gives me panic attacks and the worst dry mouth >do it for weeks at a time when 17 anyways because hurr feels good >grow out of it, get a job, etc. >develop severe anxiety issues >start vaping it to help with anxiety >still awful dry mouth and mild anxiety breakthroughs, even when choosing the right strains >stop for a few years, mom who uses it medicinally (thank fucking god she was able to and quit taking painkillers) suggests I try an edible, but I say no since I'm scared of anxiety >finally try one this last summer, just a little rock candy >tastes yummy >super slow onset that lasts for hours but isn't super strong >just feel happy and glowing, no munchies, dry mouth, anxiety, coughing etc Can't understand why anyone would take it any other way desu.
Blake Young
>weed -causes- cancer damage control is off the charts.
>I wonder who could be behind this post considering all the dot gov links its not a hard guess.
keep pushing alcohol and shit though so your society is subservient and dumb and whatnot. implying people haven't noticed. implying you arn't already dead.
Hunter Cruz
Gentle reminder that Alzheimer's is literally a divine gift bestowed by God to reduce the suffering experienced by the elderly and to try to combat it is absolute heresy
Angel Cox
the panic attacks and anxiety are from doing over stimulating your endocannabinoid system doing less would help this the amount in your edible must be good, you build tolerance with time and you won't get that anxiety anymore ever
>t. stoner
Charles Taylor
I'm pushing sobriety. Stop escaping reality and face it
Grayson Gray
Are there any benefits of light usage? Is this for just heavy/daily users? There's a lot of info to trudge through and this thread would be gone before I could put something together.
Caleb Collins
No medications at all.
Have you never met a drunk person? They get confused, believe they love someone, believe they hate someone, etc. Not every drunk person, but definately a higher amount than people that get psychosis from smoking weed.
There are no drugs that won't eventually make you crazy. Very common to "relax", and be a functional drug user for many years before it becomes an issue.
John Perry
>dude LMAO smoking weed doesn't mess with my brain >dude holy shit smoking weed changes my brain BUT it's good I swear
Luke Hill
It still blows my mind how people like you are so fucking stupid
Carter White
This
Sativa makes you wired while indica makes your body melt
Cbd has already been linked to a bunch of health benifits and is proven time and time again to reduce stress and anxiety.
Samuel Moore
This. Almost all of these downsides are due to an overindulgence of THC.
As with anything, moderation is key.
Nicholas Edwards
>Is this for just heavy/daily users?
Yes. Most of that comes from smoking way too fucking much.
Jordan Rodriguez
Light up niggaz
Colton Edwards
You probably just got too high. Try a small amount of indica if you want to smoke again. Do it in a more comfy environment.
Aaron Fisher
Not legal in my state so it's whatever my roommate can pick up, kinda boned on choice of product. Thanks for info
Luke Myers
Nice government sources. Totally truthful and non biased.
Ryan Peterson
for one, when you get stoned you have to confront your inner voice, it gets "louder". sometimes this makes people paranoid or whatever but it allows you to confront your mental stresses head on and work through them. I treat my anxiety/depression with cannabis with success, but its not like pop a pill and it goes away, you have to sort out your inner demons.
Wyatt Richardson
Both light and heavy usage effects me negatively
t. Psychosis user
Forgot to mention weed makes me gay
Straight as an arrow every day, then I smoke some weed and want to Gavin McGinnes my butthole
Joseph Wood
Figured. Anecdotally I've found artistic abilities go up when you have the fight amount. I've written some cool improv guitar pieces high. Too much then I can't play properly
Brody Turner
whatever CIA, go sell some more crack to inner city black gentlemen.
Hudson Flores
weed thats harvested early wont have as much of the matured trichromes and that's the stuff that will make you feel paranoid off your ass strain has less to do with it commercial growers always harvest as early as they can, esp in illegal markets where every day the plants are in the ground is more risk properly harvested and cured weed doesnt have nearly the same effect
Michael Thomas
this is great for ptsd
also why i'm pro-statue removal.
pull all the triggers away.
Brayden Hughes
Definitely this. Any "shadow" you have will come full force at you. A few bad trips I've had made me super insecure and feel pathetic. Like near suicidal levels. I eventually confronted and defeated it, though.
Anthony Jones
Anytime user. Until you can have a better choice of strains, just have smaller amounts of it.
Also, if you start to feel any anxiety coming on again, it really helps if you just remind yourself that it's just the weed, and that it's nothing and it will be over in a few minutes.
Josiah Watson
>Salk
Well I'm sold.
Kevin Peterson
this. 100% you need to find people to get it from who do it out of passion not because they are drug dealers
Xavier Murphy
>smoke weed >don't get alzheimers >act like you have it from age 16 instead
Ryder Martinez
All I do is think of every horrible situation that can happen whether it's really possible or not (die alone, you're a fucking loser you need to stop engaging others, you're gonna get fired tomorrow for whatever reason). For the most part I talk myself down, telling myself it's the weed. My grandparents taught my mom and us grand kids to talk yourself out of bad thoughts or bad times which is really helpful. Don't need someone else to deal with all my problems.
Levi Butler
some people react weird ways to various substances and ending up psychotic from cannabis is a rare but well-documented possibility
Ryan Butler
>It cleans the brains like soap, babeh. What about the studies showing it'll give you schizophrenia? It gives you instant paranoia and paranoia is a primary symptom of schizophrenia.
Matthew Hill
>artistic abilities go up when you have the fight amount
So true for me. I've always been a very logical, systematic, mathematics left-side brain kind of person, who hated the mandatory art classes growing up. Now when I have a nice sativa I make artwork on the computer. It's not very good but it's a step up for me.
Hunter Campbell
That pic user.
Anthony Butler
Yeah, you have to harness that inner voice, and instead of berating yourself turn it into an attack strategy to better yourself, overcoming that obstacle allows you great freedom, this is what made me really believe in cannabis when I took hold of my mental state and changed my inner voice to become positive
Charles White
You're probably too autistic to enjoy cannabis. It's not for everyone.
Julian Russell
Fake and gay
Jason Lewis
>when you get stoned you have to confront your inner voice, it gets "louder". what weed have you been smoking? you are describing LSD.
Luis Kelly
>peoples all around the world have been practicing drug use for millenia >western states crack down on drugs during late 19th/early20th century >Sup Forums kiddies think they are bad because the local pastor says so
as long as you keep the use moderate and preferrably start during adulthood, it's fine there's also the factor of genetic disposition, but hey, gotta roll the dice
just don't smoke skunk weed ( high THC content weed )
Camden Perez
REEEE THE JESUS LEAF REEEEEE
Camden Foster
When you get 20%+ THC stuff it really can have that effect if you have a lot at once
Austin Miller
So do you not think? It should really say your thoughts get louder, its easier to get trapped in your head, whatever. not like tripping lmao
Alexander Green
the munchies are a myth. it doesn't actually make you hungry if you're hydrated. get a hard candy and bottle of water cause your body is craving sugar
Isaac Walker
> that gif
Story behind this?
Gavin Smith
>Almost all of these downsides are due to an overindulgence of THC.
Well shit, the same could be said of rat poison. The real question is: are the guaranteed upsides worth the potential downsides?
Leo Sullivan
As far as I've read it's a case of butane gas huffing going very badly wrong.
Owen Clark
>The real question is: are the guaranteed upsides worth the potential downsides?
Most of the time yes, especially if you have something wrong with you that warrants a medical marijuana card.
Ayden Reyes
Nicotine has prevention effects on alzheimers too And of the two (cannabis and nic) which lets you function normally and actually enhances cognitive performance? Rmyt
Hunter Stewart
>mfw Sup Forums discusses weed
I don't know when it became so acceptable to debate things you know nothing about.
Xavier Martin
NorCal. We grow it good and tasty here. There's a lot of GIANT operators out here, but it's mostly backyard gardens. There's folks that grow the CBD weed Harlequin, which has almost no THC. It has no street value.
Owen Sanchez
because i have ate so many edibles in one sitting and still felt nothing, in comparison to the amount of dabs i vape, so realistically once your tolerance is so high, you have to change around strains often, even then its 1-2 weeks at most and im tolerance caped on that strain.
