A Puff a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?

Your Brain on Food-Surprisingly, it may also protect against some aspects of age-associated memory loss. Ordinarily, we do not view marijuana as being good for our brain and certainly not for making memories. How could a drug that clearly impairs memory while people are under its sway protect their brains from the consequences of aging? The answer likely has everything to do with the way that young and old brains function and a series of age-related changes in brain chemistry. When we are young, stimulating the brain's marijuana receptors interfere with making memories. However, later in life, the brain gradually displays increasing evidence of inflammation and a dramatic decline in the production of new neurons, called neurogenesis, that are important for making new memories.
Research in my laboratory has demonstrated that stimulating the brain's marijuana receptors may offer protection by reducing brain inflammation and by restoring neurogenesis. Thus, later in life, marijuana might actually help your brain, rather than harm it. It takes very little marijuana to produce benefits in the older brain; my colleague in France, Dr. Yannick Marchalant, coined the motto "a puff is enough" because it appears as though only a single puff each day is necessary to produce significant benefit. The challenge for pharmacologists in the future will be to isolate the beneficial effects of the marijuana plant from its psychoactive effects.-Gary L.Wenk, Ph.D.


Hahahahahahaahhaahahahah........for real though just make marijuana legal it's not a drug it's a plant. Not only does it slow/stop lung cancer from forming as stated in an earlier post but when you're old it improves your memory and potentially keeps all of us from losing our minds to Alzheimer’s. It says all you need is one puff just imagine how beneficial a blunt would be. LEGALIZE IT