Damned hippies might yet know what the hell they’re doing:
New research shows that the active ingredient in marijuana may prevent the progression of the disease by preserving levels of an important neurotransmitter that allows the brain to function. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California found that marijuana’s active ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, can prevent the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from breaking down more effectively than commercially marketed drugs.
Actually, this is good news for the CEO, since I’d anyway decided a long time ago that once I make it to 70 or so (knock on wood), I am going to do all those drugs that I denied myself as a youth. Or were denied to me, anyway*. Now I can tell The Man to lay off since I am “treating my Alzheimers.” I’m not sure how I’ll explain the rest of the drugs, but this is a start.
* Or, if not so much denied, then just unavailable because I wasn’t cool. I’ll have no problem rectifying my coolness problem when I am an old codger, I’m sure.
