High Times for Alzheimers

[Ruby]

This is a forward off another list..... But, I have a question... Has
anyone had really good success with Alzheimers using homeopathic
Cannabis Indica? It seems to fit the picture much moreso than what I'm
reading of Cannabis Sativa (Hemp).... The names are kind of confusing,
as everyone always refers to HEMP as being the name they are promoting,
but in Homeopathic terms, Hemp doesn't fit as well as Hashish for
Alzheimers.... At least in Boericke's.
I'd love some insight on this.... There are so many with Alzheimers....

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Jennifer Ruby

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FWD:
Someone should send this to Charlton Heston. He may decide to try
cannabis.
He was recently diagnosed with Alzheimers. We can stand to have the
President of the NRA supporting the medical use of marijuana.

High Times for Alzheimers
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14254.shtml
By Sophie Petit-Zeman
Source: Guardian Unlimited

'A younger sibling of mine accidentally let grandma eat the wrong
brownies... You could tell she had AD --Alzheimer's disease -- but
nothing so prominent. It was like it took her back 3-4 years." Postings
such as this one on the Alzforum website intrigued Dr Nathaniel >
Milton, a biochemist at London's Royal Free and University College
medical school.

He was already actively researching compounds which prevent the brain
cell death that occurs in Alzheimer's disease, and, with research
partner Insight Biotechnology, had taken out patents on some capable of
doing this.

He was also aware of a few reports suggesting that cannabis
preparations, in the hands of doctors, could do for their patients much
of what the brownies did for grandma.

The brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer contains abnormal deposits called
"tangles" and "plaques." Associated with these deposits are proteins, or
bits of them, called tau and amyloid-beta (Aß) respectively. Healthy
tau plays a structural role in brain cells, but there is good evidence
that in Alzheimer's disease, it becomes festooned with atoms of
phosphorus and oxygen, like lights on a Christmas tree.

It is thought to be this that tips tau into tangles. Milton has
evidence that something similar happens to Aß in plaques, and that this,
in turn, makes it toxic to brain cells. In research to be published in
the journal Neuroscience Letters, and which he will also present at next
month's neurobiology of aging conference in Florida, he reports that
cannabinoids - cannabis-like compounds that occur naturally in the brain
- can stop Aß killing cells.

"My basic hypothesis," he says, "is that Aß is taken up into neurons,
where it is phophorylated [garlanded, like tau, with phosphorus and
oxygen] and kills them. It's this toxic action that cannabinoids
prevent."

Milton discovered this by incubating human neurons in culture, and then
poisoning them with Aß.
When he added cannabinoids to the brew, Aß was apparently no longer
toxic. Milton describes a complex "protective signalling pathway inside
neurons" that he thinks is activated by the cannabinoids.

Other compounds with similar properties do exist, and one of particular
interest is corticotrophin releasing hormone (CRH). Like cannabinoids,
CRH is made within the brain and is reportedly reduced in people with
Alzheimer's disease. This is of particular interest to Milton because,
he says: "If it turns out that reduced CRH is fundamental to the disease
process, then the brain may be losing one of its innate protective
mechanisms. People with high natural levels of cannabinoids in their
brains might then be protected against Alzheimer's disease."

And the next question follows like, well, smoke after lighting up: Are
we set to see a generation, or indeed generations, of cannabis smokers
immune to Alzheimer's disease?

Milton says not, because his research shows not only the ability of
cannabinoids to protect against brain cell death in Alzheimer's disease,
but also that too much of them is toxic. Dr Richard Harvey, director of
research at the Alzheimer's Society, says: "There's no epidemiological
data on whether exposure to cannabis in humans affects the risk of
developing dementia, and it may be difficult to collect such data." But
Harvey calls Milton's research "very interesting", adding that: "Clearly
in the test tube, cannabinoids have the ability to block at least one of
the probable causal mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease and so become a
potential treatment or preventative agent that needs to be tested in
humans."

Note: Sophie Petit-Zeman on the way cannabinoids could alleviate
symptoms of degenerative diseases.

Alzheimer's Society helpline: 0845 300 0336 Source: Guardian Unlimited,
The (UK)
Author: Sophie Petit-Zeman Published: Thursday, September 26, 2002
Copyright: 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited Contact:
letters@guardian.co.uk Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Related
Article & Web Site:

Alzforum Website - Marijuana
http://www.alzforum.org/res/adh/hyp/#marijuana Pharmos to Test
Cannabis-Like Drug for Memory Loss
http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13551.shtml CannabisNews Medical
Marijuana Archives http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml I was
right...sorta All these years I've seen dementia confusion swept away
like cobwebs in patients I've given ganja too, but could never get a
doctor to tell me how it worked. And assumed most of them didn't
believe it anyway. I assumed it was swelling or pressure caused from
the formation of Glutimates, but whatever.
It worked. I also think cannabis allowing a good nights sleep helped.
Good News...

The only problem is with yet another cannabis miracle Ashcroft and
Walters profits are in jeopardy so expect an increase in lies from the
propaganda ministry.

Liberty from the Braindead D.E.A.th!

Cannabis Prevents Brain Damage
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabis ... D=24.topic

Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabis ... ID=3.topic

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabis ... =116.topic

"One of marijuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable
safety"
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabis ... =298.topic

[Dave Hartley]

It is a lot like many other so-called medical diagnoses.
Alzheimer's is a name, a label, it isn't really a 'medical' definition.. but
a broad label.
Surely the cannabis remedies, along with Alumina & probably at least 50
others (including other metals) could be looked at in cases 'medically'
diagnosed as Alzheimer's.

Our MM is not too well-developed in Cann-s., but contains one striking
symptom which is rather out-of-character considering the 'normal' 'herbal'
use/abuse of the substance:

there is a symptom in T.F. Allen, proving notes attribution (a11 Morgagni)
(apparently related to a cause of death in an agricultural hemp worker)

"At times raging in delirium, so that he spit into people's faces"
& "in part joyous, in part earnest delirium"

-which could certainly cause the study of this Rx to be of interest in
Alzheimer's dementia.

Amongst the "High Times" crowd- well, there is an obvious pothead subtext.
Lotsa chronic drug-users looking for ways to un-demonize their drug of
choice.
(or sacrament, depending on where your viewpoint is.)
HEMP is general defined to mean non-psychoactive cannibis, as grown
commercially for fiber, oil, food.
It may be only a matter of time until Hemp regains its widespread place as
once-ubiquitous sustainable source of fiber & food (traditionally the
nutritionally-potent hempseed was a major component of "gruel") -as world
petroleum reserves are exhausted.. it is an interesting story, how the
"industrial revolution" criminalized hemp in order to build massive
financial fortunes (with "world war" as a means to an end) in sythetic
fibers & other petroleum based products.
http://www.ka.net/randy/conspiracies/sh ... hadow.html
http://www.ka.net/randy/conspiracies/ti ... ology.html
The current political atmosphere

A long historical (& pre-historical) timeline on cannabis

http://members.tripod.com/greenleaf_ban ... ryofHempJo
seph.html

-long URL, will undoubtedly be broken-up in cyberspace -paste it back
together
Dave Hartley
www.Mr-Notebook.com
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Seattle, WA 425.820.7443