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Marijuana Likely No Help in Alzheimer’s

Posted by gestroud Thursday, February 25, 2010 | 4 views
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Medicinal marijuana is finding its way into many areas of medicine. It’s a big help for some people with AIDS, providing them with a much-needed appetite. Marijuana is helpful for some people with cancer, helping them manage their side effects, and it’s also been found to help people with glaucoma, just to name a few.
There was hope that medicinal marijuana would provide help for people with Alzheimers because earlier animal studies had shown that marijuana could reduce the plaques in the brain that are the hallmark of Alzheimers.
Although this new study, from the University of British Columbia, is also an animal study, it was done with mice, which are considered to be a better match for human studies, while the previous ones were done on rats.
The researcher used the same meth…

Marijuana Likely No Help in Alzheimer’s
Source: MedWorm Tags: marijuana

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