Preventing Memory Loss With Marijuana

Some parts of the brain respond positively to regular cannabis exposure

• Recent investigations have shown that stimulating the brain’s cannabinoid receptors may be protective.
• The contents of cannabis may offer protection from the effects of stroke, chronic pain, and inflammation.
• Cannabis may restore neurogenesis and neuroplasticity in the aging brain by reducing inflammation.

…Research 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. Cannabis products may offer benefits for a variety of central nervous system diseases and dysfunctions such as forms of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and some neuropsychiatric disorders. It may require very little daily cannabis consumption to produce benefits in the older brain; 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.

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