Smoke some weed, Improve your health?
A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression. The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain.
In mammals, new nerve cells are constantly being produced in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is associated with learning, memory, anxiety and depression. Other recreational drugs, such as alcohol, nicotine and cocaine, have been shown to suppress this new growth. Xia Zhang of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, and colleagues decided to see what effects a synthetic cannabinoid called HU210 had on rats’ brains.
They found that giving rats high doses of HU210 twice a day for 10 days increased the rate of nerve cell formation, or neurogenesis, in the hippocampus by about 40%.
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Anonymous said,
October 17, 2005 at 4:41 pm
Thats a very reputable research uni doing the research right there….what a fukin ridiculous article. Aside from decades of proof that weed rots your brain and causes all sorts of whack shit to u…u need only to look at the morons who smoke the shit to understand that it aint good for u…
Zuser said,
October 18, 2005 at 9:50 am
Sorry buddy, you’re a tard.
These scientist are not saying we should all become pot smoking stoners -maybe you took the comical title of the article too seriously, but rather that some of the chemicals found in marijuana are likely useful for medicine (there are even more uses then mentioned in this article actually). Are you against people saving lives or reducing the effects of alzheimers? I hope not.
So yeh, shut the fuck up.
sammy said,
October 23, 2005 at 2:49 pm
ohsnap!!
god said,
November 4, 2005 at 9:54 pm
u guys are fuckin dumb.SMOKE WEED
Krillin said,
December 20, 2005 at 1:44 pm
Marijuana’s obvioulsy good for the brain. This may sound like an oxymoron to non-users; but it couldn’t be more true. Marijuana has long been considered the “wisdom weed”. There’s a certain enlightenment that comes with the ingestion of Marijuana and derivatives.
This isn’t the first time this finding has been brought up. The only mental block is people being lead to believe Marijuana is a horrible, life wruining substance. Marijuana isn’t illegal for health cencorns, it is medicinal, sacred and a well respected plant; globally