Posted on 04/07/2005 9:49:23 AM PDT by headsonpikes
THE active ingredient in cannabis protects arteries against harmful changes that lead to strokes and heart attacks, new research suggests. THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is known to affect the brain and make cannabis-users “high”. The new research shows that it also has an influence on blood vessels.
A study of mice revealed that the compound blocks the process of inflammation, which is largely responsible for the narrowing of arteries.
Inflammation combines with fatty deposits to produce obstructive “plaques”, a condition known as atherosclerosis. These can block arteries to the heart, causing angina and heart attacks, or to the brain, leading to strokes. Atherosclerosis is the primary cause of heart disease and stroke in the Western world, accounting for up to half the deaths from both conditions.
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Mice like Oreos and Taco Bell.
I think mice have all the fun. ;)
One of my old best friends always used to say, "More is not enough."
Not a week goes by without discovering something else it's good for.
Why, potheads must be the healthiest critters on the face of the earth.
No. It is symptomatic of a successful business enterprise not to dump money down the marijuana research rathole, since anything they would come up with will simply be circumvented by people who will roll their own as their "poor man's medicine".
Pom juice? Is that made by squeezing citizens of the UK?
Such an attitude is symptomatic of modern state cultism, in which the paranoias of the bureaucracy become the accepted wisdom of the people.
Ex my post #29.
You Koolaid-heads remind of E-trippers, all touchy-feely - except in your case, I suspect it's the touch and feel of boot-leather that turns your crank.
Well, he's stupid and slow, but he makes up for it with open arteries!
DUH! How come after all these years of testing they are just finding this stuff out?
It is a shame chronic pain requires some of our fellow citizens to be criminals. Legalize it and tax the sh*t out of it and we will be in the black in short order.
Semper Fi
"granite"....Damn that's gotta scratch going down!..LOL..
And just what about my post got your knickers in a knot?
Well, I assumed you were being sarcastic in your post #44.
If not, then I will only caution you that not everything you read about marijuana is true.
There may indeed be negative side-effects.
FIRE BAD!!
If there's enough and they think you're going to try to sell it.
Yep.
Many murderers or rapists get parole before 10 years.
That's the law, though.
And as we saw in the Terri Schaivo case, the law is synonomous with justice.
And the law most certainly is an ass in this case.
Like all those people who chew willow bark rather than pay for aspirin?
If something comes of this arterial plaque research, I trust that all the WODdie Koolaid chuggers will forgo any use of the Devil's Dandelion or its extracts for health benefits!
They are such principled men!
There ya go. Case in point.
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