My mom has moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Back in 2012, I chose to move in with her to ride along her challenging decline, in order to help understand and communicate her adaptations to other caregivers. I worked solidly and lived modestly…
My mom has moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Back in 2012, I chose to move in with her to ride along her challenging decline, in order to help understand and communicate her adaptations to other caregivers. I worked solidly and lived modestly…
From “Substance in Marijuana Could Benefit Alzheimer’s Patients” (Voice of America): A substance found in marijuana might remove a kind of plaque associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. Writing in the journal “Aging and Mechanisms of Disease”,…
Prompted by: 3 Ways Prohibitionists Are Fighting Legalization in Mass.—And Why They’re Wrong (High Times) Acting locally, but authoring points here with global relevance… After three top Massachusetts officials —the governor, attorney general and mayor of Boston— penned an op-ed…
Happy Mother’s day as fit to you and yours. This is a fitting moment to share my mom’s health experience with you all in order to help our community. You can think of this newly annual post as a kind…
An experimental epilepsy drug made from cannabis plants grown in England is complicating the medical marijuana debate in hospitals and statehouses. The cannabis-based epilepsy drug Epidiolex is a nearly pure extract of cannabidiol, or CBD, with little of the tetrahydrocannabinol,…
Prompted by “Top 11 Medical Cannabis Research Findings of 2015”: http://www.hightimes.com/read/top-11-medical-cannabis-research-findings-2015 On the personal front (albeit preferably with society-reaching benefit), 2015 was a solid year for medical cannabis. In addition to eliminating pharmaceuticals with their harsh side effects almost entirely,…
Prompted by “Preventing Alzheimer With Cannabis?”: http://www.zamnesia.com/blog-preventing-alzheimer-with-cannabis-n304 A puff a day keeps dementia away. “If you do anything, such as smoke a bunch of marijuana in your 20s and 30s, you may wipe out all of the inflammation in your…