http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/05/po ... index.html



And it's illegal because...???

...probably one reason is because it could potentially cut into profits of the major drug companies and the textile industry (i.e. Hemp fiber, which has a negligibly small amount of THC, is a plant that is too closely related to marijuana for conservative law makers to be comfortable with its mass cultivation).

It is interesting though that a substance that is well known and clinically proven to be associated with memory impairment during long term usage, could also be a substance that could help prevent a disease that is primarily associated with the deterioration of memory function. It should be noted though, that studies have also shown that a cessation of long term usage of marijuana usually corresponds to the cessation of any of its negative effects on memory.

Then again, maybe all of those dope smoking hippies who light up every day (and eventually do get Alzheimer's disease), just arent able to notice any the negative effects. lol

i wonder what type of testing they did to reach that hypothesis.

a little song:

He turned thirty-five last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
He get's out there in the twilight zone
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

He gets off on country music
Cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
But he's just too friggin' old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder why

He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust

He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior trip
And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy
And in each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
But he just can't change no more


Well he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo...just up and fade away

He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust.

Don't forget about Mr. X

rmadison ponders:



Quite apart from the massive political/economic investment in, and profits from, the War on Drugs, there is an even more insidious aspect that Americal must be guarded against: while marijuana may have positive effects, IT MIGHT BE FUN!!!! And we can't have that.

I got some Gingko Biloba, 'cause I heard it can help improve memory.

But I keep forgetting to take it.

I actually have a photographic memory, but either my brain is out of film OR I just keep forgetting to remove my temporal lobes' lens cap.