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Active ingredient in cannabis protects aging brain cells, researchers find

pluc 5y ago
This week sure was a roller coaster for stoners. "Long-term cannabis use damages lungs, but in a different way to tobacco": https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942244 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942244
- corey_moncure 5y ago
  Fortunately, there are other routes of administration that don't involve combustion products!
  - loudtieblahblah 5y ago
    None that protects decline in cognition, that seems to be common. With habitual use.
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antics9 5y ago
That might explain why my friends stopped maturing by their early twenties!
- whazor 5y ago
  Also explains why my friends lost memory in the period they were addicted to cannabis.
  - rootsudo 5y ago
    and why non of my friends ever got covid! (or is that just CBD? non THC?)
throw8932894 5y ago
This feels like doctors recommending smoking in 1950ties! Maybe it is a survivor bias, weak cells die sooner, so only measured brain cells are super strong :)
- mountainriver 5y ago
  CBN is harmless this isn’t even remotely like smoking cigarettes, in fact CBN can also help you sleep.
ape4 5y ago
TL;DR CBN not THC or CBD
- tsol 5y ago
  This is actually way more interesting IMO. THC has many issues, it's very strong and a lot of people either don't like it or can't use it except during breaks. CBN isn't really even psychosomatic, so it can be dosed easily and benefits can be acquired by most people. Now if only it weren't so expensive despite the huge availability
- CoastalCoder 5y ago
  So should the post's title be "An active ingredient ..."?
unixbane 5y ago
Literally every nutrient or substance has a million good effects as well as bad. Articles extolling the virtues (or 1 virtue) or a nutrient are generally clickbait, including the original research. I hate how researchers take some nutrient and study it hoping it will cure this and that. It's literally a dead end. There will never be medical progress this way. It's a good way to spend _some_ resources because it's still possibly good research, but that's it.
- vanusa 5y ago
  You're being a glass-half-empty person. Actually it's worse than that: you're being extremely hyperbolic in your condemnation of this research. I see health research a giant jigsaw puzzle (on top of other kinds of puzzles) -- and over time, by examining multiple routs of interaction, we start to see the bigger picture. And find out why, for example, certain substances that are harmful (in some aspects, at certain use levels) can also be tolerated or acclimated to over time (because they can be beneficial to other parts of the system). Especially given that this is not just any substance, but one that our species has been using across cultures and since before recorded history. And when it comes to conditions like Alzheimer's: if we have to turn over a thousand stones, and do a thousand studies like this to get a working compound -- then so be it. It literally is a trillion-dollar question, in both financial and human (suffering) terms. And yet here we are, still groping around different parts of the elephant in the dark.
chmaynard 5y ago
CBD vs CBN: https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/cbd-cbn-what-is-difference https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/cbd-cbn-what-is-differ... Looks like Salk submitted the paper to a paywalled journal. Can anyone here refer me to a copy of the PDF?

pluc 5y ago

This week sure was a roller coaster for stoners. "Long-term cannabis use damages lungs, but in a different way to tobacco": https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942244 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942244

corey_moncure 5y ago
Fortunately, there are other routes of administration that don't involve combustion products!
- loudtieblahblah 5y ago
  None that protects decline in cognition, that seems to be common. With habitual use.

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antics9 5y ago

That might explain why my friends stopped maturing by their early twenties!

whazor 5y ago
Also explains why my friends lost memory in the period they were addicted to cannabis.
- rootsudo 5y ago
  and why non of my friends ever got covid! (or is that just CBD? non THC?)

throw8932894 5y ago

This feels like doctors recommending smoking in 1950ties! Maybe it is a survivor bias, weak cells die sooner, so only measured brain cells are super strong :)

mountainriver 5y ago
CBN is harmless this isn’t even remotely like smoking cigarettes, in fact CBN can also help you sleep.

ape4 5y ago

TL;DR CBN not THC or CBD

tsol 5y ago
This is actually way more interesting IMO. THC has many issues, it's very strong and a lot of people either don't like it or can't use it except during breaks. CBN isn't really even psychosomatic, so it can be dosed easily and benefits can be acquired by most people. Now if only it weren't so expensive despite the huge availability
CoastalCoder 5y ago
So should the post's title be "An active ingredient ..."?

unixbane 5y ago

Literally every nutrient or substance has a million good effects as well as bad. Articles extolling the virtues (or 1 virtue) or a nutrient are generally clickbait, including the original research. I hate how researchers take some nutrient and study it hoping it will cure this and that. It's literally a dead end. There will never be medical progress this way. It's a good way to spend _some_ resources because it's still possibly good research, but that's it.

vanusa 5y ago
You're being a glass-half-empty person. Actually it's worse than that: you're being extremely hyperbolic in your condemnation of this research. I see health research a giant jigsaw puzzle (on top of other kinds of puzzles) -- and over time, by examining multiple routs of interaction, we start to see the bigger picture. And find out why, for example, certain substances that are harmful (in some aspects, at certain use levels) can also be tolerated or acclimated to over time (because they can be beneficial to other parts of the system). Especially given that this is not just any substance, but one that our species has been using across cultures and since before recorded history. And when it comes to conditions like Alzheimer's: if we have to turn over a thousand stones, and do a thousand studies like this to get a working compound -- then so be it. It literally is a trillion-dollar question, in both financial and human (suffering) terms. And yet here we are, still groping around different parts of the elephant in the dark.

chmaynard 5y ago

CBD vs CBN: https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/cbd-cbn-what-is-difference https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/cbd-cbn-what-is-differ... Looks like Salk submitted the paper to a paywalled journal. Can anyone here refer me to a copy of the PDF?