Preventive Alzheimers medicine...say it ain't so Mr. Government?

Question:

The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping of malformed proteins that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease than any currently approved prescription drugs.

Scientists report the finding in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.

Answers:
Perhaps so, but I wouldn't break out the doobies just yet.
Marijuana use has been implicated in triggering schizophrenia in young people who might not otherwise be susceptible.

If this is true, then some pharmaceutical company will synthesize a copy of it that won't be usable for a high. The Government will allow this because they know (Bush trying to reform Social Security, Bernanke talking about the Baby Boomers straining Medicare, etc.) the shape of the future is millions more elderly people than we can imagine. If nothing is done about Alzheimers, then we will have huge prison-like warehouses for those with the disease because there won't be sufficient medical staff who can or will want to take care of them.

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