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Liberty & Power: Group Blog

Keith Halderman
Medical Marijuana Yet Another Use

Lately, a fairly common occurrence is the discovery that marijuana  
may be effective in the treatment of yet another illness. Recently,  
scientists at National Centre for Scientific Research in Valbonne,  
France found that an element in marijuana could prevent the  
development of prion diseases, The most famous of this class of  
malady is bovine spongiforme enzephalopathy commonly known as mad cow  
disease, which when transmitted to humans is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob  
disease. The BBC tells us that, “French researchers reported that the  
non- psychoactive cannabis constituent CBD inhibited the accumulation  
of prion proteins in both mouse and sheep prion- infected cells,  
whereas other cannabinoids were either weak or not effective.  
Moreover, after infection with mouse scrapie, a prion disease, CBD  
limited accumulation of the prion protein in the brain and  
significantly increased the survival time of infected mice. CBD  
inhibited the nerve damaging effects of prions in a concentration- 
dependent manner.”

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/42934.html