Subject: [Homestead] Plant (and use?) grass and help fight Mad Cow Disease
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:06:30 -0500
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.”