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Marijuana Good for the Arteries

A Geneva University study shows that TCH, the active ingredient in marijuana, helps prevent coronary artery disease.

Here is a reprinting of Cannabis Compound Slows Artery Disease in Mice (Reuters)

An active ingredient in cannabis can ease inflammation and slow the progression of coronary artery disease in mice, and possibly humans, researchers said on Wednesday. Daily low doses of the ingredient, THC, prevented atherosclerosis, a primary cause of heart disease and stroke in western countries, without producing the associated high. "We have proven that very low doses of cannabis therapy will have an anti-inflammatory effect that will slow the progression of atherosclerosis in mice," said Dr Francois Mach, of Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland.

He and his team do not know whether TCH, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, will have the same effect in humans. But they believe the discovery will help find compounds that produce the same effect in humans without side effects such as raised blood pressure or euphoria. "The goal now is to find new molecules, new compounds, that will act only on this anti-inflammatory effect," Mach told Reuters. Atherosclerosis is a common disorder of the arteries. Fatty materials build up and eventually block the arteries and interfere with blood flow.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=8104801
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Rollme-wan Mordoobie, the Redeyed Jedi
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There is . . . but one categorical imperative: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~~~Immanuel Kant.

[The Moose]

Marijuana Good for the Arteries

A Geneva University study shows that TCH, the active ingredient in marijuana, helps prevent coronary artery disease.

Here is a reprinting of Cannabis Compound Slows Artery Disease in Mice (Reuters)

An active ingredient in cannabis can ease inflammation and slow the progression of coronary artery disease in mice, and possibly humans, researchers said on Wednesday. Daily low doses of the ingredient, THC, prevented atherosclerosis, a primary cause of heart disease and stroke in western countries, without producing the associated high. "We have proven that very low doses of cannabis therapy will have an anti-inflammatory effect that will slow the progression of atherosclerosis in mice," said Dr Francois Mach, of Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland.

He and his team do not know whether TCH, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, will have the same effect in humans. But they believe the discovery will help find compounds that produce the same effect in humans without side effects such as raised blood pressure or euphoria. "The goal now is to find new molecules, new compounds, that will act only on this anti-inflammatory effect," Mach told Reuters. Atherosclerosis is a common disorder of the arteries. Fatty materials build up and eventually block the arteries and interfere with blood flow.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=8104801
_________________
Rollme-wan Mordoobie, the Redeyed Jedi
************************************
There is . . . but one categorical imperative: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~~~Immanuel Kant.