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In reply to the discussion: Marijuana cannabinoids slow brain degradation and aging, reverse dementia [View all]wordpix
(18,652 posts)21. I don't know - my mother has advanced Alzheimer's
Maybe it would have helped when she was in middle stage and still able to understand off and on. But now she wouldn't be able to understand, "Hold it in."
I agree it would probably be very helpful to Alz. patients who are violent. My mother was that way for awhile, again in mid-stage, b/c she thought there were people trying to kill her. She would grab knives and so on to protect herself from the "bad men" she was hallucinating, who weren't there.
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Marijuana cannabinoids slow brain degradation and aging, reverse dementia [View all]
kentuck
May 2013
OP
I suffer from small fiber sensory neuropathy, the most painful type of neuropathy.
Dustlawyer
May 2013
#19
My girlfriend and I have discussed it but nothing can happen until after the BP oil spill
Dustlawyer
May 2013
#63
History will likely regard the government's long-term position on the cannabis issue as
indepat
May 2013
#24
have the champagne at night with some berries, and the oatmeal with cinnamoned apples for breakfast!
bettyellen
May 2013
#32
Aricept was such a god send for a few years. It brought my Mom back for a while and we knew it was
bettyellen
May 2013
#33
Tks, I was fortunate enough to shoe horn her into a program with amazing doctors,- geriatric
bettyellen
May 2013
#37