The Magical Leaf

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California San Diego, used a type of high-tech scan called diffusion tensor imaging to compare microscopic changes in brain white matter. The study showed that brain white matter tracts were “more coherent in adolescents who binge drink and use marijuana than in adolescents who report only binge drinking,” the researchers wrote. “It is possible that marijuana may have some neuroprotective properties in mitigating alcohol-related oxidative stress or excitotoxic cell death.” The scientists noted that such protection has already been shown in lab and animal studies.

As a matter of fact our government already knows this and has a patent on cannabinoids as neuroprotectants. Imagine, The same people who supposidly have laws to protect us against the harmful affects of marijuana has a patent for extracting protective properties and antioxidents from the same “harmful” plant. Marijuana will rot your brain they say and people have gone so far as to say pot smokers “become bestial demoniacs, filled with the mad lust to kill..” Experts even used to call marijuana “the killer drug.” Can we please just normalize the smoking of pot and remove the very conservative and outdated views of this social stigma that exists.

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