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CANNABIS FOR YOUR BRAIN
Can Cannabis Keep Your Brain
Young?
New studies are showing that using cannabis can help slow aging in the brain.
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Reginald Reefer, today at 12:00am
Can Cannabis Keep Your Brain Young?
The stereotypical weed smoker is depicted as a slow dimwit with the inability to harbor productive
thoughts for more than a few seconds. They are motivated by their hedonistic tendencies and
want to get “high” as much as possible.
In 2021, we know this is not true considering that almost half of all US adults have tried cannabis at
one point in time. While this harmful stereotype was used to deter people from smoking under the
assumption that “cannabis negatively impacts the brain” – science is shedding new light on this
topic.
Like this PBS Piece (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/cannabis-reverses-brain-aging/) on
whether cannabis reversed brain aging. The studies are currently being conducted on Mice,
meaning that there is not a whole lot of human-evidence to suggest that cannabis helps slow down
brain aging- but in mice, the results have been consistent.
One theory is that as we age, we significantly begin to produce fewer endocannabinoids. This
affects our endocannabinoid system that is responsible for maintaining homeostasis in the body.
The endocannabinoid system helps modulate mood, pain, appetite, immune response and much
more.

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Therefore, theoretically – since many of our endocannabinoids are similar to the
phytocannabinoids found in cannabis – we could see how it could replenish the loss of
endocannabinoid production caused by aging.
What did the Mice tell us?
The current evidence on this idea comes from the study of mice done by several researchers.
There are several studies done in Israel, Germany and in the US. One of the researchers Nicole
Ashport explained how they tested the cognitive decline for mice within an established
experiment;
“When we take young mice and we put them in a learning and memory maze, they will very quickly learn
to find the escape. Our aged mice will also learn how to escape the maze but they just don’t learn as
efficiently. So it might take a young mouse 16 attempts in the maze to master it. But it might take an old
mouse 25. And so we can see that the old mice can still learn. They just don’t learn as quickly.” - Source
(https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/cannabis-reverses-brain-aging/)
This allows researchers to observe how older mice take longer to process the information and
commit it to memory. Theoretically because of inflammation associated with aging, however it
could also be a lack of endocannabinoids reaching certain parts of the brain associated with
memory.
However, when administering low doses of THC to the mice, Ashport observed something
interesting:
“When we treated old animals with a synthetic version of THC at low doses, we would see a stimulation
effect. They would move faster, they would move more. They had increases in their ability to be able to
solve the mazes more efficiently. That is consistent with what had been reported by the other groups

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showing really low doses could lead to a beneficial effect.”
We are also seeing this anecdotally within humans. Many older patients have reported that they
“feel alive” and “have more energy” after taking cannabis. Could this also be simply because of a
lack of endocannabinoids that led to heightened inflammation – which is a cause or symptom of
many different conditions.
One of the biggest hallmarks of aging that we see that can contribute to frailty and other impairments in
advanced age is increases in inflammation. Cannabis and many cannabinoids can reduce inflammation
within the brain and throughout the rest of the body. And so it’s likely that when we’re administering
cannabinoids that are acting as anti-inflammatory signals, that they are inherently improving the aging
system by simply taking away the stressors of inflammation. – Nicole Ashport
Good Endocannabinoid Health
Perhaps, we’re entering into a stage of societal life when “consuming cannabis” will become as
essential as consuming vitamin supplements. The fact of the matter is that our endocannabinoid
system plays a vital role in our health and well being.
The endocannabinoid system is said to be fully matured roughly by the time you’re 25-years old.
Up until this point, your body creates a significant amount of endocannabinoids. Once it’s fully
mature, the endocannabinoid production drops significantly.
While you can get cannabinoids from many different foods and activities – the best source for
cannabinoids in nature is cannabis. The whole plant provides a wide range of cannabinoids and
terpenoids that interact with your internal organism at a very efficient rate.
If many of our old-age problems arise due to a lack of cannabinoids or an “endocannabinoid
Deficiency”, then consuming cannabis as a supplement makes sense.
Some people however are not interested in feeling “high” as they still have some prejudices about
euphoria in medicine. However, with cannabis you don’t necessarily have to get high. In fact,
juicing raw cannabis should be more than enough to replenish your endocannabinoid system
without running the risk of getting high.
This is because when cannabis is raw, the phytocannabinoids are in their “acid” state, which makes
them non-psychoactive. Seeing that non-psychoactive cannabis would also work in replenishing
your endocannabinoid system, it should stand to reason that a “smoothie of cannabis” a day can
keep the old age at bay!
The Sticky Bottom line
We’ve been told repeatedly that cannabis is bad for your brain! Except, now in 2021 we are finding
that it can be your last line of defense against mental decline as you age. Of course, this
information is still in its infancy and as we continue to progress and move forward with global
legalization – we’ll discover more accurately how cannabis interacts with our minds and bodies.

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In the meanwhile, the early evidence suggests that cannabis could be a very effective medicine for
any condition involving mental decline as we age – this includes dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other
neurocognitive diseases.
I know for certain that I’ll be consuming cannabis well into my old age. I might not be smoking it
always – but I’ll most certainly be using the raw plant in my smoothies every now and then, just to
replenish the loss of endocannabinoids that occur naturally as we age.
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