WASHINGTON - Good news for aging hippies: smoking pot may stave off Alzheimer?s disease.
 
New research shows that the active ingredient in marijuana may prevent the progression of the disease by preserving levels of an important neurotransmitter that allows the brain to function.
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15145917/

I had a response ... but I seem to have forgotten it.
 
Bill, tgo

order up a very large pizza and you will get over it.-----chuck

Twinkies... and cupcakes!
 
ooh... a large chocolate shake
 
and potato chips
 
and a burger
 

Only white pizza will do.

Maybe I'm gonna have to look into a little preventive medicine . . .

This thread has gone to pot.
 
Oh, almost forgot:  Beer and Bikes!
 
My work here is done...

Makes sense to me, The cars not gonna' run out of gas if you never drive it.

and lets not forget to put on a hendricks album and take a nap.  OOOOh the sixties were good.------chuck

If you can remember the 60's, you weren't really there.
 
Just got back from the A's game.  BRING ON THE YANKEES (or the Tigers)!  GO A's  MARCO SCUTARO!!!!!
 
Bill, tgo

bill---who could forget the sixties, nickel bags, boones farm,folk music,55 cheveys for $400.00,humping 80 pounds of gear through a stinking jungle.watching my country rot from the inside out.I got over it.or did I? nuff said--------chuck

Is that what we're called now?  Foraging hippies?
 
Rick

You know, many parts of pine cones are edible
   -Euell Gibbons
 
 
P.S. was he related to Billy Gibbons?
Mike

In other news, we found other significant health benefits, but we forgot what they were.
 
Are you going to eat that?
 
Bradley

It is all good news for us aging hippies....Don't trust anyone over 97!