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November 18, 2003
Good news for head injury trauma victims
"An altered version of cannabis could be the first drug ever to shield the brain from the cascade of injury that follows head trauma", according to Kristen Philipkoski of Wired News. Apparently, "three basic processes contribute to damaging the brain when injury occurs, and the cannabis-derived drug acts on all of them: inflammation, neuron death and the breakdown of communication between neurons". Read all about it at http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,61239,00.html/wn_ascii Posted by belinda at November 18, 2003 11:08 AMEmail this