From: Ian Goddard (IAN@GODDARD.NET)
Date: Sat Jul 11 1998 - 23:40:58 MDT
Excerpts from an Associated Press report
about discovering a new "potent antioxidant."
Possible Stroke Drug Is Tested
Monday, July 6, 1998; 1:24 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal scientists have begun
testing in rats a chemical from marijuana that they
say appears to protect brain cells during a stroke.
``This is a better candidate'' against stroke than
other marijuana chemicals, said Aiden Hampson of
the National Institute of Mental Health.
His study, published in this week's Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, found that in a
test tube, cannabidiol proved to be a potent anti-
oxidant that protected animal brain cells exposed
to the toxic neurochemical that is produced during
a stroke.
Until now, cannabidiol had been considered an inactive
ingredient, Hampson said. It was studied as a possible
drug for Huntington's disease a decade ago but failed
to work. However, scientists who gave high doses to
people at that time uncovered no serious side
effects, he said.
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19980706/V000086-070698-idx.html
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