Marijuana Messes up Memory, Painkiller Prevents Problem
A new study suggests that pain relievers found in many medicine cabinets may help prevent some of these learning and memory problems, especially useful to medicinal smokers who wish to keep their head clear.
Researchers found that mice treated with THC had an increase in levels of a chemical called cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in the hippocampus. Ibuprofane and Celebrex are painkillers which lower the COX-2 level, and so these findings suggest that giving people a COX-2 inhibitor drug along with medical marijuana may help to problems linked with its long-term treatment.
Moreover, marijuana helps counterfeit the side-effects of painkillers such as gastrointestinal inflammation because the endocannabinoid catabolic enzymes protect against gastropathy.
The gathered data indicates that the phytocannabinoid Δ(9)-THC protects against diclofenac-induced gastric inflammatory tissue damage.
Further testing is still needed in human clinical trials. At this point, it's still too early to determine the dose or frequency of Celebrex or ibuprofen, but it's surely interesting...
