{"id":6709,"date":"2009-08-31T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2009-08-31T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T15:44:21","slug":"which-is-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6709","title":{"rendered":"Which Is To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/08\/marijuana-goes-mainstream.html\">The Dish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs Roger Nicoll, a neuroscientist at UCSF, puts it: \u201cThe brain makes its own marijuana.\u201d Smoking a joint just helps you make more of it.) While these cannabinoid receptors have been targeted for the treatment of a wide variety of ailments and disorders, from obesity to chronic pain, I think they might hold the most promise for the treatment of anxiety. <strong>There's now good evidence that mice lacking a normal cannabinoid receptor have difficulty forgetting or unlearning fearful memories.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is a roundabout way of saying what everybody knows: pot makes you forgetful. But now it's a feature, not a bug. Awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Dish: As Roger Nicoll, a neuroscientist at UCSF, puts it: \u201cThe brain makes its own marijuana.\u201d Smoking a joint just helps you make more of it.) While these cannabinoid receptors have been targeted for the treatment of a wide variety of ailments and disorders, from obesity to chronic pain, I think they might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}