Memory - WTF??

This morning my wife mentioned the Anthony sentencing which was yesterday - and to me - I wasn't sure if it was yesterday or 3 days ago. My memory is gone - UNLESS - I just got Sirius Radio in my car and have it on a 50's station. I can remember almost every song, with lyrics from 55 years ago. WTF is that about? Yesterday is forgotten - but songs from 50 years ago - no problem. I fear what this portends.
Anybody else out there with this problem?? Is it age or drugs or both?? or maybe I'm becoming senile.

 

You know what they say about marijuana and short term memory don't you?
You know what they say about marijuana and short term memory don't you?
You know what they say about marijuana and short term memory don't you?

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

I remember when I used to remember, I just don't remember when it was.

 

You might give some thought to seeing a geriatric specialist, Doright. Alzheimer's (or just dementia in general) is nothing to joke about. Most dementia unfortunately isn't really treatable, but some kinds are caused by diet or whatnot and obviously they can be treated. Good luck!

 

I wouldnt give much memory to that **** either.

Short term memories are not backup in the main processor unless you use the program more often..

 

Thanks Granny - I am joking - might as well. If I'm fading - so be it - not much to do about it. I think though I'm just funnin - with age comes short term memory loss. My is probably a little worse than most - but I still know how to get home.

 

Ill forget what I went downstairs for all the time. Even when I know exactly what I went there for..

 

I can't imagine age and years of drugs and alcohol use (abuse?) have anything to do with it.

 

This old man is sitting on a park bench crying. Another old man sits down next to him and asks what is wrong. He replies, "I met a wonderful young nymphomaniac the sex is great and constant and I just needed a rest." His friend asked him why he is crying. He responds,"I forgot where I live."

My grandfather had Alzheimers and found that pot was one thing that helped.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Now THAT'S what I like to hear,,

 

Helped in what way? If you're saying that smoking pot can reverse the effects of Alzheimer's (i.e., returning peoples' memory and cognitive function), then you have made a medical discovery of monumental proportions, and at which the medical establishment would be astounded (of course, it wouldn't be the first time that happened!).

But if you're saying that it just made him feel better, well, that's something entirely different.

 

Maybe hash just allowed him to forget that he'd forgotten everything

 

No - I have found that these substances actually enhance brain function - I forget where I read that

 

First off before he got stoned he would have to strain to remember things. As he would strain he would forget more and get more frustrated and flustered. Kind of like when you are trying to remember a word in conversation or a fact and it slips your mind so you get more worked up and then when you stop thinking about it it comes to you. Then he'd get stoned and everything he was trying to remember would come back to him. And if he didn't remember he wouldn't get pissed off he would just start laughing.

As for the medical establishment. They are now doing the first research in Spain using THC to treat cancer. During the past 20 years they have been doing tests on rats injecting pure THC into tumors. They found that they could reverse up to stage 4 cancer in rats. Now they are trying it out on humans. There is no way in hell the medical establishment in the US would try something like the devil weed on anything. They would probably lose funding.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Well, I dunno. I'd have to keep a healthy dose of skepticism about this. After a century of research by the brightest minds at the most respected universities in the entire world, and many billions of dollars spent, there still has not been found a "cure" for cancer.

Yet you're saying that the secret all along has been a little THC???? Rev, I would think your "BS meter" would be flashing lights and ringing bells about now.

 

I like flashing lights and ringing bells. It's groovy, man,,

 

The thing is that I first heard about this study about 20 years ago. And we're not taking about a little THC here we're talking mega doses. My BS meter red lights about the cure for cancer after talking to a friend of my dad's who worked for the cancer society who acknowledged that there is more money being made not finding a cure then there would be if there were a cure. If money could be made off a cure for cancer it would be cured by now.

We are currently in the middle of a multi-million dollar, multi-national drug war that isn't working because there are too many people on both sides making way too much money on it.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Falling for massive, world-wide conspiracy theories based on an offhanded anecdote from a "friend of a friend"? Oh my.

I just can't accept that thousands of researchers at hundreds of institutions all around the world over the past several decades are all involved in such a conspiracy. That totally defies credulity.

Possibly, but I don't see what that has to do with cancer research.

 

If there were a cure then those thousands of researchers at hundreds of institutions would be out of a job. Those thousands of institutions would have to close their doors. The researchers might be able to find work if they were the ones to find the actual cure. If they weren't they were trained and spent the last 20 years in a very specialized and very competitive field with very little transferable skills. Then there are the "unskilled" workers. Custodians, secretaries, groundskeepers, facilities coordinators etc. Then there are the Asbestos lawyers, the victims families etc. It's a big business. Since when has big business been the stellar example of kindness.

I got distracted when I started on the drug war thing. I was going to draw parallels about how it will never be over because too many people on both sides making too much money.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

So what do you think those thousands of researchers do all day? Do you really believe they just sit on their hands, writing up their next research grant for which they do ... nothing?

And for that matter, do you really think that if they found a "cure", their work would stop and all those thousands of researchers would be tossed out on the street???? How short-sighted. Every new discovery leads to new questions and new research opportunities. That's the way it's always been.

But even if what you say is true, that implies that there would never be any progress made in anything, because everyone would suppress the results for fear that they would put themselves out of a job. We'd still be in the Stone Age!

Rev, I usually agree with you on stuff, but hon, you're out in left field on this one. I'll bow out now. You can have the last word if you want