In other news, it seems that my favorite herb can help stave off the mental ravages of Alzheimer's Disease. Not that this knowledge would be anything but further impetus for the government, owned in part as it is by the pharmaceutical industry, to do anything but try harder to clamp down on it. After all, the medical industry is about making Pfizer and Merck rich enough to continue that lucrative lobbying and election financing. If some people are cured along the way, well, that's okay too.

One thing bugs me, though. I've known chronic use of the Chronic to make some people forgetful. Some really heavy users even become absent-minded.

Just how easy is it to tell the difference between a 75 year old with Alzheimer's and a 75 year old that's been stoned for 60 years?????