{"id":102,"date":"2015-11-05T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/?p=102"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:11:38","slug":"science-scavenger-hunt-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/2015\/11\/05\/science-scavenger-hunt-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Scavenger Hunt Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commonly know leisure drug, marijuana might have an important role in the medical field in coming years to help treat conditions ranging from brain injuries to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Maa is an epilepsy and neurologist specialist at the University of Denver Colorado and had recently noticed how most of his patients had to turn to marijuana to help treat and cure their illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent article done by David Noonan in the <em>Scientific American, <\/em>studies suggest that tetrahydrocannabinal (THC), the main chemical found in marijuana might protect neurons in the brain from trauma and slow the growth of tumors and reduce brain damage in an Alzheimer patients brain.<\/p>\n<p>The study is still in the works because most of the research is done in test tubes and rarely done on humans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Scientific American volume 312 Number 2 February 2015 pg 32-34<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commonly know leisure drug, marijuana might have an important role in the medical field in coming years to help treat conditions ranging from brain injuries to cancer. Edward Maa is an epilepsy and neurologist specialist at the University of Denver Colorado and had recently noticed how most of his patients had to turn to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":915,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tajaprince13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}