Short Term Memory Is Over-Rated

While short term memory is over-rated, Marijuana-like compound may fight Alzheimer's.

Marijuana has strong anti-inflammatory effects. "This is why I believe that people who used marijuana a few decades ago are much less likely to develop any disease, such as Alzheimer's, that relies upon the slow development of brain inflammation," Wenk told Reuters Health.

So while your short term memory may get a little fried, those bits that do stick won't slip away later in life. Besides, short term memory is over-rated.

Now if the Alzheimer's patients could only remember where they hid their stash. But I hear short term memory is over-rated.