Marijuana Aids Sonoma County Alzheimer's Patients
Marijuana can make life better for some of the more than 5 million Americans afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, but despite an encouraging new study, it remains a long shot as an antidote to the brain disorder that claims about 85,000 lives a year, experts say.
Some assisted-living facilities and physicians in Sonoma County are quietly administering medical marijuana to patients — with consent from legally responsible parties — for behavioral management, quelling aggression and agitation in people who are losing recognition of their surroundings.
In appropriate dosage, typically using edibles and tinctures, cannabis can have a “robust therapeutic effect,” said Dr. Phillip Grob, a Santa Rosa geriatric psychiatrist who has recommended marijuana for 50 to 100 patients since 2003.
For managing patients with “complicated dementia,” such as extreme agitation, cannabis is safer than the antipsychotic drugs typically prescribed, Grob said. No pharmaceuticals have Food and Drug Administration approval for such...
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