I was on Farcebook earlier today, and caught not one, but two ads using the hashtag #dementiaawareness. (I was looking for something else.) I reported them to Farcebook as lies, and they disappeared, so sadly I can’t share screenshots.

But basically, y’all know the drill: “Did you know you can cure dementia with this one simple thing?” I had to double-check—yup, it was “sponsored content.” Someone paid to put it there.

Clicked through to a long rambling bunch of yadda yadda, coming from a Very Important MD with Very Big Credentials (you can read that in tRump’s voice if you wish…), who has seen through the falsehoods of conventional therapies. Yes, all of the side-effects which the (white, male, pretty-boy) doctor lists for donepezil are truthful. Similar padding and truthful (but partial) information about other established medical interventions.

After pages and pages of half-truths, we get to the point: all you have to do to permanently reverse and cure dementia is buy our cannabis gummies! Here is a picture of Jane Doe with dementia, and here is a picture of Jane Doe after just one week taking our gummies! Wow!!!

  • ZenGrammy@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    I hate those ads too. While some people may find some medicinal or comfort or whatever value in those gummies, they are not a cure for anything.

  • 108beads@lemm.eeOPM
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    1 year ago

    Aaargh. THIS is why I’m DONE with Reddit.

    I’m on a Discord which links to r/dementia, and IFTTT links to new r/dementia posts. (So I can see what gets posted but don’t have to favor Reddit with my traffic).

    Recent post on r/dementia was an article clip: https://cannabis.net/blog/news/son-creates-thcinfused-lemonade-to-help-his-mother-with-earlyonset-alzheimers-symptoms

    NO, dag-nabnit (or stronger curse-words, if you prefer), THC is NOT a cure for Alzheimer’s, not a responsible way to ameliorate symptoms. Dosing people with dementia with psychoactives, without any medical consultation just because you “know a little” about weed, is stupid, dangerous, totally messed up. Pharmaceuticals act very differently in brains with dementia than they do in brains without dementia. I’ve had a front-row seat to the difference.

    And yeah, the article with this f####d up advice is on a commercial site. Doesn’t sell THC (yet) as that ain’t legal, but they sell paraphenalia.

    What the blank were the r/dementia mods thinking letting that post through???