[Dismas]

A recent study found that compounds from cannabis have preventative effects when it comes to COVID-19. Probably safer than Ivermectin.

Compounds in cannabis can prevent infection from the virus that causes Covid-19 by blocking its entry into cells, according to a study published this week by researchers affiliated with Oregon State University. A report on the research, “Cannabinoids Block Cellular Entry of SARS-CoV-2 and the Emerging Variants,” was published online on Monday by the Journal of Natural Products.

The researchers found that two cannabinoid acids commonly found in hemp varietals of cannabis, cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, also known as CBDA, can bind to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. By binding to the spike protein, the compounds can prevent the virus from entering cells and causing infection, potentially offering new avenues to prevent and treat the disease.

Orally bioavailable and with a long history of safe human use, these cannabinoids, isolated or in hemp extracts, have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2,” the researchers wrote in an abstract of the study.

The study was led by Richard van Breemen, a researcher with Oregon State’s Global Hemp Innovation Center in the College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute, in collaboration with scientists at the Oregon Health & Science University. Van Breeman said that the cannabinoids studied are common and readily available.

“These cannabinoid acids are abundant in hemp and in many hemp extracts,” van Breemen said, as quoted by local media. “They are not controlled substances like THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and have a good safety profile in humans.”

Read More: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajherringto...-19-virus/

[Marshland]

Meanwhile in other news, Cannabis usage up a billion percent

[jimm.kenobi]

It is crazy how there is still so much stuff we just dont know about medical science yet

[hadid21]

I think that with such a slogan, we should go out to the squares and demand the legalization of weed, because it helps in the fight against Covid, especially considering the situation in the world. I now use the Medical Marijuana Card In New York to buy it legally, but it would be better if, I could buy it without any health problems, just because I wanted to.

[Larkas]

Please, stop this anti-science dung. For more than hundred years people successfully use vaccines.

[Dismas]

Please, stop this anti-science dung. For more than hundred years people successfully use vaccines.

Their research is legitimate. They're not suggesting cannabinoids are a suitable replacement for vaccination. They're stating that cannabinoids have preventative effects when it comes to COVID.

Information on the study is here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/

[CraigM]

Whhhaaaattt, that's foolish!

[freak69]

people would say anything to reach their goal

[ExpectER]

Wtf why don't know that before

[gin77]

Two years have passed, still no human studies ˙◠˙