Does Cannabis really protect humans from Covid?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

Lots of hullaballoo this week of this study-
I wanted to link to the pub med article but cannot get it
to upload (Can single-degree temps mess with cable/internet uploads?)

The initial laboratory study published on Wednesday in the Journal of Natural Products was conducted by researchers at Oregon State’s Global Hemp Innovation Center. They found that two chemical compounds in hemp—cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, or CBDA—bound to the coronavirus spike proteins, which allow the virus to enter human cells.

https://fortune.com/2022/01/14/cannabis-covid-science-experts-weigh-in/

These two compounds are found in the raw form- Bud or flower that has not been decarboxylated (the conversion to the psychoactive compound by adding heat; smoking/ extracting)

Of these two compounds, I believe CBGA can be found in Delta 8. D8 is fairly new to the market and I haven't looked into it. I'm not sure how it is extracted.

I get this raw compound by blending green leaf in my smoothies or else Vitamixing into ice cubes.

Maybe it can be garnered by tincturing in vodka?

[airmid]

1. Isn't CBD fat soluble? I would think a an oil or butter infusion would work here as well.

[brewens]

2. I for one am not taking any chances. I'm ramping up my use, laying in more supply and

am making cannabutter so I can make some more edibles. COVID won't get me man!

[Walleye]

5. I went out yesterday and laid in two bottles of sativa tincture from the dispensary after reading it

[samnsara]

7. im putting my Levo to good use!!

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I found the premise hilarious

Especially considering how much time and effort right-wingers have spent over decades attacking the “evil weed.”

I suspect that the compound will have to be extracted by other methods to be most successfully.

[Walleye]

4. I actually think this is something that all sides could get behind

Curing Covid with weed. What’s not to like?

[samnsara]

6. par take every day and healthy as a horse..hubby in bed for 3 days after breakthru..

...he doesnt use due to his job. more proof than horse dewormer!

[3Hotdogs]

8. --- seems to me, there's only one way to find out. N.H.S. has a responsibility to set up a test,

giving out free grass to subjects and seeing who gets Rona. Now I figure it will take a few years to get the study right. But Il'm not sure how to conduct a blind study since participants might know who got the real weed and who got oregano.

SO --- that itself will require a few years of study.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

11. Set up the study with long haulers who

have long-term lost their taste and smell?

Lol

[lapfog_1]

9. the only study I've seen was in vitro

and not in life (vivo)... so maybe it works, maybe not.

Ivermectin was also good and preventing infection in a petri dish... but at concentrations that would be toxic to a human body.

so this is a wait and see.

bleach and UV light also deactivate the virus in a petri dish.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

10. Ha-ha

What about pee in a petri?

Indeed that was the question (in Vitro) in this study

I'm feeling this is a safer substance to use anectodally.

[lapfog_1]

12. There is "harm" and there is harm

Ivermectin, in the proper dose, is a very safe drug (the human prescription), however it doesn't really do much to the virus.

The harm is the thought process associated with it..."I have Ivermectin... I don't need anything else to treat Covid" or worse 'I don't need the vaccine because if I get Covid, I just treat it with Ivermectin."

the same sort of thought process could apply here. There are many on the left that are into anti-science anti-vax woo...

[PuraVidaDreamin]

13. I cannabis science

It's so fascinating and it has made a ton of headway into teaching the science of cannabis,
and how it helps create homeostasis within the whole body and all it's systems.

https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Handbook-Nurses-Carey-Clark-ebook-dp-B08SCP1WK4/dp/B08SCP1WK4/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1642278372

The book above is all about the science.

I've been assisting clients as a cannabis nurse educator for the past three years.

The American Cannabis Nurses Association ACNA is very close to becoming a professional certification.

[tishaLA]

14. Jimmy Kimmel did a bit about this the other day

He said that he always rejected the ivermectin and hydro BS on FB, but this is a treatment he totally supports.