Smoking marijuana will not protect you from the novel coronavirus, no matter what anyone says and no matter how much certain people want it to be true.
However, if taken in the right way and at the right amount, the cannabis compound CBD might lessen the severity of COVID-19 infection and even prevent the virus’s spread, new research published this week found.
What’s more, new anecdotal evidence suggests that people—not lab mice, and not isolated human cells, but human beings—who were prescribed regular high-potency doses of pharmaceutical-grade CBD were less likely to contract COVID, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science Advances.
“Our research suggest that CBD and its metabolite 7-OH-CBD,” which is a compound produced after the body processes CBD, “can block SARS-Cov-2 infection at early and even later stages of infection,” wrote the researchers, led by academics at the University of Chicago.
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Thursday’s findings come on the heels of research published last week that found cannibidiolic acid—or CBD-A, the precursor molecule to CBD, as well as other similar cannabis acids that become the familiar cannabinoids when heated—prevented the entry of the coronavirus into isolated human cells.
Taken together, these findings are fueling a…
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Smoking marijuana will not protect you from the novel coronavirus, no matter what anyone says and no matter how much certain people want it to be true.
However, if taken in the right way and at the right amount, the cannabis compound CBD might lessen the severity of COVID-19 infection and even prevent the virus’s spread, new research published this week found.
What’s more, new anecdotal evidence suggests that people—not lab mice, and not isolated human cells, but human beings—who were prescribed regular high-potency doses of pharmaceutical-grade CBD were less likely to contract COVID, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science Advances.
“Our research suggest that CBD and its metabolite 7-OH-CBD,” which is a compound produced after the body processes CBD, “can block SARS-Cov-2 infection at early and even later stages of infection,” wrote the researchers, led by academics at the University of Chicago.
LONGMONT, CO. October 10, – Janea Cox, director of the Flowering H.O.P.E. Foundation bottles … [+]
Denver Post via Getty Images
Thursday’s findings come on the heels of research published last week that found cannibidiolic acid—or CBD-A, the precursor molecule to CBD, as well as other similar cannabis acids that become the familiar cannabinoids when heated—prevented the entry of the coronavirus into isolated human cells.
Taken together, these findings are fueling a…
