Cannabis

PuraVidaDreamin

(4,220 posts) Sat Jan 15, 2022, 07:52 AM Jan 2022

Does Cannabis really protect humans from Covid?

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?

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Does Cannabis really protect humans from Covid? (Original Post) PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2022 OP

Isn't CBD fat soluble? I would think a an oil or butter infusion would work here as well. airmid Jan 2022 #1

I for one am not taking any chances. I'm ramping up my use, laying in more supply and brewens Jan 2022 #2

I went out yesterday and laid in two bottles of sativa tincture from the dispensary after reading it Walleye Jan 2022 #5

im putting my Levo to good use!! samnsara Jan 2022 #7

I found the premise hilarious Vogon_Glory Jan 2022 #3

I actually think this is something that all sides could get behind Walleye Jan 2022 #4

par take every day and healthy as a horse..hubby in bed for 3 days after breakthru.. samnsara Jan 2022 #6

--- seems to me, there's only one way to find out. N.H.S. has a responsibility to set up a test, 3Hotdogs Jan 2022 #8

Set up the study with long haulers who PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2022 #11

the only study I've seen was in vitro lapfog_1 Jan 2022 #9

Ha-ha PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2022 #10

There is "harm" and there is harm lapfog_1 Jan 2022 #12

I cannabis science PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2022 #13

Jimmy Kimmel did a bit about this the other day tishaLA Jan 2022 #14

airmid

(506 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 07:56 AM

Jan 2022

brewens

(15,359 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 07:57 AM

Jan 2022

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

Walleye

(35,672 posts)

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

Reply to brewens (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:03 AM

Jan 2022

samnsara

(18,282 posts)

7. im putting my Levo to good use!!

Reply to brewens (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:08 AM

Jan 2022

Vogon_Glory

(9,571 posts)

3. I found the premise hilarious

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 07:58 AM

Jan 2022

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

(35,672 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:00 AM

Jan 2022

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

samnsara

(18,282 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:05 AM

Jan 2022

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

3Hotdogs

(13,398 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:16 AM

Jan 2022

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

(4,220 posts)

11. Set up the study with long haulers who

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Reply #8)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 09:05 AM

Jan 2022

have long-term lost their taste and smell?

Lol

lapfog_1

(30,158 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 08:23 AM

Jan 2022

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

(4,220 posts)

10. Ha-ha

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #9)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 09:02 AM

Jan 2022

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

(30,158 posts)

12. There is "harm" and there is harm

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Reply #10)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 12:06 PM

Jan 2022

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

(4,220 posts)

13. I cannabis science

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #12)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 03:35 PM

Jan 2022

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

(14,321 posts)

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

Reply to PuraVidaDreamin (Original post)

Sat Jan 15, 2022, 04:29 PM

Jan 2022

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

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