Posted on 03/01/2021 11:54:36 AM PST by RideForever
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The chemical in marijuana that makes people high may be effective in treating a potentially lethal coronavirus (COVID-19) complication, researchers at the University of South Carolina recently announced.
The researchers quoted studies, co-published by Prakash Nagarkatti, which found that the chemical THC, the most mind-altering chemical in marijuana, prevented a harmful immune response that causes Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in mice and caused a significant increase in healthy lung bacteria.
Three studies, published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, the British Journal of Pharmacology and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, were conducted by giving mice a toxin that triggered the harmful immune reaction that causes ARDS and then injecting mice with THC, according to the studies’ abstracts, as reported in The State, the daily student newspaper at the University of South Carolina.
With ARDS, “The underlying mechanism in your immune system goes haywire and starts destroying your lungs and all your other organs,” Nagarkatti told The State.
Dozens of experiments were conducted in the three separate studies and 100% of the mice given THC survived, Nagarkatti told The State.
While the many differences between mice and humans mean lab results in mice don’t always directly translate into real-life results for humans, Nagarkatti said he was blown away at the effectiveness of THC in treating ARDS. There is no FDA-approved drug right now to treat ARDS, Nagarkatti said.
Nagarkatti has recommended that health officials begin human trials with THC, he told The State.
However, he said that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea for people to smoke marijuana if they think they have coronavirus. Since THC suppresses the immune response, smoking marijuana recreationally can actually make a coronavirus infection worse.
I'm starting to wonder if there is anything that doesn't kill CoVId19, except what the politicized WHO / NIH / CDC recommends?
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For your interest.
[[THC, the most mind-altering chemical in marijuana, prevented a harmful immune response that causes Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in mice ]]
So anyone with mie- get your prescriptions now to protect them
[[I’m starting to wonder if there is anything that doesn’t kill CoVId19]]
Yes, masks, lockdowns, restrictions, and no school fails to stop covid
If it works like a vaccine, I’ll be just fine.
Yet another aspect of COVID that seems to come down on the side of the Left. It’s amazing how EVERY aspect of COVID seems to do that.
If the marijuana is grown in China, well maybe.....
I’m wondering if there’s anything marijuana WON’T cure!
You know what I think? I think the left has invested heavily in Marijuana and will use the profits against America itself.
I don’t believe this and I don’t see any good side to encouraging the youth to take drugs.
Me neither. Who is encouraging the youth to take drugs, and how are they doing so?
I told you I didn’t need the mystery vaccine - already covered! 😆
I don’t believe that anyone is “encouraging” kids to do drugs. Young people will see what their peers are doing and will try to fit in. I certainly did and I’m not the exception. Young folks will do as their generation is doing. Whether it’s sex, pot or something else. To deny that fact is just pretending it won’t happen. I can promise you your children had sex, drank beer, more than you would like to admit. And I suspect they turned out just fine....like we and the generation before us did.
All of those adults that get up their high horse and lecture young people need to remember they were young once and probably did the same things. I’ve never met the perfect adult but I certainly have met a lot of hypocrites.
LOL
WTF ever...
I don’t want any vaccine.
And I don’t EVER want any pot (based on way ancient experiences).
But, if I can pull out a joint and light it up to avoid vaccine requirements, I might violate my life long vow.
Yep. Stupidity. Sloth. Body odor. Yellow teeth. Retarded social skills. Scumbag personality. Etc.
“I’m starting to wonder if there is anything that doesn’t kill CoVId19, except what the politicized WHO / NIH / CDC recommends?”
Probably the vaccine...
I’m using preemptive systemic internal disinfectant with the quart of bourbon I drink every day..... I got over Kung Flu just fine.
To hear some tell it, legalizing marijuana for adults is the same as sticking lit joints in kids' mouths.
I certainly have met a lot of hypocrites.
Same here - like the ones who tie themselves in knots arguing that marijuana must remain illegal while the more deadly and addictive drug alcohol must remain legal.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201008142132.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2020/19_0206.htm
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