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1. Marijuana will not prevent COVID

By Dr. Eve Glazier and Dr. Elizabeth Ko
2/20/2022 9:09 AM

Q: Please help us explain to our kids that using marijuana doesn't keep you from getting COVID-19. We're particularly focused on our two older sons, who are quoting a study that says it supposedly does, and who are in college in a state that just legalized recreational cannabis.

A: The study your sons are referring to comes from researchers at Oregon State University's Linus Pauling Institute. According to their findings, which were recently published in the Journal of Nature Products, two compounds found in cannabis were effective at protecting cells from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...

In a search for a compound that can attack the coronavirus at the molecular level, the researchers had identified CBGA and CBDA. These cannabinoids can bind to the distinctive spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus, which it uses to breach cell membranes. That spike protein is the same structure that is targeted by vaccines and in antibody therapy. When something binds to the coronavirus spike protein in the right way, it disrupts the crucial pathway that the virus uses to infect cells ...

For those who may be hoping for antiviral results from the tiny amounts of CBGA and CBDA found in marijuana, it's helpful to know that heat from smoking, vaping or cooking destroys those two compounds ...

https://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20220220/no-ingesting-marijuana-will-not-prevent-covid-19