The researchers found that a pair of hemp compounds bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking a vital step in the deadly bug’s path to infect people.
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Well, now it's that interesting.
The researchers found that a pair of hemp compounds — cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, CBDA — bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking a vital step in the deadly bug’s path to infect people.
“CBDA and CBGA are produced by the hemp plant as precursors to CBD and CBG, which are familiar to many consumers. However, they are different from the acids and are not contained in hemp products,” van Breemen said.
“Our data show CBDA and CBGA are effective against the two variants we looked at, and we hope that trend will extend to other existing and future variants,” he added.
But don’t plan on smoking weed to ward off the illness.
“The benefit for preventing viral infection of cells must come from cannabinoid acids, which are heat sensitive and must not be smoked, or it would convert them to CBD and so forth,” van Breemen said. “So that wouldn’t work for the antiviral effect.”
This makes a lot of since; the precursor cannabanoids do have huge anti-inflamatory potentcy already, a lot of growers spend a lot of time and energy to get the precurors out of immature plants. However, that means a lot more waste plant, if you use normal mairjuana/hemp strains available to consumers.
This might be what people in the industry refer to as Rick Simpson Oil, which is a very price, high end product to produce, and messy as crap in the extraction.
However it cannot be heated, or it breaks down, so smoking it would render it useless, and mature flower plants have no real precursor left in them. it has to be taken orally, so as a sort of very thick and odd tasting syrup of a sort, or maybe a hard candy.