By A.J. Herrington, Forbes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Contributor.\u00a0\u00a0A.J. Herrington is freelance writer covering weed news and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compounds in cannabis have the potential to prevent and treat Covid-19, according to a review of research published last month. The study found that cannabis compounds known as cannabinoids could prevent infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, as well as lessen the severity of the disease after it has been contracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCannabinoids have the potential to be used as a preventive approach to limiting the susceptibility and severity of COVID-19 infections by preventing viral entry, mitigating oxidative stress, and alleviating the associated cytokine storm,\u201d the authors of the study wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study<\/a>, which was reported<\/a> by cannabis new source Marijuana Moment on Wednesday, was conducted by researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, who conducted a thorough review of the available scientific literature. The research focused on numerous prior studies that investigated how endocannabinoid system (ECS) modulation might affect patients in the early and post-infection stages of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Previous research has shown that cannabis might affect Covid-19, including a laboratory study published in 2022 that showed cannabinoids prevented infection<\/a> of human cells by SARS-CoV-2. A separate study published in October found that cannabis users who contracted Covid-19 had better outcomes and reduced mortality<\/a> compared with non-cannabis users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new study also found that cannabinoids could one day be used to treat patients with long Covid, a group of persistent health problems that can last for weeks, months or years following a bout with Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By A.J. Herrington, Forbes \u00a0Contributor.\u00a0\u00a0A.J. Herrington is freelance writer covering weed news and culture. Compounds in cannabis have the potential to prevent and treat Covid-19, according to a review of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,1225,592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mortality","category-thc","category-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11910,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions\/11910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Cannabis Might Help Patients With Long-Covid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n