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September 07, 2008
Marijuana Ingredient May Fight Bacteria
Posted by Gary Storck
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Scientists outside of the United States continue to discover amazing medicinal benefits from cannabis and its cannabinoid components. It is a national shame that the U.S. has had a longstanding policy of refusing to study cannabis and of denying documented benefits of the cannabis plant. If the U.S. truly valued science and the health and well being of its citizens, this would have never been allowed to happen and these benefits might have been known years or decades earlier. That is the price of blind allegiance to cannabis prohibition.
This story is interesting personally, as I myself suffered a spreading staph infection after open-heart surgery in 1997, and required surgery and massive doses of the strongest antibiotics available to eventually recover. If cannabis were treated like the wonder plant it truly is, this treatment may have been available for use much earlier instead of just being documented in the year 2008.
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Source: New York Times: Continues: click here..
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Marijuana Ingredient May Fight Bacteria.Marijuana may be something of a wonder drug — though perhaps not in the way you might think.
Researchers in Italy and Britain have found that the main active ingredient in marijuana — tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC — and related compounds show promise as antibacterial agents, particularly against microbial strains that are already resistant to several classes of drugs.
It has been known for decades that Cannabis sativa has antibacterial properties. Experiments in the 1950s tested various marijuana preparations against skin and other infections, but researchers at the time had little understanding of marijuana’s chemical makeup.
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Posted by Gary at September 7, 2008 10:06 AM
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