No, Smoking Weed Won’t Help You Avoid Covid - Gizmodo

A new study that found compounds in cannabis could stop the coronavirus from infecting cells has understandably captured the internet’s attention this week.

But while the findings are worth following up on, people shouldn’t get too excited yet, as the researchers are very clear that simply smoking or otherwise ingesting cannabis isn’t going to make someone covid-proof.

The team identified two such potential compounds from the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa): cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, or CBDA.

They then ran further tests in the lab and found that both cannabinoids did indeed seem to prevent the coronavirus from infecting human cells normally vulnerable to it.

Both CBGA and CBDA are precursors to CBG and CBD, which are found in the cannabis that people take recreationally or medicinally.