In the weeks after lockdowns began as Covid-19 took hold in the United States, a bunch of crazies and charlatans began declaring that cannabis could “cure” covid. I wrote a cover story about them for the East Bay Express in May 2020. Some were just the usual loons who declare such things all the time—“pot can cure cancer,” many of them still like to say—and others were shady CBD peddlers hoping to get terrified people to buy their products.
This month, researchers at Oregon State University announced they had determined that certain compounds in the cannabis plant might prevent Covid infection from occurring.
So, does that mean the crazies and charlatans were right, and maybe that they aren’t crazies and charlatans after all? Not at all.
First, even if it were proven beyond the hint of a doubt that eating a pot gummy would prevent Covid, and then everybody in the world ate one, ending the pandemic, it would say nothing about the claims that were bandied about in the early days of Covid. They were entirely baseless. Made up. Similarly, if it turned out that cellphone towers really were causing cancer, that wouldn’t validate the ravings of the nuts who now declare it to be so. Making declarations isn’t science, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would still be an insufferable mountebank who should be ignored.
But second, the study doesn’t actually prove that cannabis can prevent infections, despite the majority of media treatments of the results…
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In the weeks after lockdowns began as Covid-19 took hold in the United States, a bunch of crazies and charlatans began declaring that cannabis could “cure” covid. I wrote a cover story about them for the East Bay Express in May 2020. Some were just the usual loons who declare such things all the time—“pot can cure cancer,” many of them still like to say—and others were shady CBD peddlers hoping to get terrified people to buy their products.
This month, researchers at Oregon State University announced they had determined that certain compounds in the cannabis plant might prevent Covid infection from occurring.
So, does that mean the crazies and charlatans were right, and maybe that they aren’t crazies and charlatans after all? Not at all.
First, even if it were proven beyond the hint of a doubt that eating a pot gummy would prevent Covid, and then everybody in the world ate one, ending the pandemic, it would say nothing about the claims that were bandied about in the early days of Covid. They were entirely baseless. Made up. Similarly, if it turned out that cellphone towers really were causing cancer, that wouldn’t validate the ravings of the nuts who now declare it to be so. Making declarations isn’t science, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would still be an insufferable mountebank who should be ignored.
But second, the study doesn’t actually prove that cannabis can prevent infections, despite the majority of media treatments of the results…
