August 27, 2008
Pot is good for you? Marijuana fights the superbugs
Scientific American - Posted: August 27th, 2008, 5:54pm EDT
Good news for potheads making their annual trek to Black Rock, Nev., this week to celebrate Burning Man: A new study says that marijuana appears to fight infections. According to research published in the Journal of Natural Products, the five most common cannabinoid compounds in weed--tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol, cannabigerol, cannabinol and cannabichromene--can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Think MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which claimed more lives than AIDS in 2007 or, more recently, extensively drug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis (XDR-TB.) [More]
