{"id":106875,"date":"2020-05-10T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cannabis-shows-promise-blocking-coronavirus-infection-alberta-researcher"},"modified":"2020-05-10T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:02:18","slug":"cannabis-shows-promise-blocking-coronavirus-infection-alberta-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/cannabis-shows-promise-blocking-coronavirus-infection-alberta-researcher","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis shows promise blocking coronavirus infection: Alberta researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cannabis-shows-promise-blocking-coronavirus-infection-alberta-researcher.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCannabis extracts are showing potential in making people more resistant to the novel coronavirus, says an Alberta researcher leading a study.<\/p>\n<p>After sifting through 400 cannabis strains, researchers at the University of Lethbridge are concentrating on about a dozen that show promising results in ensuring less fertile ground for the potentially lethal virus to take root, said biological scientist Dr. Igor Kovalchuk.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But the absence of clinical trials remains a barrier, and funding from an increasingly cash-strapped cannabis industry isn\u2019t there to fuel that, said Kovalchuk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have clinicians who are willing to work with us but for a lot of companies in the cannabis business, it\u2019s significant cash that they can\u2019t afford,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist emphasized the findings wouldn\u2019t lead to a vaccine \u2014 something \u201cless specific and precise\u201d but nonetheless another possible weapon against COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCannabis extracts are showing potential in making people more resistant to the novel coronavirus, says an Alberta researcher leading a study. After sifting through 400 cannabis strains, researchers at the University of Lethbridge are concentrating on about a dozen that show promising results in ensuring less fertile ground for the potentially lethal virus to take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}