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Reposted from @beardbros_pharms Two Canadian researchers think that a special strain of cannabis might potentially be a valuable tool in the fight against COVID-19. - The researchers, Olga and Igor Kovalchuck have reportedly been developing and testing a novel cannabis strain for years, except with the goal of creating a strain that helps to combat cancer and inflammation. When the pandemic hit, the duo started to focus their efforts on how the strain might be used to help fight COVID-19. - The duo’s work was published in an April issue of the online medical journal Preprints. - “Similar to other respiratory pathogens, SARS-CoV2 is transmitted through respiratory droplets, with potential for aerosol and contact spread. It uses receptor-mediated entry into the human host via angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2) that is expressed in lung tissue, as well as oral and nasal mucosa, kidney, testes, and the gastrointestinal tract,” reads the study. “Modulation of ACE2 levels in these gateway tissues may prove a plausible strategy for decreasing disease susceptibility.” - After looking at the research done on cannabis and COVID by other scientists, they were able to determine that cannabis, a special strain in particular, could potentially block COVID-19 from entering a person’s body to begin with. - It all comes down to our body’s ACE2 receptors, which works sort of like doorways into our bodies for the virus. In the case of the Kovalchuck’s work, cannabis would be used to decrease the level of ACE2 gene expression, essentially temporarily closing the doors to the virus. - Continued in Comments at @beardbros_pharms 🌲🌲🔥🔥💨💨 #Beardbros_Pharms #BeardBrosMedia #BBMedia #BeardBrosDistribution #CannabisNews #cannabiscommunity #cannabis #marijuana - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEW6ELBfoV/?igshid=61vidhbkz38i

Reposted from @beardbros_pharms Cannabis 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 root, said biological scientist Dr. Igor Kovalchuk. - “A number of them have reduced the number of these (virus) receptors by 73 per cent, the chance of it getting in is much lower,” said Kovalchuk. - “If they can reduce the number of receptors, there’s much less chance of getting infected.” - Employing cannabis sativa strains over the past three months, the researcher said the effective balance between cannabis components THC and CBD — the latter more typically associated with medical use — is still unclear in blocking the novel coronavirus. - Continued in Comments at @beardbros_pharms 🌲🌲🔥🔥💨💨 #Beardbros_Pharms #BeardBrosMedia #BBMedia #BeardBrosDistribution #CannabisNews #cannabiscommunity #cannabis #marijuana - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGQSIShjUS/?igshid=1187t7km191ay

Reposted from @beardbros_pharms (@get_regrann) - A congressional committee will debate two bills to federally legalize marijuana and several other pieces of cannabis research legislation this week, according to a briefing memo obtained by Marijuana Moment on Friday. - A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee is scheduled to hold a hearing on various reform proposals on Wednesday, with witnesses from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)  set to testify. - This comes months after the House Judiciary Committee held a historic vote approving a comprehensive legalization bill sponsored by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). That legislation—the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act—will be one of two descheduling bills the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will take up. - The memo starts by providing context on the state of cannabis policy in the U.S., outlining research restrictions imposed under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the legalization of industrial hemp, past petitions to reschedule cannabis and public health issues. - DEA Senior Policy Advisor Matthew Strait, FDA Deputy Director for Regulatory Programs Douglas Throckmorton and NIDA Director Nora Volkow are listed as witnesses for the hearing. - Here are the bills that the committee will consider this week: - Full article at @beardbros_pharms 🌲🌲🔥🔥💨💨 #Beardbros_Pharms #BeardBrosMedia #BBMedia #BeardBrosDistribution #CannabisNews #cannabiscommunity #cannabis #marijuana https://www.instagram.com/p/B7RwZmnhyjS/?igshid=1v9zzwdskngod

If you listen carefully, you will hear the sound of a crooked foundation known as marijuana prohibition starting to crumble in the United States. It has been more than eight decades since the federal government outlawed the cannabis plant nationwide, and yet, here we are finally standing on its lawn with torches in hand waiting for a day of reckoning. - Because no matter how much the suits on the Hill have schemed to enslave a population through backasswards drug laws, the nation has risen up in true knock-down-drag-out fashion and fought for its freedom back. Admittedly, this battle for legal bud took a lot longer than it should have, but considering that everyone in the trenches was stoned beyond belief, the marijuana movement seems to be arriving right on time. - Although pro-pot groups insist that 2019 has been the best year ever in the realm of cannabis reform, the reality is not much progress has transpired. It is only revered as the “best year” because even less occurred in the years that came before it. But no matter how you size it up, nothing plus bupkis still equals squat. In spite of everything, marijuana remains illegal across most of the United States. - At the state level, many advocates predicted that New York and New Jersey would be the next to legalize weed. Well, that didn’t happen. In fact, Illinois swooped in and legalized first, making both states look like dorks. But aside from that, no other significant pot laws were passed at the state level in 2019. We also learned that police are still out there arresting more than 600,000 pot offenders nationwide every year — mostly small timers, too. - Continued at @beardbros_pharms 🌲🌲🔥🔥💨💨 #Beardbros_Pharms #BeardBrosMedia #BBMedia #BeardBrosDistribution #CannabisNews #cannabiscommunity #cannabis #marijuana https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-9AaeBUQm/?igshid=1nc5lwrt6qz9o

#Repost @beardbros_pharms (@get_repost) ・・・ Still true... - No one deserves to be jailed for a non-toxic, non-lethal and healing plant... - I've been hearing politicians speaking recently that we need more research... that we need more information about cannabis before legalizing? - Well, How about these numbers? - - Tobacco 1,360 deaths per day. - Alcohol 245 deaths per day. - Prescriptions 200 deaths per day. - -Cannabis 0 deaths per day. No deaths ever. - 🌲🌲🔥🔥💨💨 #Beardbros_Pharms #BeardBrosMedia #BBMedia #BeardBrosDistribution #CannabisNews #losangeles #la #california #cannabiscommunity #cannabis #marijuana #real #life #weshouldsmoke (at Growers N' Smokers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5BbxACAgoz/?igshid=plrj3q6rr7j1

Reposted @beardbrospharms (@get_regrann) - There are so very few bright spots when it comes to #Prop64 and “legal weed” these days, but AB 1793 is a ray of positivity and we encourage anyone with a past cannabis conviction to stay engaged in the expungement process until they - and everyone else - are free from the rapidly fading stigma of #reefermadness. - Back in April of this year, many headlines were made and many backs were patted over the news that prosecutors in Los Angeles County were moving to clear the criminal records of as many as 50,000 people who had past cannabis-related crimes weighing them down in society. - This option of #expungement was touted as a benefit of Prop 64, the voter approved 2016 ballot initiative that created a regulated and taxed adult use cannabis market in the state of California. Since the new law of the land would have protected countless people pre-2016 from the stigma that goes along with even a low-level cannabis conviction, the idea is that expungement would provide the criminal justice reform to make right those past wrongs. - Officials in LA County expected a “tsunami” of expungement requests in the aftermath of November 2016, but the reality was that the process was not marketed effectively to the general public so many of those eligible still don’t know their rights. Additionally, those that did explore the option found the process to be confusing, lengthy, and virtually impossible to navigate without costly legal representation. - So, with much fanfare, LA County prosecutors heroically announced that they would systematically review all potentially eligible cases and automatically expunge the records that qualified. They didn’t mention how many years back they would be looking, but they boasted a goal of 50k expungements. - That is a respectable number, to be sure, but LA County is home to over 10 million residents. The entire state of Illinois, on the other hand, has over 12 million residents and they just announced the automatic expungement of nearly 800,000 past pot convictions. - Cont reading at beardbrospharms.com Link in bio. 🌲🌲🔥🔥💨💨 #Beardbros_Pharms #BeardBrosMedia #BBMedia #BeardBrosDistribution https://www.instagram.com/p/B33TvNRAgac/?igshid=1f630tvln59z1

Credit to from @hempinternational (@get_regrann) - Two new studies find that opioid-related deaths decline when states legalize access to marijuana. In fact, when adult-use cannabis laws are in place, the rate of opioid overdoses declines by at least 20 percent. - Both papers, published in the journal Economic Inquiry, not only show the impact of passing such laws, but also how dispensaries play a role in helping to quell these deaths. - The first study, helmed by researchers in Massachusetts and Colorado, claims to be the first to show the causal effects of access to recreational cannabis on #opioid mortality. - “We find that marijuana legalization causes a significant decline in opioid mortality— especially deaths from #synthetic opioids—with particularly pronounced benefits in states that have legalized recreational usage,” the study’s authors write. “Yet it is not legalization, per se, that produces these gains; rather, states that have legal access via dispensaries see the largest reductions in mortality.” - The study used three main sources of data: death rates involving all #opiates, prescription opioids and synthetic opioids from January 1999 through the end of 2017; the history of marijuana legalization in each state (including when legislation was passed and when dispensaries opened for business) and state-level demographic information. During the study period, 29 states had approved medical cannabis, while recreational marijuana was legalized in eight states plus the District of Columbia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of opioid-related deaths has increased six times over between 1999 and 2017. Additionally, 36 percent of the 47,600 opioid overdoes in 2017 involved prescription opioids. - Cont. In @beardbros_pharms Comments #BeardBrosMedia #Beardbros_Pharms #opiods #opioidcrisis #cannabis #cannabisscience #painmanagement #nervedamage #mmj #medicalcannabis #medicalmarijuana #PotStocks - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B0__SnBDoRI/?igshid=19r5fgt8mzorc

📸: @beardbros_pharms ・ Authorities in Northern California destroyed more than 42,000 marijuana plants as part of an investigation into illegal cannabis farms on public and private land suspected of hurting the environment. - The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that local, state and federal officials last week served 28 search warrants to marijuana farms without a permit along the Eel River in northern Mendocino County. - Officials suspect the farms polluted the water with trash, pesticides, generator fuel and damming watersheds. - No arrests were made, but the cases will be submitted to prosecutors at a later date. - The news comes on the heels of a new enforcement campaign, dubbed “Operation Clean Sweep,” announced by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. - The July 15-19 effort was a joint investigation by the sheriff’s office and state agencies such as the Department of Food and Agriculture, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Water Resource Board, Cal Fire and California Army National Guard. - Some industry blowback may be in the works, since rumblings of paramilitary raids have been making the rounds in the Emerald Triangle after sightings of Black Hawk helicopters and Army vehicles. - Some marijuana activists and industry insiders are discussing a possible protest in Sacramento to voice opposition to what they call “militarized enforcement.” - #BeardBrosMedia #Beardbros_Pharms #topshelf #topshelflife #hash #rosin #wedontsmokethesame #solventless #colorsofcannabis #highlife #frostynugs #dabdaily #dabs #420 #cannabis #cannabiscommunity #cannabisphotography #cannabisculture #cannabisphotographer #weedphotography #weedphotographer #growyourown #knowyourgrower #macro #420tv #nugmag #nugmagazine #caliweed (at Northern California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WyuNknrfi/?igshid=1qklcg3dxd0vx