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Marijuana, the antibiotic of the future?

Overuse of chemical antibiotics has led to relatively benign bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus becoming resistant to current antibiotics like aureusresistente Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which causes 10,000 deaths annually and is housed in open wounds “super-bugs”. The situation has worsened to the point that the US President Barack Obama issued an executive order to create a program to find new antibiotics to fight against super-resistant bacteria, for which a budget of 1.2 billion dollars was allocated.

However, an effective (and cheaper) solution may lie unexplored by modern science: cannabis.

Simon Gibbons is the head of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry Pharmaceutical College at University College London, and one of the most active promoters researching the use of cannabis as an antibiotic. “Everything indicates that these compounds have been evolved by plants as antimicrobial defenses that specifically target bacterial cells,” he said in an interview.

The exceptional activity of cannabis to remove these harmful organisms to humans is, according to the researcher, “a mystery. Really I can not venture an idea how it works, but its high potency as an antibiotic suggests that it must be a very specific mechanism. ” An international team 2008 worked with five strains of marijuana against six types of bacteria MRSA “, and found that all applied cannabinoids showed “strong activity” against a variety of bacteria.

They hope to find practical applications of four of the most common strains of marijuana to produce antibiotics and topical agents to treat ulcers and wounds in a hospital setting, reducing the use of chemical antibiotics (thereby reducing their ability to kill viruses).

The plant’s own resistance to the most adverse weather conditions coupled with ease of cultivation and its wide availability, will allow future use of this plant to fight cancer, prevent inflammation or act as an antioxidant, in addition to its sedative effects and even its use as a painkiller.

In fact there is nothing new in is use in multiple medical problems . One of the oldest Egyptian papyri (Ebers Papyrus, 1550 BC.) Refers to the cannabis to treat a wide variety of gynecological problems, as well as its antiseptic use. In South America it has been used in traditional medicine to treat everything from gonorrhoea to tuberculosis, in Southern Rhodesia it served as an effective remedy for dysentery, malaria and various tropical diseases. Inclusion in the “black list” of clinical data Pharmacopoeia 1945 (although at least in the US it had remained a legal substance from 1851) coinciding with the introduction of commercial forms of penicillin.
 
XxxAuto said:
Morning @Mossy maybe i was qualifying to a "
I saved an Auto from certain death..
Too ?
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Xxx..I've Reported your post.
The new badge is snipers...and he hasn't told me what qualifies for it..yet..:headbang:

HashMaster said:
The exceptional activity of cannabis to remove these harmful organisms to humans is, according to the researcher, “a mystery. Really I can not venture an idea how it works, but its high potency as an antibiotic suggests that it must be a very specific mechanism. ”
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Agh..I ran out of smokes mid post...:yoinks:

Antibiotics kill off the Bad bacteria..And the Good bacteria...
natural antibiotics like the olive leaf kill off the Bad bacteria Only..I have every reason to believe that cannabis leaf and bud would do the same..:smokeit:

BTW..we now have an Official AFN & PP's Test Team.
25 of the Best growers on both sites..:thumbsup:..a mix of members and staff.
They have a staffroom on New Vendors section..and they will let you know as much in advance as they can what Test are coming our way so if anyone wants to do a follow along they can.

The next two Trials will be Bomb Seeds and Platinum LED's.
Once they are on site we will be getting Vendor badge for them..for anyone who has already used them and has filled in a Review or smoke report..

MORE BADGES...:vibe:

Keep youor eyes on the Test Team Lounge for details..:thumbsup:..and if you have either a Bomb seed grow or Platinum grow and want your thread moved into the new areas..please ask a Mod..
 
@Mossy , she probably ended up around 65% - 70% Afghani dom.

It probably would have taken me 10 years if it hadn't been for the space and equipment I had available.

And it would have helped if I had understood the backcross squared / cubed concept just a little bit better at the time.... :doh:

I've got one I'm working on now that will never be anywhere near stabilized
(if there even is such a thing with hybrids. :eyebrows:)

But I've got a couple of phenos to hunt if I can get them to pop back up again...

Seems like I've been chasing my tail on those.

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Mossy said:
Xxx..I've Reported your post.
The new badge is snipers...and he hasn't told me what qualifies for it..yet..:headbang:



Agh..I ran out of smokes mid post...:yoinks:

Antibiotics kill off the Bad bacteria..And the Good bacteria...
natural antibiotics like the olive leaf kill off the Bad bacteria Only..I have every reason to believe that cannabis leaf and bud would do the same..:smokeit:

BTW..we now have an Official AFN & PP's Test Team.
25 of the Best growers on both sites..:thumbsup:..a mix of members and staff.
They have a staffroom on New Vendors section..and they will let you know as much in advance as they can what Test are coming our way so if anyone wants to do a follow along they can.

The next two Trials will be Bomb Seeds and Platinum LED's.
Once they are on site we will be getting Vendor badge for them..for anyone who has already used them and has filled in a Review or smoke report..

MORE BADGES...:vibe:

Keep youor eyes on the Test Team Lounge for details..:thumbsup:..and if you have either a Bomb seed grow or Platinum grow and want your thread moved into the new areas..please ask a Mod..
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And onions rendered down...... good meds.

Hmmm.... a Bomb badge ehh ?

Just so happens I'm about 3 weeks away from an early pre cure smoke report !

:kiss::kiss::kiss::kiss::kiss::kiss::kiss:
 
HashMaster said:
@Mossy , she probably ended up around 65% - 70% Afghani dom.
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Yeah..she Sounds it...:headbang:..that clear headed thinking and painkilling effect gives her away.
Everybody told me I would get the meds that I wanted from a Sati..but it wasn't..it was Affy.
Heavy Afghan with a hint of Kush is my ideal meds.
Sati actually increase my pain in most cases.

HashMaster said:
It probably would have taken me 10 years if it hadn't been for the space and equipment I had available.
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Ha ha..think about it..I have been playing with the same set of seeds I bought 10 years ago..Bargain..:headbang:

HashMaster said:
But I've got a couple of phenos to hunt if I can get them to pop back up again...

Seems like I've been chasing my tail on those.
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Tell me about it..:coffee:..time with genetics..everything that goes In comes back Out again..just a question of how long you have to Wait..:hurry:...but hey..you get a ever improving bud at every generation..so what is the Hurry.. :pass:
HashMaster said:
Hmmm.... a Bomb badge ehh ?

Just so happens I'm about 3 weeks away from an early pre cure smoke report !
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Sound about Perfect timescale..is it Cherry Bomb by any chance..sniper is bouncing up and down in Globals at the thought of cherry bomb..:frog:
 
HashMaster said:
@Mossy , just out of curiosity......

Ever have an Indica that smelled 100% of fresh ground roasted coffee beans ?
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OG Kush..:headbang:..and my Favourite pheno in the Dragons.
I always describe it as incense..Northern Grower and some of the others called it coffee and cream..if that is what you have..you are going to be so Happy...Blissful meds with deep refreshing sleep..:dragon8:..you cannot Beat her.
 
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