used to effectively treat symptoms associated
with HIV, such as chronic pain and weight
loss, but a new research suggests the plant
may be able to stop the spread of the disease
itself.
These findings are being confirmed by the Louisiana
State University study recently published in the
journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
Within the period of seventeen months scientists
were administering a daily dose of THC, an active
ingredient in cannabis, to monkeys infected with an
animal form of the virus.
As a result, damage to immune tissue in the
primates’ stomachs, one of the most common areas in
the body for HIV infection to spread, decreased.
Dr. Patricia Molina, the study’s lead author wrote
that the mentioned findings reveal completely new
mechanisms, which may potentially contribute to
cannabinoid-mediated disease modulation.
It has been explained in the report that while HIV
spreads by infecting and killing off immune cells, the
monkeys that received the daily THC treatments
maintained higher levels of healthy cells.
Similar research spearheaded by Molina in 2011
found that infected monkeys treated with THC had a
better chance of surviving. And a report published in
2012 pointed to evidence that marijuana-like
compounds can fight HIV in late-stage AIDS
patients.
Last year, an oncologist from the United Kingdom
found that marijuana compounds can kill cancer cells
in leukemia patients, and scientists at California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have
conducted research that suggests those compounds
can also effectively combat other forms of aggressive
cancer
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