Smoking weed won’t protect you against COVID-19, reports say

Smoking marijuana won’t stop COVID-19. As Forbes reports, some social media users misread the study and assumed weed will kill COVID-19 or even end the pandemic, but the researchers never made this claim. Richard van Breemen, the lead researcher of the study, told Vice the researchers wanted to explore what natural products could fight against COVID-19. “Our interest has always been in discovering natural products that have medicinal value,” Breemen told Vice. “That’s the exact same point at which antibodies attack the virus.”Interviewer Audrey Carleton asked for clarification on smoking marijuana and its connection to fighting COVID-19.