You can fight Bacteria with…Marijuana ingredients !

Yes it is true, Marijuana may be something of a wonder drug but maybe not in the ways you might think. Some researchers from  Italy and Britain ( on some wicked Bob Marley sounds ) have found that the main active ingredient in marijuana , the tetrahydrocannabinol or shortly THC, and related compounds may function as antibacterial agents, especially against microbial strains that are already resistant to several classes of drugs.

We knew ( well, some of us anyway) for decades that Cannabis sativa has antibacterial properties and experiments in the 1950s tested various marijuana preparations against skin and other infections, but now  Giovanni Appendino of the University of the Eastern Piedmont, looked at the antibacterial activity of the five most common cannabinoids. All of these compounds were found very effective against a few common multi-resistant bacterial strains. Researchers suggested that the nonpsychotropic cannabinoids might prove more promising for eventual use. They don’t know yet how the cannabinoids work, and if they would be effective as antibiotics then more research would have to be involved. But the compounds may prove useful sooner as a topical agent against MRSA ( is an infection caused by a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) bacteria that is highly resistant to antibiotics) to prevent the microbes from colonizing on the skin.