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Being a lawful medical marijuana patient can get you booted from organ transplant lists across the country. Yet the main active compound in marijuana appears to assist with much-needed immunosuppression after an organ transplant.
In the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology in July 2013, lead author and Temple University School of Medicine Researcher Rebecca Hartzell Robinson writes that THC, the stuff on weed that causes euphoria, also helps with immunosuppression during organ transplants.
In the abstract for the paper, “Cannabinoids Inhibit T-cells via Cannabinoid Receptor 2 in an In Vitro Assay for Graft Rejection, the Mixed Lymphocyte Reaction” the authors write THC and other pot compounds – “cannabinoids” – “are known to have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties.”
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