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You can't grow the vaccine in your garden though. Jokes aside, there's a long way to go before this line of research leads to a product anywhere near as effect

You can't grow the vaccine in your garden though. Jokes aside, there's a long way to go before this line of research leads to a product anywhere near as effective as vaccination. Quoting from the OP: - "CBD is quite hydrophobic and forms large micellar structures that are trapped and broken down in the liver, thereby limiting the amount of drug available to other tissues after oral administration." - "other means of CBD administration such as vaping and smoking raise concerns about potential lung damage" - "The purity of CBD and, in particular, the composition of the materials labelled as CBD are also important, especially in light of our findings suggesting that other cannabinoids such as THC might act to counter CBD antiviral efficacy" - "The necessary human in vivo concentration and optimal route and formulation remain to be defined"

gruez 5y ago
> You can't grow the vaccine in your garden though. A sibling comment mentions that it's non-trivial to produce by someone with just a garden. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122533
- grawprog 5y ago
  Yeah making CBD isolate in one's backyard is pretty unfeasible. It requires a distillation column on top of the vaccuum chamber, oven and solvent recirculation equipment required for typical cannabis extracts made in large quantities. The process essentially involves blasting the material with solvents, evaporating the material inside a pressure controlled vacuum chamber oven then, collecting the various components in a distillation column as they're evaporated away at different temperatures. It's a dangerous process that requires high quality equipment and a proper environment to do safely and produce a product you'd actually want to use. Not the, 'average person can make Willy nilly in their kitchen after growing a few plants' kinda thing. It's more of a requires a trained team of technicians and a certified lab kinda thing.

gruez 5y ago

> You can't grow the vaccine in your garden though. A sibling comment mentions that it's non-trivial to produce by someone with just a garden. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122533

grawprog 5y ago
Yeah making CBD isolate in one's backyard is pretty unfeasible. It requires a distillation column on top of the vaccuum chamber, oven and solvent recirculation equipment required for typical cannabis extracts made in large quantities. The process essentially involves blasting the material with solvents, evaporating the material inside a pressure controlled vacuum chamber oven then, collecting the various components in a distillation column as they're evaporated away at different temperatures. It's a dangerous process that requires high quality equipment and a proper environment to do safely and produce a product you'd actually want to use. Not the, 'average person can make Willy nilly in their kitchen after growing a few plants' kinda thing. It's more of a requires a trained team of technicians and a certified lab kinda thing.