Marijuana is a potent antibiotic that can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and disrupt the progression of prion diseases such as Mad Cow disease and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease — just don’t expect the federal government to tell you any of this.
The factoids come from TheAnswerPage.com – a medical information resource for doctors sponsored by The Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine.