America Addresses Two Epidemics: Cannabis and Coronavirus and their Interactions: An Ecological Geospatial Study

Albert S Reece; Gary K Hulse

Cannabinoids are known to interact with the immune system at multiple points including CB1 and CB2 receptors, six vanilloid channels, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR's), serotonin, adenosine, histamine, glycine, sphingosine, dopamine and opioid receptors, three class A orphan G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR's), toll-like receptors, Tcells, B-cells, macrophages and regulatory cells, effects on sodium channels and several types of potassium and calcium channels, modulation of GABA signalling and inhibition of cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase enzymes, bind directly to mitochondria and cannabinoid receptors also form heterodimers with opioid, adenosine, dopamine, GABA and other GPCR's and have myriad and major epigenetic effects 13-20,33-38 .