Cannabidiol

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· RTI Press
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22
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Recent loosening of legal restrictions on cannabis and its chemical constituents, including phytocannabinoids such as Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), has led to rapid proliferation and wide availability of products containing CBD. Although using pure CBD does not result in THC-like intoxication, it is not risk-free. In this review, we examine CBD from scientific, marketing, and regulatory perspectives. Specifically, we evaluate the evidence used to support statements concerning CBD’s real and putative medical effects and discuss misleading information that has been used in marketing approaches. Also, we explore the current legal landscape surrounding CBD. We conclude that further research is necessary to clarify legitimate therapeutic effects of CBD. Federal regulation is also necessary to assure quality, safety, and efficacy of CBD products. Until new regulations are enacted to ensure purity and label accuracy, consumers should balance any perceived benefits of CBD use against potential risks associated with using products of unknown quality.

About the author

Research Public Health Analyst

Education

JD, DePaul University College of Law

MA, Anthropology, The College of William and Mary

BA, Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College



Camille Kempf Gourdet has nearly a decade of experience in evaluating tobacco and child obesity-related policies at the state level, to help measure their impact on public health outcomes.

Ms. Gourdet has done extensive primary legal and policy research, synthesis, and data abstraction of relevant and existing state-level policies that pertain to tobacco control, medicinal and recreational marijuana, and tobacco control.  

Ms. Gourdet is interested in how targeted anti-tobacco messaging and the regulation of tobacco retailer licensing, sale, and distribution can effectively reduce or prevent tobacco initiation and habitual use. She studies the role of state and local governments in regulating how such tobacco products as e-cigarettes and flavored cigars can be sold, distributed, and marketed. More recently, she has focused on how states have acted as laboratories to experiment with how marijuana can be administered, sold, or distributed for medicinal and recreational purposes in order to promote justice and protect children, adult consumers, medicinal marijuana patients, and the public at large. She has presented her primary legal research pertaining to how marijuana-infused edible products are regulated at national conferences and in peer-reviewed publications.

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