For many years, studies have discovered that THC in marijuana could help treat pain, loss of appetite, nausea, and alleviate other symptoms of illness but with costly side effects. New results emerged that CBD is useful in some way and could treat without getting the patient in a high condition.
It was found out that this strain which marijuana has consisted of high levels of cannabidiol or CBD. The substance is one of the two primary molecules. THC is tetrahydrocannabinol and alerts the mind while CBD doesn't. Numerous studies suggest that cannabidiol can treat epilepsy and other range of sickness which include cancer, schizophrenia, anxiety, and heart disease.
"This is a really powerful compound," says Mikhail Kogan, the medical director of the George Washington University Center for Integrative Medicine. "I've seen it work for a lot of my patients." He prescribes high-CBD strains of cannabis regularly for such illnesses as epilepsy, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, autoimmune disorders, autism and insomnia, The Washington Post reported.
In California, traffic deaths have been cut dramatically by 16 percent after medical marijuana has been authorized but increased eventually. This pattern has been recorded in Mexico as well where death rate went down but went up as well in a matter of time.
According to AOL News, research emphasized on the differences in several states' medical marijuana laws and point out the need for study in the characteristics of how regions carry them out, said study's lead author and a doctoral student at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, Julian Santaella-Tenorio.
He also warned that alcohol and marijuana are drugs that can worsen driving. It is not understandable why traffic deaths would decline if marijuana becomes legal. The research can only exhibit a link and cannot prove its cause and effect.
What makes cannabidiol special is it doesn't make the user high. Most users of recreational marijuana want this effect but patients instead avoid it. This enabled CBD to elude many of the political, legal, especially medical issues that have inhibited the spread of medical marijuana.