CBD and other cannabinoids are really hot right now and according to Google health trends, mentions and prominence of CBD are up 2500% in the past 5 years. It’s gone from an unknown entity, kind of a fringe sort of thing, to one of the hottest ingredients on Earth when it comes to human health. Many of us know someone who has taken it and seen great results. Cannabis cells are estimated to be 30.6 billion dollars in 2021 and to increase by 41% to 62.1 billion by 2026 with a compound annual growth rate of 15%. CBD is likely not going away and I will talk about the legal status, the basics of what CBD is, what some of the properties are, what its mechanism of action is, health benefits, legal status, safety, and some key takeaways.

The cannabis sativa plant 1:42
Cannabinoids 3:16
Health benefits 7:27
THC 12:56
Legal status 15:34
Some issues 23:22

“So there was a clinical study published in Lancet Neurology in 2015 on 214 patients and they showed a significant drop in seizures in 36% of these patients who had treatment resistant epilepsy. Sam was one of those from Berkeley, California and he was the first patient to try Epidiolex. Before, and on all sorts of anti-epileptic drugs, he was having 100 seizures a day. After one day on Epidiolex, Sam’s seizures were down to 30. 2 days, he was down to 10 seizures a day, and on day 3 he had one seizure and there were no side effects for Sam. ” 9:39