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CBD Has Beneficial Effects on Your Brain. Deal With It.
Researchers are paying attention to cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabis component with multiple health benefits.
Yesterday, I did a simple search with the keywords “cannabidiol” and “CBD” on Pubmed. The search engine found 2,345 results. In other words, two thousand three hundred and five publications focused on CBD. If you look up “cannabis,” the results topped at 25,470 publications.
It all started in 1972 with the first publication on CBD. Drs Jones and Pertwee described the effect of CBD pretreatment on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) uptake by the brain. The topic was quite new and did not bring much attention.
Until recently, scientists published an average of five studies each year. But it was in 2003 that this number doubled, and it has kept increasing since then. In the past few years, the interest in CBD spiked, reflecting the enthusiasm of the scientific and medical community.
