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Study: Patients Find More Relief In Marijuana's Psychoactive Compound THC Than In CBD
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Forbes
Posted: March 11th, 2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2019/02/27/study-pa...
CBD, the non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis, hemp and hops, has been getting a lot of attention from the media recently. On the other hand, THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis that makes people feel high or stoned, is often overlooked (and sometimes even looked down on) when discussing marijuanas medical potential. However, a new study ... published on the Scientific Reports journal on Tuesday, revealed that THC exhibited the strongest correlation with therapeutic relief, compared to the more socially acceptable chemical found in cannabis, CBD (cannabinol). Cannabinoid content, and especially THC content, came out as the main factor for optimizing symptom relief, when tested for a wide variety of health conditions. [Study co-author Jacob Miguel] Vigil explained the results derived from the observation of real-time data from Releaf App, which he qualified as the largest database of its kind in our country. Using the app, patients reported the results and effects of their actual cannabis use. The researchers discovered cannabis is more effective for the treatment of mental symptoms like agitation, irritability, anxiety, depression, excessive appetite, insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea, gastrointestinal pain, stress and tremors, than it is in the treatment of physical ailments. Despite the conventional wisdom ... that only CBD has medical benefits while THC merely makes one high, our results suggest that THC may be more important than CBD in generating therapeutic benefits.
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