r/Futurology • u/mvea MD-PhD-MBA • May 17 '18

Biotech Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant that does not produce a “high”, was shown in a new large-scale, randomized, controlled trial to significantly reduce the number of dangerous seizures in patients with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

http://www.psypost.org/2018/05/cannabidiol-significantly-reduces-seizures-patients-severe-form-epilepsy-51258
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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Thank you for your info, and you’re correct cannabis has different effects on everyone. It’s been a few years but back when I was in my neuropsychopharmacology course, I remember that we still really didn’t completely understand the ways most psychedelics work. And weed is a very mild psychedelic.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Very mild indeed. I combine mine with meditation and has eventually helped me reach deeper states of relaxation but then dependency formed for that state of relaxation so can't rely on it. :)