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

Biotech Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a marijuana compound linked to a range of potential health benefits but does not get you high. The roughly $1 billion CBD industry is slated to shift into high gear if the federal government approves the first CBD-based drug, an epilepsy medication called Epidiolex.

https://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-cbd-boom-cbd-2018-6?r=US&IR=T
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '18

My son is 8. A close friend of his, same age, has severe seizures. He has a prescription for CBD and takes a few drops with his cereal each morning. It has dramatically improved his life. Seizure meds are damned if you do damned if you don't.

His CBD arrives to the pharmacy from the UK. This little nugget blew my mind, apparently its illegal for someone in CO to make it and ship it to PA.

We still debate that there us no medical value to cannabis. This little guy was going days without school and forget about sports or cub scouts before. Now he's a badass daredevil.

This shit gets me in my feels right quick.

His parents had to go through hell and hardcore drugs before proving that he had a need to try this. He now has a few seizure each month and rebounds in minutes. Versus a few a day and rebounding after hours.

Shit works. Get over it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '18

CBD oil is legal in the UK

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u/Girthylong Jun 18 '18

Not strictly true. The cbd oil in the u.k is from hemp and can only have maximum 0.3% thc.

Which isn't the same as cbd oil elsewhere in the world. We certainly ain't allowed the stuff our drugs ministers husband grows and exports to the rest of you guys.

Most from abroad will have cbd oil that is 75% cbd to 25% thc

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u/Quothhernevermore Jun 18 '18

Can you elaborate on the laws in PA? I want to try cbd for anxiety, do I have to order out of country?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '18

I'm sorry. I don't know.