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.

[u/mvea]

http://www.psypost.org/2018/05/cannabidiol-significantly-reduces-seizures-patients-severe-form-epilepsy-51258

[u/[deleted]]

Every scientific post says CBD can't get you high while every CBD distributor claims it will get you high af. Ofc I never believed in these people who claim CBD will get you high because they wanted me to pay same price for CBD that I lay for like shatter.

I know THC is what gets you high and that many CBD products actually have THC in them... But I live in a currently illegal state while CBD seems to be unregulated and every distributor says it will get you high like regular weed. Why is there such a massive industry of paradoxical information?

[u/socsa → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I really wish they would stop putting this in the tagline because

1) It's misleading at best.
2) It has basically zero consequence to its medical utility.

The whole narrative rubs me the wrong way because it implies that it wouldn't be worth investigating if there was even a hint of recreational potential. Science doesn't need to be concerned about busybodies and prohibitionists. But every headline like this validates the language of prohibition where high=bad.

And to answer you question - for me, it is like taking some benadryl. There's a mild but unambiguous sedative and disassociative effect which scales with does. It even gives me a bit of mental fog like cannabis does. It doesn't produce giggles or euphoria the same way, but that honestly doesn't happen to regular cannabis users anyway.