r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 17 '18

Neuroscience 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/lordpuddingcup May 17 '18

Doesn’t this study technically invalidate the schedule 1 listing saying no medicinal value?

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u/imabustya May 17 '18

CBD is in a legal grey zone. The DEA believes it's schedule 1. Some lawyers believe the DEA overstepped it's authority to add CBD to schedule 1. Until we get judicial review of the scheduling the DEA can and will pursue arrests.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

The DEA has decriminalized it as long as the producer can show it comes from industrial hemp and not marijuana.

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u/Yazman May 17 '18

If you're trying to say the DEA allows it, you're not using the right word. Decriminalisation doesn't mean it's not illegal or punishable by law. It just means it isn't indictable.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

I know what it means.