Should I take CBD oil for my anxiety? BBC Stories

Should I take CBD oil for my anxiety? BBC Stories



Natalie, who has bought a bottle of Cannabidiol (CBD) oil online, has a few questions she wants answering before she decides whether to take it. On this journey Natalie meets a hemp farmer, a scientist and tests the product at a laboratory.

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I'm not alert and I'd like to find out if CVD all is going to work for me [Music] anxiety sometime a month to feel a little by now so it's something I'd like to see the back off there's a cannabis extract that's now so popular that you can buy it in just about everything from oils and vape liquids to shampoo and makeup to drinks and even chocolate its classed as a supplement and is being sold in shops and online it's called CBD and at high doses a regulator type is being used in medical studies and it's getting some positive results it's everywhere but there's just so much conflict in advice as well and this song which to choose from two months ago I haven't taken any yet I'm not sure of but I'm not sure how they'll interact okay now some are I mean I've since been diagnosed with other things I've tried a number of prescription drugs mainly antidepressants nothing or pulling me through so you get to a point where you'll just try anything especially when it's been advertised as something more natural I've looked at a couple of sellers website I'll try five milligrams but also a percentage strength I'm just not really sure what all different colors mean I guess the fundamental questions that I want to know over the next couple of days is will it work for me will it work for others how will it work what dosage should I return should all those be taken hi I'm Nathalie thanks for showing us around hi [Music] so we go never look a crop that I planted ten days ago yeah that's good yeah I'm just curious to find out what you grow here and how it works from your side well we grow hemp and flax for fiber we've got a whole processing plant so we can sell clean fiber 4 goes into mattresses and loft insulation by the beginning of August hopefully this will be 10 feet tall travelers people are interested what's the difference between this and marijuana well hemp and marijuana of both cannabis plants yeah but you've got different varieties that produce different cannabinoids how illegal is this and when does it get to the point where it becomes illegal we are perfectly legal because we're licensed by the Home Office to produce hemp strong we're not allowed to harvest the leaf and flower so we have to leave the leaf and flower in the field what do you do with the leaf flower do just leave it there for rest ok so the bit we're throwing away is the part of the plant that the CBD has been extracted from it frustrates me somewhat that the OL CBD producing companies in the UK are allowed to bring leaf and flower in from abroad but we can't produce it if the leaves and flowers go to West well of are they CBD UK are y'all coming from all the UK produced products it's a the core information Europe Oh America ok didn't realize that I'm much of loss people don't most people do when people hear cannabis they usually think getting high and although CBD is cannabis it doesn't get you high and it's legal and that's because cannabis is actually the name of a group of plants and both marijuana and hemp belong to that family cannabis plants have around 100 different chemicals in them called cannabinoids and they can have various effects on us marijuana plants have been bred to have higher levels of a psychoactive chemical known as THC whereas hemp plants have high levels of the chemicals CBD which is not psychoactive and can sometimes have pain relieving and calming effects from researching the CBD oil I just assumed I it was all made in the UK well what I've read nowhere states differently I've been learning today that the local homegrown farmers kind of amused a bit that make the CBD just a little bit of doubt and confusion once again so it's a really exciting area I think especially in psychosis because we don't really have treatments there are as effective as we'd hope and they often come along with lots of very unpleasant side effects it seems that CBD is relatively safe and well tolerated so the study that I worked on looked at people who were at risk of developing psychosis and we gave them a six hundred milligram dose of CBD or a placebo for three weeks and we found that CBD was able to normalize the dysfunction that you see in certain brain areas have got involved in psychosis I haven't tried it but I've opened it and it stinks like I bought this one offline and it's two point five milligrams of CBD per drop that that's probably not going to be very effective if you're looking at 300 milligrams or 600 milligrams I think the risk here is that we just don't have the evidence of whether it works or not the research that we know about is looking at sort of quite high doses 600 to 2,000 milligrams and we know that this could have a clinical benefit but there's the things that you can get on the high street often they have much lower levels and we just don't know basically whether they work or not I know lots of people report that this is helpful however it's difficult to know how much of that is sort of because of the drug or because of a placebo effect and often a placebo effect isn't a bad thing what would you recommend what was your advice before purchasing a product online I think it's important to speak to your doctor if you're considering it because the other thing that we don't know about CBD is the effects that it might have when you're taking another medication for example our bodies are full of receptors that react to cannabis these receptors are part of an internal system which helps control our bodily functions such as our appetite pain relief and coping with stress and anxiety it's called the endocannabinoid system or ECS and it got its name because it was people's use of cannabis that helped lead to its discovery we naturally produce these chemicals all the time and the chemicals THC and CBD from cannabis plants also affect our ECS and can have various effects on our bodies and that's why scientists are now researching potential treatments using them it looks fairly positive I might help man it might be a good impact something but I am still there looking to see what is inside a lot of thought and how much CBD is in it my vaults been open and passed around a little bit so I bought a new bottle do the testing on to make sure that it wasn't contaminated in any other way [Applause] [Music] and can this machine tell us what other chemicals and that being the CBD while CBD and THC are the main ones it also looks for other THC precursors within your product well CBD oil is legal that does depend on how much THC it varies depending on your product and no matter if you had a one meal bottle or a one liter bottle you could don't you would only be allowed one milligram of THC right now in the UK there isn't regulation or manufacturing standards specifically made for CBD supplement products but there is a law that means that the amount of THC that's a psychoactive chemical that gets you high must be less than one milligram per item and it doesn't matter how big the bottle or product is it can still only have one milligram of THC in the whole thing there's strict regulation around the type of CBD that's being used in medical studies that you can't buy online or in shops and there will probably be more official guidance and even laws around low-dose products like CBD oil very soon so of all CBD products in the UK tested and regulated in the same way that we're doing now so in theory yes for every product released in the UK they would need to comply to labeling standards they have the correct amount of CBD that they're advertising within their product if you've ever want to check a supplier should be able to provide you with a certificate that says we've had it tested for this match this is what's in it we ran a series of tests on the product and identified that the THC content within the product was just over four times the legal limit so the legal limit is one milligram per container and we identified just over four milligrams in this in this product four milligrams of THC isn't gonna do anything notable to a person you'd have to have a considerable amount of THC in there for there to be a psychoactive response we found that the CBD content was was pretty much spot-on to what they'd claimed on the product when you extract CBD from the hemp plant you end up with THC as a by-product so it could be the extraction process wasn't cetera as it should have been at separating the cannabinoids properly it could also be a pure misunderstanding of the law the problem is and if you know how to interpret it it's just a page with a load of numbers on it so I think the there needs to be a simpler way of explaining this to to the consumer that doesn't rely on complicated reports on this I would say to Natalie don't worry you know that the THC content in there is very very low don't fear CBD products as a result of this experience and as the industry grows and becomes more mature brands will be explaining better to consumers about their products and making sure that those products comply with all regulations [Music] [Music] [Music] all I have learnt so far I don't think I meditate CBD oil just until a few more studies and tests of being completed I've never seen no attacking it especially because it's becoming more prominent in the media and in the research labs but I definitely keep an open mind about taking it [Music]

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