CBD is safe to use for pain, says Dr. Daniel Clauw, a rheumatologist who helped develop the Arthritis Foundation's CBD guidelines. (hereandnow)
Doctors are noticing patients who suffer from arthritis are asking by name for CBD, a cannabis extract, to help manage pain.
“It appears as though CBD is fairly safe, and it might be effective in certain types of pain,” he says. “The biggest concern about CBD is knowing your source of CBD and making sure that you're not in some way consuming CBD that is in some way contaminated, either with THC or with any number of other chemicals depending on how it's been manufactured and processed.
“These products can be very dangerous, especially if they're in some way sort of adulterated or contaminated. We still need to know more about just pure THC and pure CBD,” he says. “But when you start then having products that are contaminated with all sorts of different things, it's sort of the Wild West out there, unfortunately.”What is the difference between CBD and THC?
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