Along with bold and unsubstantiated promises of health and wellness, most marketing materials for products containing CBD claim that CBD, a compound found in cannabis that alters mental processes and behaviors, is non-psychoactive.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not true<\/a>. If CBD does in fact reduce anxiety, or fight depression, those are by definition psychoactive effects. But one effect CBD products are absolutely\u00a0not<\/em> supposed to have is a \u201cheart-pounding\u201d hallucinogenic experience, like the one a Virginia Commonwealth University graduate student suffered last year.<\/p>\n As The New York Times recently reported<\/a>, the unidentified student contacted the school\u2019s forensic toxicologists after vaping some liquids made by a company called\u00a0Diamond CBD<\/a>\u00a0and having a very bad time. His experience\u00a0mirrored that of more than 100 U.S. service members<\/a>, some of whom were hospitalized with hallucinations after vaping products said to be CBD oil \u2014 experiences that track more closely with ingesting spice<\/a>\u00a0than CBD, which studies have found to be mostly benign even at high doses.<\/p>\n When VCU toxicologist Michelle Peace tested Diamond CBD products, in four of nine samples examined, she found a compound called 5F-ADB \u2014 which is a synthetic cannabinoid that has no therapeutic potential,\u00a0according to the World Health Organization<\/a>, but can trigger acute psychosis and, in extreme cases, convulsions and death.<\/p>\n Fake cannabinoids, keep in mind, are subject to a blanket ban by regulators in the United States and have been linked to numerous very bad health outcomes, including the notorious \u201czombie\u201d incident in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n But since \u201csynthetic marijuana\u201d is a blanket term referring to one of any number of chemical compounds whose effects attempt to \u201cmimic\u201d THC, they are very hard to suss out. And also, apparently, easy to mix into \u201cCBD\u201d products in order to\u2026 well, produce a high? Produce negative headlines? Trick the user?<\/p>\n Among its products marketed to humans, which the very troubled in human consumed, Diamond CBD also sells products marketed to pets.<\/p>\n In a statement to the Times, Diamond CBD\u2019s parent company,\u00a0a holdings company called PotNetwork Holdings<\/a>\u00a0that also markets CBD products under comedic legend Tommy Chong\u2019s brand Chong\u2019s Choice, rejected the findings and said their own tests did not find \u201cany unnatural or improper derivative,\u201d and said it would test more products and issue a recall if necessary.<\/p>\n But the experience of the soldiers last year \u2014 who also claimed to have vaped CBD oil before turning up in emergency rooms with symptoms consistent with exposure to synthetic cannabinoids \u2014 suggests that the one man\u2019s issue with Diamond CBD products may not be an isolated incident.<\/p>\n The Times\u2019s analysis of the incident was a critique of the CBD market\u2019s lack of regulation. This is a real thing and it is problematic. Swearing that your CBD product can work all kinds of wonders, as many CBD product marketers have done, is neither honest nor legal. But adulterating CBD oil with synthetic cannabinoids, as VCU\u2019s Peace alleges that Diamond CBD may have done, is a huge leap beyond hucksterism and lands instead in the realm of reckless or malicious disregard.<\/p>\n What to do? That\u2019s an excellent question. The speed at which CBD products\u2019 popularity and availability have outpaced any kind of CBD knowledge and awareness \u2014 let alone product regulation, safety, and testing \u2014 has been stunning. The vape oil is out of the bottle and in your lungs and brain; what\u2019s in it? You just can\u2019t be certain, and until you can, there is apparently a risk of being very dangerously fooled by unscrupulous CBD companies. Will it happen to you? It could, and that\u2019s bad enough.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, are you concerned about the safety of CBD products?<\/p>\n The post Dangerous Synthetic Cannabinoids Found in Liquid Claiming to be CBD<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Along with bold and unsubstantiated promises of health and wellness, most marketing materials for products containing CBD claim that CBD, a compound found in cannabis that alters mental processes and behaviors, is non-psychoactive. That\u2019s not true. If CBD does in fact reduce anxiety, or fight depression, those are by definitionContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,136,767,5835,53,11755,11756,1173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37598,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37597\/revisions\/37598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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