Such times are ours that the cannabis industry\u2019s bete noir at the federal government is not the cops at the Drug Enforcement Administration, but the scientists, researchers and policy wonks at the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n
The FDA is tasked with ensuring the marketed, for-profit products Americans eat, drink, and put into their bodies are safe. Lately, they haven\u2019t been doing this \u2014 not with JUUL devices and other e-cigarettes supposedly hooking a \u201cnew generation\u201d of teens on nicotine \u2014 and not with products containing CBD, or\u00a0cannabidiol<\/a>.<\/p>\n The FDA has been on notice to regulate products containing CBD at least since CBD of dubious provenance started turning up in cosmetics, coffee, pet treats and patent-medicine-like heal-all potions.\u00a0While the FDA has done a decent job of policing<\/a>\u00a0at least some of the least-honest companies using false, baseless, or misleading medical claims to push their CBD products on a credulous public,\u00a0on Monday the FDA also issued an updated consumer warning<\/a>, in which the FDA said that CBD\u00a0could<\/em>\u00a0be very, very bad.<\/p>\n\n FDA is quickly working to further clarify our regulatory approach for products containing cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds like CBD. We\u2019re doing this in line with our overarching approach like for any other substance FDA regulates. https:\/\/t.co\/dlxQ8Fmk0t<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Dr. Amy Abernethy (@DrAbernethyFDA) November 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Users of CBD products run \u201creal risks,\u201d Dr. Amy Abernethy, a physician and the FDA\u2019s principal deputy commissioner, said in a statement. These risks include \u201cpotential liver injury, interactions with other drugs, drowsiness, diarrhea, and changes in mood\u201d as well as \u2014 deep breath! \u2014 \u00a0impaired sexual behavior in males. CBD products may also carry risks for \u201cvulnerable populations\u201d like children and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.<\/p>\n On Monday the #FDA<\/a> said \u201csome of the available data raise serious concerns about potential harm from #CBD<\/a>,\u201d including liver injury, drowsiness, diarrhea and changes in mood, and raised questions about its impact on children and pregnant or breastfeeding women.\u201d via @KristineOwram<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/PmXS0XNX9Z<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Grace Maral Burnett (@BurnettGraceM) November 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Since\u00a0CBD<\/a>\u00a0is addictive for both a public eager to find the next new cure-all as well as the news media, many mainstream outlets including Good Morning America repeated the FDA\u2019s new claims verbatim. Which is too bad, because what the FDA did was misleading at very best.<\/p>\n\n New CBD concern; FDA worried people mistakenly believe it won\u2019t hurt them. @DrJAshton<\/a> has the latest. pic.twitter.com\/WLJKcLUgBc<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) November 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The FDA is absolutely right to say that CBD products\u2019 efficacy require more research, testing, and verification. CBD might do a bunch of things, research indicates; the threshold for guaranteeing that it does these things has not yet been met. The FDA is also very right on when it says that various products might not have the amount of CBD advertised and might also be contaminated with pesticides, heavy metals, or other adulterants. If it had stopped at \u201cbuyer beware; this stuff might be bunk\u201d all would be well, but the FDA appears to have overstated its case and overstepped its bounds when claiming that CBD products have the ability to cause harm.<\/p>\n Probably the worst misleading claim is the FDA\u2019s supposition that CBD can cause liver injury. The basis for this claim was the FDA\u2019s review of\u00a0Epidiolex<\/a>, the CBD-based pharmaceutical drug used to treat a rare and heretofore incurable form of childhood epilepsy. Too much Epidiolex, or Epidiolex taken at the same time as other drugs, caused harm to the liver detected through blood tests, the FDA found. The thing is that Epidiolex is a\u00a0concentrated CBD solution<\/a>. It bears as much resemblance to CBD products on the market as a bumper car does to a Ferrari.<\/p>\n To ingest as much CBD as one could do on an Epidiolex binge with over-the-counter products might require drinking several bottles of oil or eating an entire package of gummies. \u201cDon\u2019t eat so much CBD that it will sicken you\u201d is a much different message than \u201cCBD could f*ck you up!\u201d but that\u2019s what we got from the FDA.<\/p>\n \u201cThe FDA is desperately, and disingenuously, seeking harm,\u201d said Martin A. Lee, a researcher and founder of\u00a0Project CBD<\/a>, which has been spreading awareness of the cannabinoid for more than a decade.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is not a single published peer reviewed study that shows that CBD \u2014 at any dose \u2014 is harmful to humans who are not taking another drug,\u201d he told Cannabis Now. \u201cHarm appears only in cases when a person is taking high amounts of a potent anti-epileptic drug that has a toxic profile of its own.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that CBD is perfectly safe, it just means that the FDA\u2019s latest anti-CBD PR binge is not based on science,\u201d he added. \u201cThe greatest harm that CBD can cause is anorexia of the wallet, as one would needlessly spend a lot of money purchasing and consuming the large amounts of CBD that the FDA falsely claims is harmful.\u201d<\/p>\n The FDA ought to have known that any such warnings on cannabis-related products needed significant detail and qualification in order to be properly understood. The FDA is also stuck in the same circular-logic vortex with regards to doing its job and regulating: there isn\u2019t enough science, and so there isn\u2019t enough information to say what\u2019s safe. Yet somehow there\u2019s enough to say what might be unsafe? But there is a hidden bonus in this steaming pile, as many observed: at the least, the FDA admitted that CBD does\u00a0something<\/em>.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, have you tried CBD?<\/p>\n The post FDA Says CBD Products Run \u2018Real Risks\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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