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Brazilian Moms Fought to Get Free Medical Cannabis for Kids

It's made a huge difference for children with epilepsy and other medical conditions

(Newser) - The 4-year-old boy struggled to balance while walking through the living room. His mother's eyes attentively followed his every move. Then a seizure knocked him to the ground, the dull thud of his small body echoing through the home. On this July morning in Guaruja, a coastal city in...

America Is Fond of CBD, but We Don't Know Much About It

'We don't have a lot of good data on what effects any of these things have, either harmful or beneficial'

(Newser) - CBD use increased 50% in the past four years, according to a new survey published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association . About 1 in 5 survey respondents said they used CBD in the past year, reports the AP . People who use cannabis are more likely to report...

Hong Kong Has a New 'Dangerous Drug': CBD

The possession, use, and sale of it is now criminalized

(Newser) - Elsewhere in the world, a loosening of drug laws—and a big tightening. The latter refers to Hong Kong, which as of Wednesday now criminalizes the possession, consumption, and selling of the "dangerous drug" cannabidiol, or CBD. As CBS News notes, that means CBD has the same classification as...

Users Want Their Cannabis in Edibles, Survey Finds

Most say they'd share them with grandparents

(Newser) - Most users prefer to get their cannabis from a gummy than by smoking, and 60% of them would be fine with passing the bowl to their grandparents, a survey has found. The online survey measured sometimes-changing attitudes toward cannabis from users and nonusers, Forbes reports. As for preferences, there could...

Grieving Elephant Will Be Given CBD Oil

As the Warsaw Zoo seeks to learn whether it can lessen anxiety in animals

(Newser) - It turns out 2020 hasn't just been hard for humans. The BBC reports on the case of an elephant in Poland who will be given CBD oil by zookeepers who are hoping to learn whether the oil could lessen anxiety in animals. They say that anxiety set in for...

Canadian Caught With CBD Oil Faces Lifetime Ban From US

She tried to bring medicinal oil from Canada to a state with legal marijuana

(Newser) - A young Canadian woman thought that since marijuana is legal throughout Canada and in Washington state, it would be OK to bring the non-psychoactive CBD oil she uses for medical purposes from one to the other. She was very wrong. The woman, who uses the cannabis-derived product to treat the...

One Ice-Cream Maker Wants to Relax You in a Big Way

Ben & Jerry's wants to sell CBD-infused ice cream

(Newser) - Want to ingest sugar while feeling very relaxed? Ben & Jerry's has you covered, if the FDA approves. The famous Vermont ice-cream maker said Thursday it wants to sell ice cream infused with a hemp-derived compound called CBD, CBS News reports. "You probably know that we're fans...

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