Researchers, and physicians have been trying to uncover additional treatment methods for TBIs, and it turns out that cannabis, CBD, and hemp-derived products may be a few beneficial adjunct treatments.
The CBD market could grow to as high as $22 billion by 2022. How the FDA decides to regulate the substance will play a significant role in how high that figure grows.
As CBD explodes across the country, cops have struggled to keep up in their ability to accurately test whether a CBD product is derived from hemp or marijuana, as well as how much THC that product contains.
A recent study suggested that CBD curbed cravings in people with opioid dependence. It's one of the first double-blind controlled trials, the gold standard for drug research, to show benefit of using CBD outside epilepsy treatment.
Both THC and CBD are neuroprotective antioxidants, which is a fancy way of saying they help reduce the effects brain damage whether due to trauma or things like strokes or other disease.