Epilogue: The Future Bonds of CBD
At a local CBD store in Houston, Texas, a young man in his twenties offers a greeting from behind the counter, “You know I just started here,” he grudgingly admits, “I have only studied this stuff for a week or so.” His background was in retail, and he lo
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Epilogue: The Future Bonds of CBD
People have been using cannabis forever. The question now is, how do we as scientists catch up? —Staci Gruber, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School [1]. The brain is about a symphony, and CBD can bring the entire symphony into harmony. —Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., Director of the Addiction Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital [2].
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“Trusted” Chemists: The CBD Dispensary
At a local CBD store in Houston, Texas, a young man in his twenties offers a greeting from behind the counter, “You know I just started here,” he grudgingly admits, “I have only studied this stuff for a week or so.” His background was in retail, and he looked the part as if he had just stepped out of a Banana Republic advertisement. He seemed confident that he could speak with a measure of authority, as he rattled off statistics, pointed out products, and made the experience of information gathering an enjoyable experience (Fig. 4.1). The phenomenon of the “CBD Dispensary” has taken hold—both in the form of a physical storefront and massive online presence. In even the most conservative bastions, you will find them. Some are seedy and not well-appointed; while others are highly stylized with thought-provoking displays carefully designed to draw the eye and the pocketbook. The products are limitless with lotions, coffees, pet treats, gum, and many more infusions that are possible. CBD seems to be in everything.
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Fig. 4.1 Example of twenty-first century “CBD Dispensary” (Photo courtesy of the author)
How much knowledge these businesses have of chemical history is debatable, but they exist as an extension for a drug that ranges from misunderstood and feared to a panacea for pain [3].1 Time and time again throughout this project, when I told people I was working on CBD they wanted to try to understand how the dosage worked and the notion of “trust” was mentioned because they have seen the massive advertisement campaigns for the product. As this study has tracked, from Maltos-Cannabis to the present, distrust continues to be a regular theme, as consumers try to decide if investing in something that is medically difficult to track through the generation of data. Today, even after almost 80 years of research and development, we still have much to learn about CBD’s properties and capabilities. What we do know is that CBD is a technically legal even in places like the United States, but the major issue it faces is that since laboratories are unable to legally perform tests on the product, there is no means to tell its effects—more data continues to be needed [4]. 1
In America, the FDA attempts to regulate CBD stores that sell illegally branded items, but it is difficult to keep up. CBD Dispensaries can be
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