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Cannabidiol in Anxiety and Sleep: A Large Case Series

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A large retrospective case series involving clinical application of CBD for anxiety and sleep complaints as an adjunct to usual treatment found CBD was well tolerated in all but 3 patients.
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Context Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of many cannabinoid compounds found in cannabis. It does not appear to alter consciousness or trigger a “high.” A recent surge in scientific publications has found preclinical and clinical evidence documenting value for CBD in some neuropsychiatric disorders, including epilepsy, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Evidence points toward a calming effect for CBD in the central nervous system. Interest in CBD as a treatment of a wide range of disorders has exploded, yet few clinical studies of CBD exist in the psychiatric literature.

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"What a long, strange trip it's been".

TL;DR: This paper attempts to examine and reflect on the experiences of being a beginning social worker and beginning teacher, and describes the similarities between the two processes.
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Medicinal Cannabis for Psychiatric Disorders: A Clinically-Focused Systematic Review

TL;DR: There is currently encouraging, albeit embryonic, evidence for medicinal cannabis in the treatment of a range of psychiatric disorders, however, clinicians need to be mindful of arange of prescriptive and occupational safety considerations, especially if initiating higher dose THC formulas.
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Cannabidiol and other non-psychoactive cannabinoids for prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders: Useful nutraceuticals?

TL;DR: The hemp plant is looked at as a possible source of new functional food ingredients and nutraceuticals that might be eventually useful to treat or even prevent gastrointestinal conditions and the available data showing that non-psychoactive phytocannabinoids, particularly cannabidiol, may be useful to treatment different disorders and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are revised.
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Cannabidiol: A Potential New Alternative for the Treatment of Anxiety, Depression, and Psychotic Disorders.

TL;DR: Preliminary clinical trials support the efficacy of CBD as an anxiolytic, antipsychotic, and antidepressant, and more importantly, a positive risk-benefit profile, and support the development of large-scale studies to further evaluate CBD as a potential new drug for the treatment of these psychiatric disorders.
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Cannabidiol (CBD) use in psychiatric disorders: A systematic review.

TL;DR: There is currently limited evidence regarding the safety and efficacy of CBD for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, however, available trials reported potential therapeutic effects for specific psychopathological conditions, such as substance use disorders, chronic psychosis, and anxiety.
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Cannabis sativa: The Plant of the Thousand and One Molecules

TL;DR: Prospects on the benefits linked to the use of the -omics technologies, such as metabolomics and transcriptomics to speed up the identification and the large-scale production of lead agents from bioengineered Cannabis cell culture, are presented.
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Cannabis in painful HIV-associated sensory neuropathy A randomized placebo-controlled trial

TL;DR: Smoked cannabis was well tolerated and effectively relieved chronic neuropathic pain from HIV-associated sensory neuropathy and an experimental pain model as discussed by the authors, which is comparable to oral drugs used for chronic pain.
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