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Since 2018, it has been legal in the U.S. to use a drug made from purified cannabis-derived cannabidiol – CBD – to treat certain childhood seizure disorders. Visoot Uthairam/Moment via Getty Images

February 9, 2023

CBD is not a cure‑all – here’s what science says about its real health benefits

CBD isn’t a miracle cure for everything that ails a person – but science shows that it has the potential to help treat a number of health conditions.

A child with epilepsy during a seizure. www.shutterstock.com

July 25, 2019

CBD and genetic testing provide hope for ‘intractable’ epilepsy in children

Isabel Derera, Tufts University

About 470,000 children in the US have epilepsy. Promising advances are being made in the field of epilepsy treatment for children.

A new study suggests that CBD could help curve cravings in people who have an opioid use disorder. Evgenly Goncharov photo/Shutterstock.com

May 28, 2019

CBD: The next weapon in the war against opioid addiction?

Jenny Wilkerson, University of Florida and Lance McMahon, University of Florida

A study suggests that CBD could help treat people with opioid addiction. But before you go buy a bottle for any use, it’s important to know that it has been FDA-approved to treat only one disease.

Small vials of CBD, an ingredient in a drug just approved by the FDA to treat two types of epilepsy.. Roxana Gonzalez/Shutterstock.com

June 27, 2018

Approval of drug derived from cannabis not necessarily a win for weed

Timothy Welty, Drake University

A drug made from a molecule produced from cannabis gained approval from the FDA on June 25. But the molecule, CBD, is decidedly different from some other ingredients in cannabis: It doesn’t result in a high.

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