What Is Cannabidiol (CBD)? An Analysis of the Benefits of Cannabis Extract
When people hear "cannabis," they think of it as an illegal drug that must not be touched! But at the Natural Products EXPO WEST held in California, USA, from March 6 to 9, 2019, all kinds of nutritional supplements and foods containing cannabis extract were on display,
When people hear "cannabis," they think of it as an illegal drug that must not be touched! But at the Natural Products EXPO WEST held in California, USA, from March 6 to 9, 2019, all kinds of nutritional supplements and foods containing cannabis extract were on display, including juices, sparkling drinks, beer, coffee, cannabis extract capsules, tea bags and more, which was truly eye-opening!
Products containing cannabis ingredients have been springing up like bamboo shoots after rain, bringing a new whirlwind to food innovation! But how does this kind of cannabis extract added to nutritional supplements and foods differ from the cannabis generally classified as an illegal drug? What effects does it have, and why are manufacturers rushing to use it?
The oral preparations containing cannabis extract CBD exhibited at the Natural Products EXPO WEST are advertised as having restorative and immune functions. The expo also featured Drink 420, a CBD-containing unsweetened sparkling beverage, currently available in elderflower lime and wild berry flavors.
There are hundreds of chemical substances in cannabis, and not all of the components are addictive!
What you usually hear called "cannabis" is actually the general term for the "cannabis plant." Cannabis contains more than 400 chemical substances, including tetrahydrocannabinol (tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC), cannabinol (cannabinol, or CBN), cannabidiol (cannabidiol, or CBD) and so on, and the ones most often used are CBD and THC. Among them, THC is addictive and is the main psychoactive component of cannabis, making you feel very "high" and very "drunk"; it is the main component that gets cannabis regulated as a "Schedule 2 drug" domestically! CBD, on the other hand, is the non-addictive component of cannabis, with a great many pharmacological activities and medical uses, and in recent years its effects have gradually been confirmed in clinical trials abroad!
⟦NL> The World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence, ECDD) has stated that CBD does not cause drug abuse and poses no harm to human health. Therefore, with food and biotechnology advancing by the day, many food, beverage and health food manufacturers have smelled this business opportunity and extracted the non-addictive CBD, which has health benefits, to add to their products; these new products even come in all kinds of different flavors and forms!
What exactly does CBD do, that makes everyone rush to use it?
According to a New York Times report, Gabe Kennedy, founder of "Plant People," a New York startup that makes CBD-related products, pointed out that after eating CBD foods, the body feels like it has taken a warm bath, and stress can be eliminated. Supporters of CBD say it can treat many conditions, such as pain, anxiety, insomnia, depression and so on, and abroad there are also many clinical treatments using it, for example for epilepsy, neuralgia, cancer, and vomiting caused by chemotherapy! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration, or FDA) says it is also paying close attention to the possibilities of cannabis and its derivatives!
