The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get You High

Re:The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get ... by zfrenchee on Saturday July 21, 2018 @08:18PM (#17584589)

I'm really perplexed by this refrain that CDB is "not psychoactive"

> A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_drug

Isn't the point of taking it that it's psychoactive?

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Re:The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get ... by nbardy on Saturday July 21, 2018 @09:04PM (#17584720)

"Not psychoactive" is definitely not the right term. CBD affects, indirectly, the GABA receptors in your brain. It's pretty clearly psychoactive. The "non-psychoative" seems to have picked up a colloquial usage that essentials equates to "doesn't get me high".

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Re:The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get ... by majewsky on Saturday July 21, 2018 @08:33PM (#17584632)

This definition does not match people's expectation of what counts as "psychoactive". By this definition, if eating chocolate alleviates my bad mood, it's a psychoactive drug.

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Re:The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get ... by GalacticDomin8r on Saturday July 21, 2018 @08:42PM (#17584660)

Seems like that's a good definition then, if it's reproducible across a large number of people in a scientifically rigorous format.

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Re:The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get ... by sneak on Saturday July 21, 2018 @08:40PM (#17584652)

Chocolate contains caffeine, which is indeed psychoactive.

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