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(1) CBD is an effective antipsychotic, but the consumer market for weed has been selectively breeding it out in favor of pure and dense THC strains.
(2) The way THC works on anxiety is a biphasic curve where at lower doses it reduces and at higher it increases. And because the efforts have been at increasing potency of flower, you can have a significant dosing range between a bowl of one strain and another.
If you would like to stop having a bad time getting high, try to actually measure and control the dose to a lower amount than what triggers the anxiety, and try to get a stain that has CBD alongside the THC (or just a high CBD strain to mix in).
A 2:1 THC:CBD ratio is a really good one personally. (This was the ratio of the 8th century BCE temple cannabis and turned out to be a great ratio when I replicated.)
There is work from the same group of researchers showing that CBD + THC actually exacerbates the effects of THC on psychosis symptoms in people with schizophrenia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40702165/
Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the beneficial effects of a gram of CBD on psychosis symptoms has to do with pharmacokinetic effects (CBD inhibits enzymes that metabolize a lot of drugs, meaning a gram of CBD in someone with Schizophrenia that is taking other medicines would increase their blood levels of the other medicines).
Not to say playing around with some CBD is a bad idea if it works for you, but the actual hard evidence on CBD acting as a counter weight to THC’s effects is pretty scant.
If OP has schizophrenia, my advice would adjust. But there’s many studies (not just one, which one should always be suspect of until more/meta) about the blunting effects of CBD on THC’s more negative effects on the general population going all the way back to 1982.
And this is a study that looked at fMRI differences when CBD was or wasn’t present.
So the ‘scant’ evidence is the opposite finding you are citing (which probably has more to do with the nuances of schizophrenia making it an outlier), not the claim CBD tempers the psychosis of THC in a normative population which is about as well studied as a thing can be when one component is a scheduled substance.
I brought up schizophrenia as your initial cited study mentioned the antipsychotic effect of CBD in people with schizophrenia, where you claimed that CBD is an antipsychotic.
The meta-analysis you’ve cited says that CBD does not consistently moderate the effects of THC across all outcomes and finished with a pretty lukewarm conclusion, that “CBD may interact with some acute effects of THC”.
My point being - the cannabis research field is not in a place to make any kind of concrete claims about CBD reducing the effects of THC. If it were, you’d see strong conclusions coming from meta-analyses, and cannabis companies wouldn’t stop citing the research when promoting their balanced CBD-THC strains.
I don’t think it’s healthy to give people the advice that there is concrete evidence that CBD will make THC more enjoyable for them. There is no magic bullet that will make THC enjoyable for some people - although again, more power to you if it works for you.
A few things.
(1) CBD is an effective antipsychotic, but the consumer market for weed has been selectively breeding it out in favor of pure and dense THC strains.
(2) The way THC works on anxiety is a biphasic curve where at lower doses it reduces and at higher it increases. And because the efforts have been at increasing potency of flower, you can have a significant dosing range between a bowl of one strain and another.
If you would like to stop having a bad time getting high, try to actually measure and control the dose to a lower amount than what triggers the anxiety, and try to get a stain that has CBD alongside the THC (or just a high CBD strain to mix in).
A 2:1 THC:CBD ratio is a really good one personally. (This was the ratio of the 8th century BCE temple cannabis and turned out to be a great ratio when I replicated.)
There is work from the same group of researchers showing that CBD + THC actually exacerbates the effects of THC on psychosis symptoms in people with schizophrenia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40702165/
Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the beneficial effects of a gram of CBD on psychosis symptoms has to do with pharmacokinetic effects (CBD inhibits enzymes that metabolize a lot of drugs, meaning a gram of CBD in someone with Schizophrenia that is taking other medicines would increase their blood levels of the other medicines).
Not to say playing around with some CBD is a bad idea if it works for you, but the actual hard evidence on CBD acting as a counter weight to THC’s effects is pretty scant.
If OP has schizophrenia, my advice would adjust. But there’s many studies (not just one, which one should always be suspect of until more/meta) about the blunting effects of CBD on THC’s more negative effects on the general population going all the way back to 1982.
Here’s a meta-analysis from 2019.
And this is a study that looked at fMRI differences when CBD was or wasn’t present.
So the ‘scant’ evidence is the opposite finding you are citing (which probably has more to do with the nuances of schizophrenia making it an outlier), not the claim CBD tempers the psychosis of THC in a normative population which is about as well studied as a thing can be when one component is a scheduled substance.
I brought up schizophrenia as your initial cited study mentioned the antipsychotic effect of CBD in people with schizophrenia, where you claimed that CBD is an antipsychotic.
The meta-analysis you’ve cited says that CBD does not consistently moderate the effects of THC across all outcomes and finished with a pretty lukewarm conclusion, that “CBD may interact with some acute effects of THC”.
Here’s another meta-analysis that also finds no consistent evidence that CBD improves the acute symptoms of THC: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30074-2/fulltext
My point being - the cannabis research field is not in a place to make any kind of concrete claims about CBD reducing the effects of THC. If it were, you’d see strong conclusions coming from meta-analyses, and cannabis companies wouldn’t stop citing the research when promoting their balanced CBD-THC strains.
I don’t think it’s healthy to give people the advice that there is concrete evidence that CBD will make THC more enjoyable for them. There is no magic bullet that will make THC enjoyable for some people - although again, more power to you if it works for you.