{"id":20752,"date":"2026-02-17T21:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=20752"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:19:01","slug":"cannabis-cbd-medical-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2026\/02\/cannabis-cbd-medical-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis &amp; CBD Medical Use."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Sir,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">The article by Sophie Christie (Telegraph Business 22 June ) could be read as a paean for Cannabis based medications and CBD particularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">While we have long suspected and said, that CBD in particular may well have clinical uses, \u00a0that is with caution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Evidence for the epigenetic and teratogenic effects of cannabis can easily be found via Google Scholar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">The NHS Wales lists the risk for Gastroschisis (babies with large intestines outside their bodies). Cannabis and Cocaine are both suspect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">There has been a gastroschisis outbreak in South Wales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">CBD is not off the hook, therefore self-medication and mass marketing of it and products containing it, may not be a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">As long ago as 1973 Professor Gabriel Nahas MD, PhD, DSc of Columbia University gave evidence to a Senate Committee \u00a0that, in vitro at least, molecules of the cannabinoids CBD and CBN, were, like THC, potent inhibitors of DNA production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">There seems to be a danger of CBD being oversold in the rush to market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">The last Teratogen that was marketed extensively was Thalidomide, we all know how that turned out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">The pharmaceutical regulation system, in a 1<sup>st<\/sup> world nation like the UK, is onerous for very good reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">We should trust that system , not seek to by-pass it<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">David Raynes<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">National Drug Prevention Alliance<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Slough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Source: Email from David to dtletters@telegraph.co.uk June 2018<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir, The article by Sophie Christie (Telegraph Business 22 June ) could be read as a paean for Cannabis based medications and CBD particularly. While we have long suspected and said, that CBD in particular may well have clinical uses, \u00a0that is with caution. Evidence for the epigenetic and teratogenic effects of cannabis can easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,41,121,64,142,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-genes","category-health","category-latest-news","category-marijuana-and-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20753,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20752\/revisions\/20753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}