{"id":1682,"date":"2017-12-20T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cbd-products-are-a-rip-off-for-medical-marijuana-users-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:00:36","slug":"cbd-products-are-a-rip-off-for-medical-marijuana-users-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/cbd-products-are-a-rip-off-for-medical-marijuana-users-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"CBD products are a rip-off for medical marijuana users, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/contributor\/carter-sherman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carter Sherman<\/a>&nbsp;Nov 8, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Cannabidiol, a major component of marijuana, is in high demand these days for its purported health benefits. But a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2661569\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published on Tuesday discovered that people trying to treat themselves with cannabidiol products likely aren\u2019t getting what they\u2019re paying for.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by the University of Pennsylvania, tested 84 cannabidiol products purchased online from 31 companies and found that less than a third were properly labeled. Nearly 43 percent of the products \u2014 which included oils, tinctures, and vaporization liquid \u2014 contained less cannabidiol than their labels promised, indicating that they weren\u2019t potent enough to give their users the medicinal treatment they sought. Another 26 percent of the products contained more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/595wyn\/cbd-products-are-a-rip-off-for-medical-marijuana-users-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For moreFor more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2661569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STUDY<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2661569\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Carter Sherman&nbsp;Nov 8, 2017 Cannabidiol, a major component of marijuana, is in high demand these days for its purported health benefits. But a&nbsp;study&nbsp;published on Tuesday discovered that people trying to treat themselves with cannabidiol products likely aren\u2019t getting what they\u2019re paying for. The study, led by the University of Pennsylvania, tested 84 cannabidiol products purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-as-medicine","tag-cannabis-as-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}