Old news and possibly paywalled! I was able to read it by scrolling down though.
To study CBD as a potential treatment for psychosis on a larger scale, researchers led by Philip McGuire, MD, professor of psychiatry at Oxford University in Oxford, United Kingdom, are launching the Stratification and Treatment in Early Psychosis (STEP) trial. Hailed by Nature Medicineas one of 11 studies that will shape medicine in 2025, STEP comprises three smaller trials and involves 1000 participants at 30 sites in Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.
Even if there is positive evidence in the future that CBD acts as an antipsychotic, I don’t think it will ever be the standard treatment, because of the business of the pharmaceutical industry.
its been 10 years since i first started having hope for cbd to be the antipsychotic that would be as groundbreaking as it seems on paper. i even wrote forms to my state in 2016 about approving schizophrenia as a condition for medical cannabis ao people can have access to cbd for treatment. ive kinda lost hope at this point. technically now cannabis is legal recreationally and my state and also with the hemp laws farm bill basically making cbd easier to get than ever, and vendors having cbd isolate affordable enough that you could use the amount used in studies to treat schizophrenia, i could have made the switch by now. maybe one day ill be a lab rat and take 1,000 mg cbd a day. i could have done it by now but it kinda left my mind as its been so many years with no push to make it an available treatment and more people saying it wouldnt work,
at this point tho the ap’s ive been on are starting to seem like they are making my overall health worse as ive been in remission for years and now deal with side effects and depression moreso than the sz symptoms i started with
I tried some liquid and hemp cigs but neither of them did much. The cigs chilled me out a little, but didn’t last long. the liquid did jack. Think I remember reading you need to megadose it to have it act as an AP.