Yes, to a certain extent - but real cannabis, especially these days with the strains they have, requires very small amounts to get me to a point of real psychoactive / emotional release. However with CBD I was probably significantly overdoing the dosage (there is no recommended dosage, but I had gone way over the limits I set myself). I suspect it was the THC in the “full spectrum” CDB that was having that effect, but from my experience and from what a lot of other people report, isolate CBD just doesn’t work, at all, its more the combinations of CBD with micro-doses of THC and the other cannabinoids that help people. I also have to say that I am very sensitive to cannabis, always have been, and 90% of the population isn’t sensitive. However, I also think that people with autism have a strong chance of being in the 10% of people who are exceptionally sensitive to cannabis / cannabinoids, because there’s a tendency to hold a lot of tension in the body, which can be released by stims, or cannabis, quite easily, causing anxiety attacks or worse, depending on the person’s emotional maturity. But, I never had any problems with full spectrum CDB until I got flu and also was taking paracetamol.
I did a lot of experimenting with CBD and its a very diverse area, from zero effect to quite useful, depending on the product and the dose.
So, at some point you are going to have to experiment to a certain degree.
In general, people recommend “full spectrum” products - they contain all cannabis ingredients, including the psychoactive THC.
It’s worth noting that paracetamol is a cannabinoid reuptake inhibitor, so will amplify the effects of the CBD / THC, which is not always desirable.
My personal experience with CBD was that it calmed my anxiety quite a bit, but one time after taking a lot when i had flu with paracetamol, it took me over the edge into a full blown panic attack - I thought I was going absolutely bananas until I realised this is what happened to me sometimes as a teenager smoking cannabis. Personally, I chose to investigate what was behind the panic attacks and so moved from CBD to real cannabis for about 9 months, until I had taken it as far as was useful to me, in investigating the feelings behind my panic attacks.
So, you will hear a lot from people who have miracle cures for their ailments from CBD, which I do not doubt, but it’s also worth remembering 1) there’s so much diversity in product that there’s no guaranteed solution 2) the stuff is cannabis and you have to be aware that cannabis can have very strong effects on some people leading to full blown panic attacks or even psychotic incidents if people cannot process their panic.
Can anyone provide any information on cbd oil dosage for a autistic child?
There does not seem to be much publically available info out there on this subject as the lack of medical trials on children means there is not much to go on.
With little professional verification that CBD is safe for children (there is a serious lack of studies involving under 18s), if you do decide to give CBD to a child, make sure you are aware of any potential risks, consult a doctor and are vigilant about dosages.
They recommend working with a medical professional rather than a DIY approach.
Also looking at the Great Ormond Street Hospital site:
We have no real information on the side-effect profile of cannabinoid oils, especially in young children, who may be extremely sensitive to small doses. In addition, young children are often unable to accurately describe adverse effects meaning toxicity may be under reported.
There is no information on the long-term effects of cannabinoids.
Cetailny looking at the long term mental effects of marijuana use (which have caniboids as their main active ingredient) there are enough serious adverse effects to make considering long term caniboid use in children a very dubious plan.
I would recommend starting with your GP and seeing if they can recommend a specialist before considering what is potentially a path with long term mental detriments for your child.
my dad takes cbd oil to be honest... im not sure why but he takes all sorts of vitamins he doesnt need as hes a bit of a hypercondriach.
but he says something like, you have to take the oil by dipping it under your tongue or something and letting it absorb as it absorbs better that way or something. not sure if thats true or not though.
keep us posted if it works though and what effects it has. it will be interesting to see if it does have any result on anxiety and reaction/behaviours.
Thanks Martin. Our son stims quite alot and we find it at times to communicate with him. My son has some vocabulary but fonds it hard to use sentences. Speech and language more or less told us they have done all they can. We feel if we could get more of our sons attention we could communicate better.
If we did get cbd oil we would be mixing it with his food or drink as he has sensory issues with types of food.
The oil has a rather unpleasant taste, for a child 'gummies' - like fruit pastilles - would be much better tolerated. I have no idea about dosage. I'm sure an online search would yield results. Dosage of any drug/medicine is usually based on the weight of the person.
does that stuff work? i heard most of the actual beneficial parts of the plant are in the bits of it that they filter out of cbd oil anyway rendering cbd oil less useful for medicinal purposes that the whole actual drug plant itself.
and i think for a small tincture cbd is like £60 while the real deal full plant that works cost only £10.
to my conclusion i begin to suspect that cbd oil is the modern equivalent of snake oil, if anyones heard the term snake oil salesman.
