Preliminary Findings Show CBD Could Help Fight Superbugs

The worrying ascent of superbugs that are immune to commonly used antibiotics is seeing researchers look for new solutions, especially in antibiotics research.

A new study has shown that CBD, or cannabidiol, extracted from cannabis plants is a "remarkably effective" candidate, at least in test conditions.

Preliminary results

These are very early findings and a lot more research is needed, so people should absolutely not self-medicate, the researchers say.

However, the study, did show that CBD has antibiotic effects against several Gram-positive bacteria, including types of staph and strep bacteria. Some of these strains had shows resistance to other antibiotic drugs.

"It needs a lot more work to show [that CBD] would be useful to treat infections in humans," said study lead author.

"It would be very dangerous to try to treat a serious infection with cannabidiol instead of one of the tried and tested antibiotics," he told.

A word of caution

A senior scholar did tell  that caution is needed in these studies. Especially as people might read preliminary results as conclusive evidence that CBD is an effective antibiotic.

Just because [CBD] has antibiotic activity in an in vitro assay doesn't mean it does in the human body," she said. "Lots of different compounds … have [antibiotic] activity in a petri dish."

The promise is there, but more tests and research are needed.

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