Inside STAT: CBD is forcing doctors to grapple with whether and how to prescribe it

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Contrary to the growing popularity of CBD products everywhere, there is scant science to support what many of the products are claiming to do. Beyond that, there is also little guidance for physicians to prescribe CBD products to patients who may be looking for some kind of therapeutic relief. This leaves the vast majority of doctors in uncharted territory. “The last thing that you can do is tell them, ‘Don’t do it,’ because that doesn’t work,” says Dr. Jacqueline French, a neurologist at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. “You can say, ‘Here’s what I know, and if you decide in any case to do it, please let me know.’” STAT’s Nicholas Florko has more here.