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A Citrus-Scented Cannabis Compound Reduces Anxiety for Weed Users

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Cannabis consumers may be familiar with the paranoia that can come from taking too many gummies or smoking too much weed. New research into cannabis reveals how a lemon-scented terpene d-limonene can ease anxiety without diminishing the high.  Join Scientific American, Springer Nature and Nature Portfolio in Washington, D.C. on May 17 for Science on the Hill. Register now! Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new everyday: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for our daily newsletter.  Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest Allison Parshall. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3

Cannabis is supposed to help you chill out, but finding the right dose to induce those calming effects is notoriously difficult.

0:43.4

Just a little too much can send a cannabis user spinning out in the opposite direction.

0:48.6

Recreational users sometimes call this acute anxiety and panic paranoia,

0:52.9

and it's a common complaint from people

0:55.1

seeking emergency care for cannabis-induced intoxication. New research offers some hope for

1:01.1

folks who have trouble finding a relaxing high, and it comes from a surprising source.

1:07.1

For Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feldman. Scientific American's Associate News news editor Alison Parchelle is with me to tell us more about these new findings.

1:23.2

So I hear you've got some exciting news for the anxious weed smokers of the world.

1:28.8

Yes.

1:29.0

What's this new study all about?

1:30.5

If you've ever smoked too much weed or taken one too many THC gummies, you might be familiar

1:35.5

with this side effect that stoners have long called paranoia, just like this acute feeling

1:41.1

of anxiety and panic, like the world is just collapsing around you and

1:47.1

or everything is bad and terrible.

1:48.7

And you kind of just have to ride it out.

1:50.3

It's one of the main things that people complain about when they show up for emergency

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