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Today, Explained

CBD? TBD.

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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CBD is winding up in your lattes, your gummies, and your massages, but what exactly is it? And is anyone regulating it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The other day I was trying to print something at the Vox offices here in DC and the printer wasn't working.

0:05.3

I was like, what's going on? I don't have time for this. Turns out it wasn't even on and like the power button is in a pretty obscure place.

0:13.6

And I don't know, the printer's not a brother, but brothers power buttons are in the right place.

0:19.4

Learn more at changethewayuinc.com.

0:22.4

So Dan, the first time I heard about CBD was with a friend we were going to a movie and he was like, hey you want to smoke some CBD?

0:33.1

And I was like, what CBD? And he was like, it's like marijuana without the THC. My mom sent it to me.

0:40.0

When was the first time you heard about CBD?

0:42.0

I think the first time I started really wondering about it was when it started popping up in cafes and coffee shops and restaurants all around my neighborhood in New York.

0:52.1

How is it being sold in cafes and coffee shops around your neighborhood in New York?

0:56.5

There's like no limit to it.

0:58.8

I find it in smoke shops and convenience stores and beauty shops.

1:06.4

But you can also buy stuff like CBD dog treats. You can buy CBD massages, CBD chocolate chip cookies.

1:13.6

You can find ice cream, CBD cocktails are becoming like a really popular thing.

1:19.3

There were reports that Coca-Cola is working on a CBD infused beverage of some sort.

1:24.9

So it's definitely a huge, huge market and a hugely successful product.

1:29.6

The one that I tried for the story is a CBD latte, which cost about $9.

1:36.4

And what was the selling point of like a $9 latte?

1:40.1

Well they can't really talk about it, which is really interesting.

1:43.0

When I talk to people who sell CBD, they are not really allowed by FDA rules to talk about what it can do because it hasn't been

1:51.9

inspected to see if it actually does that stuff.

1:54.2

So they just kind of talk about wellness or like some kind of holistic improvement that you might feel.

2:00.4

Why don't we talk about it you and me right now?

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