CBD significantly reduces subjects’ cravings for alcohol, according to placebo-controlled clinical data published in the journal Nature: Molecular Psychiatry. Researchers assessed the use of CBD versus placebo in 28 subjects who consumed alcohol daily.
“Individuals receiving CBD … reported significantly lower alcohol cravings,” investigators wrote. “No adverse events or serious adverse events were reported by the study participants during the test session.” The study’s authors concluded: “ In summary, the observed potential of CBD to reduce alcohol craving, together with its good safety profile, supports the potential of CBD to treat individuals with AUD [alcohol use disorder]”.
Participants who ingested CBD-dominant cannabis during the trial period “drank fewer drinks per drinking day, had fewer alcohol use days, and fewer alcohol and cannabis co-use days” compared with those who did not.
