That's me trying CBD at a shop in New York City.

那是我在紐約市的一家商店裡試吃CBD。

Lately, I've seen this stuff everywhere, okay, at your local health food store, but also at Urban Outfitters, Sephora and CBD shops like this one.

最近，我已經看到這個東西到處都是，好吧，在你當地的健康食品店，但也在Urban Outfitters，Sephora和CBD商店像這樣。

And if you look at some of the branding, it kind of makes sense.

而如果你看一些品牌，就有點道理。

Thes products claim to help with everything from anxiety to insomnia to muscle pain.

這些產品聲稱可以幫助從焦慮到失眠到肌肉疼痛的一切。

It almost sounds too good to be true, and maybe it iss to find out.

這幾乎聽起來好得不能再好了，也許就能找到答案。

I set up a little experiment for one week.

我佈置了一個星期的小實驗。

I took CBD three times a day, while at the same time I tracked my anxiety with a scorecard, and I also chatted with an expert before and after to sort through the results.

我每天吃三次CBD，同時我用記分卡追蹤自己的焦慮情緒，前後還和專家哈拉，梳理結果。

Here's what I learned.

這是我瞭解到的情況。

CBD is a distant cousin of THC that's the psychoactive chemical in marijuana.

CBD是THC的遠親，是大麻中的精神活性化學物質。

They both come from the cannabis plant.

它們都來自於大麻植物。

But CBD isn't psychoactive, meaning it doesn't get you high now.

但CBD不是精神活性物質，也就是說它不會讓你現在就嗨起來。

Of course, getting high isn't the only reason why cannabis is popular.

當然，嗑藥並不是大麻受歡迎的唯一原因。

People also use it to relieve pain, control seizures and lessen anxiety.

人們還用它來緩解疼痛，控制癲癇發作，減輕焦慮。

But as researchers like Dr Yasmin Heard are discovering, it's likely CBD, not THC.

但正如Yasmin Heard博士等研究人員發現的那樣，很可能是CBD，而不是THC。

That's behind these benefits, it can activate some serotonin receptors, and serotonin system is associated with alleviating anxiety.

這就是這些好處的背後，它可以激活一些血清素受體，而血清素系統與緩解焦慮有關。

Dr.

博士

Hurt has been studying the effects of CBD for over 10 years, and she's found that it can reduce anxiety and people with a history of heroin addiction.

赫特研究CBD的效果已經超過10年，她發現它可以減少焦慮和有海洛因成癮史的人。

Now, fortunately, I don't have a history of addiction, but I do see a therapist for chronic anxiety and CBD could help both under normal conditions and in people who have anxiety disorders, enough research has started to show that it does have an anti anxiety effect.

現在，幸運的是，我沒有成癮史，但我確實看到了慢性焦慮症的治療師，CBD在正常情況下和有焦慮症的人都可以幫助，足夠的研究已經開始表明，它確實有抗焦慮的作用。

So, back of the shop, I tried all kinds of products from sweets.

所以，後面的店鋪，我嘗試了各種糖果的產品。

It looked off toe lotions and sprays.

它看起來關閉腳趾乳液和噴霧劑。

E missed myself on while Dr Heard couldn't recommend a specific dose for me.

E錯過了自己上，而Heard醫生卻無法為我推薦具體的劑量。

She did say that 300 mg should be enough to feel something if I take it every day, because participants in clinical trials typically take anywhere from 300 to 600 mg.

她說300毫克應該足夠了，如果我每天都服用的話，就會有感覺，因為臨床試驗的參與者通常會服用300到600毫克不等。

So those chocolates and sprays, yeah, they weren't going to cut it.

所以，那些巧克力和噴霧，是的，他們不會削減它。

Instead, I went for something different.

而我卻選擇了不同的東西。

Tinctures, right, these.

酊劑，對，這些。

These are where you really get into the higher strength things.

這些都是你真正進入更高實力的東西。

Uh, I decided to err on the side of caution and take 250 mg each day broken out into three doses, 50 mg in the morning, 100 mg at midday and another 100 mg at night.

呃，我決定在謹慎的一面，並採取250毫克每一天打破了三個劑量，50毫克在早上，100毫克在中午和另一個100毫克在晚上。

That way it wouldn't hit me all at once.

這樣就不會一下子打到我身上。

All right?

好嗎？

Today is the day.

今天是個好日子

I'm kind of nervous.

我有點緊張。

All right, here we owe now.

好了，我們現在欠。

Mind you.

提醒你一下

This was a Wednesday, a work day.

今天是週三，是個工作日。

It's 50 e.

這是50E。

My mouth is filled with oil.

我的嘴裡充滿了油。

Right now it's like a nasty feeling and others tastes good.

現在就像一種討厭的感覺，別人的味道很好。

Side note.

附註：

The reason I'm taking CBD this way is that there are tons of capital areas under your tongue, so anything you put there could be absorbed directly into your bloodstream.

我之所以用這種方式服用CBD，是因為你的舌頭下面有大量的資本區域，所以你放在那裡的任何東西都可能被直接吸收到你的血液中。

Now, that's different than when you ingest CBD.

現在，這和你攝入CBD的時候不一樣。

Like with that chocolate.

就像那個巧克力。

Ah, lot of it is broken down by your stomach, so you probably won't feel much.

啊，很多都被你的胃分解了，所以你可能不會有什麼感覺。

Anyway, several hours later, I took my last dose of the day and I would say anything.

總之，幾個小時後，我吃了今天最後一劑藥，我什麼都願意說。

I just feel extremely tired.

我只是覺得非常累。

That was the first thing I noticed that CBD was making me drowsy.

這是我發現CBD讓我昏昏欲睡的第一件事。

Really drowsy, Doctor Heard said.

真的是昏昏欲睡，赫德醫生說。

That's actually a pretty normal side effect at high doses.

這其實是大劑量下很正常的副作用。

So tired.

好累啊

But as I discovered the next night.

但第二天晚上我發現。

It might also be great for hangovers.

也可能是宿醉的好幫手。

E went to a concert.

E去看了一場音樂會。

Carly Rae anyway, had some alcohol.

卡莉蕾反正喝了點酒。

The next morning, e felt great.

第二天早上，e感覺很好。

And according to Dr Heard, that might be because CBD also has some anti inflammatory effects.

而據赫德博士介紹，這可能是因為CBD還具有一定的抗炎作用。

But what about anxiety?

但是，焦慮呢？

What?

什麼？

I was really in this for.

我真的是為了這個。

Each morning I filled out the anxiety scorecard the doctor heard gave me.

每天早上，我都會填寫聽到醫生給我的焦慮評分卡。

It's a rough estimate of my daily emotional state, based on numbered responses to statements like I feel at ease.

這是我對自己日常情緒狀態的一個粗略估計，根據對我覺得很輕鬆等語句的編號反應。

But day to day, it was a lot harder to figure out whether CBD was actually helping.

但日積月累，要想知道CBD是否真的有幫助，難度很大。

After three days now of CBD, I am mostly just tired.

經過三天的CBD，我主要就是累了。

But over the weekend I finally got that relief.

但在週末，我終於得到了這種解脫。

I was looking for even more quickly than I had expected.

我找的比我想象的還要快。

So I happened.

所以我發生了。

It takes to be right before I had to do something kind of stressful today and I took 100 mg and felt like pretty quickly, I felt my nerves calming down, and I was like, Oh my God, this is totally working.

它需要是正確的之前，我不得不做的東西 一種緊張的今天，我花了100毫克，感覺像相當快，我覺得我的神經平靜下來，我很喜歡，哦，我的上帝，這是完全工作。

Um, which is really great because I feel like I'm looking for that.

嗯，這是非常偉大的，因為我覺得像我尋找的。

Like quick relief as everyone is now.

就像現在大家都在快速解脫一樣。

Of course, this could have been a placebo, E.

當然，這可能是一種安慰劑，E。

I mean, all of this could be placebo.

我的意思是，這一切都可能是安慰劑。

So a few days later, I tried it again in a similar high stress situation.

於是幾天後，我又在類似的高壓力情況下試了一次。

Knuckle, I actually feel a little bit more calm.

指關節，其實我覺得自己的心情更平靜一些。

It kind of puts me into this almost like Disassociative state.

這讓我陷入了這種幾乎是失聯的狀態。

I will say that I have also been listening to the Lion King soundtracks like, maybe that's a part of it.

我想說的是，我也一直在聽獅子王的配樂一樣，也許這也是其中的一部分。

When is the Lion King not gonna relax you?

獅子王什麼時候不放鬆你？

Right.

好吧，我知道了

At that point, I just had one day left.

那時候，我只剩下一天時間了。

I must say, I'm kind of excited to stop having to take this three times a day.

我必須說，我有點興奮，不用再每天吃三次這個了。

I think part of it is just like scheduling it, remembering I've also just been so much more tired.

我想有一部分就是像安排時間一樣，記得我也是剛剛才累了好多。

I don't feel like my anxiety was kind of washed away.

我不覺得我的焦慮算是被沖淡了。

I felt like there were a few times where it really helped.

我覺得有幾次真的很有用。

In certain instances, onboard overall, kind of maybe lowered three intensity of how I was feeling because I felt kind of lethargic at the end.

在某些情況下，在船上整體上，有點也許降低了三個強度，我是如何的感覺，因為我覺得有點昏昏欲睡在最後。

I looked over my anxiety scorecard and sure enough, it showed that I was feeling slightly less anxious on my last day compared to my first.

我翻看了一下自己的焦慮記分卡，果然，記分卡上顯示，我最後一天的焦慮感比第一天稍有緩解。

Especially when I looked at statements like this.

尤其是當我看了這樣的報表。

Yeah, that's a big one for me.

是啊，這對我來說是個大問題。

And I was excited to run these results by Doctor heard.

而我也很興奮，聽說博士跑這些結果。

How do you feel?

你覺得怎麼樣？

Um, to be honest, I don't feel that different.

嗯，說實話，我不覺得有什麼不同。

I think that the biggest change that I noticed is I was just tired all the time.

我想，我發現最大的變化就是我一直很累。

Kind of like slow mo like with Arja.

有點像慢悠悠的mo，就像和阿佳在一起。

That makes me feel like a little bit disassociated with reality, but quite kind of a good way.

這讓我覺得自己有點脫離現實，但挺好的一種方式。

And I think that that is what made me feel a little less anxious at times.

我想，這也是讓我有時感到不那麼焦慮的原因。

Taking it at night only might be the best.

只在晚上服用可能是最好的。

So that this way get past the initial sedative effects or groggy effects, and then you don't have to worry about taking other things like caffeine.

所以，這種方式得到過去的初始鎮靜效果或昏昏欲睡的效果，然後你不必擔心服用其他東西，如咖啡因。

Oh, so on to try and keep away.

呵呵，所以上要儘量遠離。

And what about those moments of mawr Instant relief?

那那些瞬間的茅塞頓開呢？

Was that in my head, or could CBD act that fast?

是我腦子進水了，還是CBD能這麼快發揮作用？

Yeah, absolutely.

是的，絕對的。

For us in our studies, you know, people did shortly after getting CBD, but again at higher doses than you had.

對於我們的研究，你知道，人們在得到CBD後不久就做了，但又比你的劑量高。

Um did have report reduced anxiety, but if there was one take away from our conversations.

嗯確實有報告 減少焦慮， 但如果有一個採取從我們的談話，

It was this CBD.

就是這個CBD。

Ironically, even though it's now this huge fat in our society, we still don't have a very good handle on how it's working.

諷刺的是，即使現在社會上有了這塊巨大的肥肉，但我們仍然沒有很好地掌握它的工作原理。

In other words, we don't know what size dose you should take, how exactly it changes your brain or how it impacts different people in different ways.

換句話說，我們不知道你應該服用多大的劑量，它到底如何改變你的大腦，或者它對不同的人有什麼不同的影響。

And that's largely because until late 2018, nearly all CBD was classified as an illegal substance, which made it really difficult for scientists to study.

而這主要是因為在2018年底之前，幾乎所有的CBD都被歸類為非法物質，這讓科學家們研究起來真的很困難。

And while research is starting to catch up, in some ways it's kind of too late.

雖然研究開始跟上了，但在某些方面有點太晚了。

It's one of the first times in history that the public is determining whether something is medicine, not scientists and physicians.

這是歷史上第一次由公眾而不是科學家和醫生來決定某樣東西是否是藥。

As for me, will I continue using CBD?

至於我，我會繼續使用CBD嗎？

Yeah, but likely Onley for those moments when I need that instant relief because, well, it seems to benefit a lot of people.

是的，但很可能是Onley，當我需要瞬間緩解的時候，因為，它似乎讓很多人受益。

I'm personally not fully convinced and also because this bottle it costs more than $130.

我個人並不完全相信，也因為這瓶它的價格超過了130元。

And if I'm going to spend that much on anything, I wanna be totally sure that it works.

如果我要花那麼多錢買東西，我想完全確定它的效果。