Most People are Self Medicating with CBD and Making Up Their Own Dosage Levels Says New Survey

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71% of CBD users are making up their own CBD dosage levels and about half of them are happy with it.

A new survey on how people are using CBD broke on Jesse Grillo’s CBD dosage site about how people are using CBD, or how they are making up their dosages! According to a survey of 1,000 CBD users it appears 71% of them make up their own CBD dosages and half feel pretty good about it.

Jesse published his results in the following format:

Key Findings

26% don’t check for concentration when looking for CBD products
22% don’t look at the portion before taking CBD
29% of CBD customers talked with an expert to decide their dose
48% will take a similar dosage each time they take CBD

Why Do They Take CBD?

18% use CBD for rest and sleep
12.5% use CBD for depression
31% use CBD every day
31% use CBD for pain
26.5% use CBD for nervousness/stress

How Do They Take CBD?

The survey found that 35% of respondents were inclined toward CBD edibles. A little more than 25% report that they lean toward oils and tinctures. Trailed by topicals coming in at 14%, and capsules at 12%. Only 10% of clients said they vaped their CBD.

CBD Dosage

The study found the average CBD dose was all over the place.

13% less than 5 mg
26% 5-10 mg
17% 10-20 mg
11% 20-40 mg
4% 40-70 mg
3% 70-100 mg
4% more than 100 mg each time

22% said they didn’t know the amount they take

Satisfaction

57% of respondents said they were happy with their current dosage. 17% said they were not.

One of the interesting tidbits is that over 1 in 5 people actually don’t know how much CBD they take in a given day or dosage. Basically, over 7 out of 10 people are making up their own dosages in a “trail and error method”, and over 1 in 5 aren’t sure how much they took at the end of the day.

This points to a glaring need for medical advice, or guidance, on the CBD dosage level that primary care doctors are either not giving or not aware of their patients taking CBD itself. While the cannabis plant is not studied in medical school, and only in the last 5 years have we seen medical quality studies starting on the effects of CBD, many people, including doctors, just don’t know much about the plant and its cannabinoids. It is hard to tell people dosages and levels when there isn’t much concrete dosage and effect information to doctors and medical professionals to call on and review.

For now, CBD may be settling down and lab testing is getting much better, but the dosage side is still the Wild West. Much like THC-based cannabis, it is “try a small amount, see how it goes, then try a bigger amount”, and see how your body responds. Trial and error reigns supreme in the hemp and cannabis world until full Federal legalization kicks in and studies can be done on varying age-groups and dosages to form a solid curriculum around “how much” and “how often”.