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CBG (
cannabigerol) is being touted as the cure-it-all cannabis product, but can it live up to that hype? content creator/Shutterstock
The problem with the most exciting, most awesomest cure-it-all cannabis product to come along in maybe forever is that it s not exactly . How can we put this? . all that.
CBG, as it s widely known, has some possibilities, sure. Like other cannabis-derived wonders (CBD and THC being the biggies), CBG may yet prove the perfect balm to soothe our ailments and ease our troubles.
But right now, in early 2021: Are there any actual therapeutic uses for CBG? At all? There are none that have been proven. Zero, says Kent Vrana, a professor and chair of the department of pharmacology at the Penn State College of Medicine. He also co-wrote the 2020 paper, The Pharmacological Case for Cannabigerol (CBG) , that was published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.