The studied dose is 750mg a day; shoppers take 50.3mg
The prescription medicine is dosed by weight: about 750mg a day for a 75kg adult, up to 1,500mg. US adults buying cannabidiol themselves averaged 50.3mg.
What the study found
The prescription dose runs fifteen to thirty times what people take
The prescription cannabidiol medicine approved in the US is dosed by body weight: for a 75kg adult, about 750mg a day at maintenance and up to 1,500mg. US adults buying cannabidiol for themselves averaged 50.3mg a day. The evidence sits at a dose almost nobody takes.
The caveat · Milligrams assume a 75 kg adult
The prescription figures are set per kilogram of body weight; the milligram equivalents here use the label's own 75kg reference, and many of the patients in these trials are children. The consumer average has a standard deviation of 40.7mg, nearly as wide as the mean itself.