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So, #CatTwitter - #Cannabidiol for cats? Daisy has started p***ing (not spraying) on the bed again & we have a feeling she’s not happy vs. ill because she’s had antibiotics from the vet already which stopped it for a few weeks and now it’s happening again. Since #CBDoil is >
> supposed to be good for unrinary tract infections, anxiety/depression, pain, anti-inflammatory etc, it seems like it could help with lots of potential causes of the p***ing the bed. It was just the bed, but when we shut her away from the bedroom she p* on the sofa. We have no >
> idea if it’s physical or psychological. She’s 16, never done this before, we got her tested and there was a slight indication she may have had a UTI, this seemed to get better with a course of pill antibiotics (just after a course of liquid antibiotics because of a chest >
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ATTN #CBD stakeholders: @US_FDA today holding scientific conf. on CBD/other #cannabinoids. I'll be live tweeting throughout. Not sure we'll get much insight on immediate path forward for consumer products but I'll share noteworthy observations. Agenda: bit.ly/3pHXU8V
I'll be paying particular attention to @DrAbernethyFDA's remarks at 9:05a (head of #FDA's #CBD Policy Working Group) and @DThrockmortonMD's keynote at 9:15a (one of Agency's principals for regulating R&D, manufacture & marketing of #cannabis & cannabis-derived #drug products).
And we're underway! First up is Kaveeta Vasisht, MD, PharmD. Associate Commissioner for Women’s
Health and Director, Office of Women’s Health, FDA. She's noting ubiquity of #CBD products in marketplace, many of which are targeted to #women.
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In response to the recent @NYTimes editorial on cannabis and as a committee member on the @theNASEM #cannabis and #cannabinoids report we did NOT conclude that cannabis causes schizophrenia.

What Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know nyti.ms/2Rw2ngF
We found 1) an #association between cannabis use and schizophrenia and 2) an #association between cannabis use and IMPROVED cognitive outcomes in individuals with psychotic disorders (not mentioned in the editorial).
Since the report, we now know that genetic risk for schizophrenia predicts cannabis use, shedding some light on the potential direction of the association between cannabis use and schizophrenia.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30150663
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