Patients with spinal cord injury experience severe bone loss below the level of spinal injury. The aim of this study was to determine if one of the non-psychoactive components (CBD) of marijuana would have a positive effect.
Adult male rats with a surgical cutting of the spinal cord were treated for 14 consecutive days with CBD.
It was found that treatment with CBD enhanced bone thickness, bone volume, increased internal structure, and created an increased ability to withstand a compressive force load in the tibia and fibula of the lower extremity.
In this study CBD demonstrated a resultant decrease in bone loss normally seen from spinal cord injury. Could the same thing be true in humans?
