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Trial reportScientific reports2024

Acute effects of cannabigerol on anxiety, stress, and mood: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover, field trial.

Carrie Cuttler, Amanda Stueber, Ziva D Cooper, Ethan Russo

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of cannabigerol in male mice.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Carrie CuttlerDepartment of Psychology, Washington State University, PO Box 644820, Pullman, WA, 99164-4820, USA. carrie.cuttler@wsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5890-2985
Amanda StueberDepartment of Psychology, Washington State University, PO Box 644820, Pullman, WA, 99164-4820, USA.
Ziva D CooperUCLA Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA.
Ethan RussoCReDO Science, Vashon, WA, USA.

Funding

Analgesic and subjective effects of terpenes administered alone and in combination with THC: Potential THC- and opioid-sparing effects of myrcene and ß-caryophylleneR01AT010762 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT010762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cannabigerol (CBG) is a phytocannabinoid increasing in popularity, with preclinical research indicating it has anxiolytic and antidepressant effects. However, there are no published clinical trials to corroborate these findings in humans. The primary objective of this study was to examine acute effects of CBG on anxiety, stress, and mood. Secondary objectives were to examine whether CBG produces subjective drug effects or motor and cognitive impairments. A double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over field trial was conducted with 34 healthy adult participants. Participants completed two sessions (with a one-week washout period) via Zoom. In each, they provided ratings of anxiety, stress, mood, and subjective drug effects prior to double-blind administration of 20 mg hemp-derived CBG or placebo tincture (T0). These ratings were collected again after participants ingested the product and completed an online survey (T1), the Trier Social Stress Test (T2), a verbal memory test and the DRUID impairment app (T3). Relative to placebo, there was a significant main effect of CBG on overall reductions in anxiety as well as reductions in stress at T1. CBG also enhanced verbal memory relative to placebo. There was no evidence of subjective drug effects or impairment. CBG may represent a novel option to reduce stress and anxiety in healthy adults.

Indexed as

AffectAnxietyCross-Over StudiesStress, PsychologicalAdultCannabinoidsDouble-Blind MethodFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultcannabigerolCannabinoidsAnxietyCannabigerolImpairmentIntoxicationMemoryStress

Identifiers

PMID39003387
PMCPMC11246434

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