“Alcohol is the world’s most widely used psychoactive drug, but chronic, excessive alcohol consumption leads to permanent organ damage or death..
In the current study, we use a rat model of binge alcohol consumption to determine the potential of cannabidiol (CBD) as a neuroprotectant against ethanol-induced neurotoxicity…
…we evaluated CBD as a neuroprotectant in a rat binge ethanol model.
When administered concurrently with binge ethanol exposure, CBD protected against hippocampal and entorhinal cortical neurodegeneration in a dose-dependent manner.
This study provides the first demonstration of CBD as an in vivo neuroprotectant…
CBD protects against binge alcohol-induced damage.”