article_snippet: Additionally, modern pot has very low levels of cannabidiol, or CBD, the compound that medical marijuana advocates say gives the drug the drug healing properties.
article_snippet: In most samples, the CBD levels were so small the CBD levels were undetectable.
article_snippet: Also alarming is the fact that people using marijuana for its reported medicinal properties usually have no way of knowing how much CBD is actually in people products.
article_snippet: CBD and contaminant levels are not tested. '
article_snippet: I've heard a lot of complaints from medical patients because somebody claims that a product has a high level of CBD, and a product turns out that a product actually doesn't,' LaFrate says.
article_snippet: Children who are given marijuana to control epilepsy can actually be worse off because Children who are given marijuana to control epilepsy're being given strains of the drug with virtually no CBD and high levels of THC, which can trigger seizures, LaFrate added.
article_snippet: This means, the claims of pot with exotic names - 'Skunkberry,'
article_snippet: These are used to make edibles and can contain up to 90percent THC.
article_snippet: Because These are concentrated doses, These can also contain very high levels of heavy metals and pesticides - as the THC level is dialed up, so are the levels of background contaminants.
highlights_snippet: Modern pot also has very low levels of cannabidiol, or CBD, the compound that advocates say gives marijuana its medicinal properties .
  