CBD Research

Years ago, Katie was trying to come up with recommendations to help fix T's sleep schedule as well as deal with her anxiety and chronic pain, and was enthusiastic about a "CBD" sleep gummie. She was confident that it was better than other OTC sleep aids. I did some research because I was interested to find out if there had been any investigation of whether CBD was safe for kids. But what was funny was that the gummies that Katie thought were safe for kids because they were "non-prescription" in fact simply had a bunch of melatonin.

Here is a fairly stuffy report on CBD by the Mayo Clinic that just covers the basics without a lot of additional info: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/is-cbd-safe-and-effective/faq-20446700

Not sure if this site is MSM or a cleverly disguised alternate health promoter. The big takeaway from this site are a list of things it seems to be good at treating, and mention that any treatment mechanism is not actuallly known: https://www.verywellhealth.com/cbd-oil-benefits-uses-side-effects-4174562

This article claims to be a roundup of "evidenced-backed" health effects and also side effects: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cbd-oil-benefits?c=206704570355

This "Harvard" article promises to explain "what we know and what we don't." But it's from 2018 back before legalization. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cannabidiol-cbd-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-2018082414476

A compelling lead line from this NYT (i.e. paywalled) articles asks "Does it help?": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/style/self-care/cbd-oil-benefits.html

Sticker Club

Just to save some links from my research, some links about the curse of Sticker Club. This is an insideous attempt to use children as an excuse for chain letters. Who thinks chain letters would be a good idea? It would be all in fun except that the text of the letter is so shitty. We got this from treasured friends, but I was so temptmpted to alter the letter befor forwarding it that we never finished the project. I hope that N's friend at least got some stickers from more compentent parents.

I think this is a reprint of the article from a parent whose sympathetic atitude for the sticker club dilema convinced me to give it a try. https://indyschild.com/the-first-rule-of-sticker-club/

This is the now-dead link to the original artilce, I think: https://www.npnparents.org/posts/36,1st-rule-of-sticker-club-smile-just-do-it

Rachel Ray of all people is promoting this abomination. This is probably something that helped this take off: https://rachaelray.com/blogs/news/the-sticker-club

Another parent who hated this as much as I did: https://mumturnedmom.com/2014/03/26/welcome-to-sticker-club/

And finally another resistor: https://community.babycenter.com/post/a76223195/i-thought-i-was-done-with-chain-letters-in-1989

The google search turned up all kinds of variations in the letters which seemed to hint at the trail that this fad evolved through. I was looking for a nicer version of the letter and where it went so toxic.