I know a couple people who use CBD for anxiety and for helping them sleep. They say it helps. Whether it's nothing more than a mind game and placebo, I don't think it really matters...as long as it isn't doing harm in the long term. I also know a couple people who give their dogs CBD when they're traveling back and forth, both in planes and cars, from the midwest to their Florida homes. They say it helps keep them calm, but not drug them into listlessness. I trust they know their dogs. If they say it does something, it must. Know another person with chronic pain, and they finally took their health into their own hands, ie nothing the doctors recommended was working, and CBD seems to be helping with their pain. Again, a placebo that fools them? Who cares, as long as it isn't destroying their liver or whatever else. A wonder drug? Could be. Might not be, but if it successfully fools the mind, why not?
It's less regulated than the vitamin industry...boooo, the boogeyman, Marijuana. I'll ask the person with the chronic pain what they buy and get back to you.
*edit: I should add that the older person with chronic pain is in their upper 70s, grew up being sold how demonic marijuana is. They really labored over trying CBD. Weird how society can turn something as benign as a weed into this moral and ethical dilemma. The last time I heard, they were free of all that BS.