The National Animal Supplement Council (NASC) is promoting a new study that it says shows CBD is “safe for long-term use” in dogs—a significant finding given emerging research that cannabis can effectively treat conditions such as anxiety and certain skin diseases among canines. The study found that a variety of cannabinoids, including CBD, CBDA and CBG, were “well-tolerated” in healthy dogs at a dose of 5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day.
From 2010 to 2023, the rate of adverse events for CBD was 2.1 for every one million administrations and 0.01 serious adverse events for every one million administrations. NASC President Bill Bookout, whose group funded the study, said in a press release on Tuesday that the results show the cannabis components that were examined “are safe for long-term use in healthy dogs when given at the dose studied.”
“With safety studies, no matter how well controlled or meticulously defined, it is impossible to account for everything that can occur when a product is commercialized. That is why this safety study includes not only data from a well-designed study protocol, but also 10 years of post-market surveillance data,” Bookout said. “No other study that we are aware of is as comprehensive and includes both data sets.”
