The benefits are definitely exaggerated. If you rely on opiates for pain or on benzos for anxiety, it’s not going to be a substitute, not even close, if you’re trying to break an addiction to benzos and need a crutch it can help but you need to be self motivated.
That said, I’ve personally had positive effects using it to relieve stress and mild headaches and help me sleep, not fixing insomnia per se but helping settle my thoughts so I can rest more easily. I’m a huge pothead though, your experience may vary.
It’s not a miracle cure and it’s not gonna fix actual disorders like crippling anxiety, there’s also basically no regulation so quality is hugely inconsistent and a lot of cbd products have little to no cbd and contain random chemicals, make sure you do your research, if you tryna reliable product you might get a better result.
Also a lot of cbd products do literally nothing, like cbd shampoo or something your body can absorb exactly 0 cbd through the hair and scalp gg paying $35 for a low quality shampoo, and there’s SO many products like this, soap, lip balm, lotion, all of them up charged 2-3x a reasonable price because the cbd sticker. It’s just the latest in a long rooted American tradition of marketing fish oils with minimal therapeutic benefits as magical cure-all’s, that’s how coke started.
In conclusion, op you should try phenibut if you haven’t