Marco Zenone and Jeremy Snyder are with the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. Timothy Caulfield is with the Health Law Institute and the Faculty of Law and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Am J Public Health. 2020 Oct;110(S3):S294-S299. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305768.
To use crowdfunding campaigns to better understand how cannabidiol (CBD) is represented (and misrepresented) as cancer-related care. We analyzed CBD-related crowdfunding campaigns (n = 155) created between January 2017 and May 2019 in multiple countries on GoFundme.com. More than 81.9% of campaigns fundraised CBD for curative or life-prolonging reasons, and 25.2% fundraised for pain management. Most campaigns seeking funds for CBD for cancer-related care on GoFundMe are for curative or life-prolonging purposes and present CBD definitively as an effective treatment option. In general, campaigners supported their funding requests with anecdotal claims of efficacy and referenced sources of information that were either not evidence-based or that misrepresented existing evidence. Misinformation around CBD for cancer is widespread on medical crowdfunding campaigns. Given the potential adverse impact, crowdfunding platforms, like GoFundMe, must take steps to address their role in enabling and spreading this misinformation.
利用众筹活动来更好地了解大麻二酚 (CBD) 如何被描述(以及被错误描述)为与癌症相关的护理。我们分析了 2017 年 1 月至 2019 年 5 月期间在 GoFundme.com 上多个国家/地区创建的与 CBD 相关的众筹活动(n = 155)。超过 81.9%的活动为了治疗或延长生命的目的而筹集 CBD 资金,25.2%的活动为了缓解疼痛而筹集资金。在 GoFundMe 上为与癌症相关的护理而寻求 CBD 资金的大多数活动都是为了治疗或延长生命的目的,并明确将 CBD 作为一种有效的治疗选择。通常,活动家们通过轶事疗效声称和参考非基于证据的信息来源或错误表示现有证据来支持他们的资金请求。关于 CBD 治疗癌症的错误信息在医疗众筹活动中广泛存在。鉴于潜在的不利影响,众筹平台(如 GoFundMe)必须采取措施解决其在促成和传播这种错误信息方面的作用。