Best CBD Gummies for Anxiety in 2026

Almost a third of US adults experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. This isn’t the same as the passing anxieties everyone gets from things like public speaking, it’s persistent anxiety which makes it difficult to live your life. The available evidence strongly suggests that CBD can be a useful tool in managing anxiety disorders. 

This is why anxiety was the most common reason for trying CBD in America. But with wildly-varying quality control and inconsistent regulation, choosing safe CBD for anxiety is not easy.

But that’s where our Cannabinoid Product Quality Evaluation framework comes in.

We rated and ranked 105 different CBD gummies for anxiety using our Cannabinoid Product Quality Evaluation framework and first-hand testing, and these are the three best.

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Other CBD Gummies We Considered for Anxiety Relief

From 105 products, only three were good enough to make the final cut. Although there were many other good options, most the remaining hundred products fell short because of factors like:

• No recent lab report: 33 products were discounted because there was no lab report available for the product from within the last 12 months. Of these 33, 9 products didn’t have a lab report available at all, including brands that require a batch number to access a report. If you have the batch number, you’ve already bought it.
• Not full panel safety tested: 40 products did not include safety testing for heavy metals, pesticides, residual solvents, microbial contamination and mycotoxins. In some cases, these were tested for some but not all (i.e. not “full panel”), but most were not safety tested at all.
• Not true full/broad spectrum: 33 products were not tested for terpenes. Another 2 claimed to be full or broad spectrum but didn’t contain more than four cannabinoids. Terpenes have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the extract, and without this and at least four cannabinoids, products can’t be confirmed to be full or broad spectrum.

Products which met all of the initial criteria went through to full scoring. The brands which made it through to this stage but didn’t earn a recommendation were: Premium Jane, Five, Vena, and Elixinol.

These products tick most of the boxes we’re looking for. Unfortunately, they generally fell short when it came to quality control and trust, reputation and marketing. However, the gummies themselves are still worth trying if you’re looking for additional options.  

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Methodology

• Expert insights: We spoke to two experts on CBD and cannabinoids for anxiety to guide the rest of the process. In particular, we received advice about dosage, THC content, other cannabinoids and terpenes. This enabled us to choose specific products from each brand.
• Market research: We searched online for “CBD gummies for anxiety” and “CBD gummies” to find potential products. The search was conducted using an Oracle-coded algorithm, which takes the top 250 search results, along with any relevant internal links, and compiles the URLs and scraped text into a spreadsheet.
• AI-assisted product selection: The spreadsheet was then given to ChatGPT, alongside the key criteria from the expert interviews. It was tasked with finding two products from each brand that are marketed for anxiety and meet as many of the expert criteria as possible. The output is then checked by Oracle and compiled into a final spreadsheet.
• Scoring: All products were evaluated using our Cannabinoid Product Quality Evaluation Framework. Products that passed through the checks detailed above were scored in full. We used only the three highest-scoring products for this list, meaning they all score highly on safety, efficacy and reliability.

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Expert Advice: How to Choose the Best CBD Gummies for Anxiety

We spoke to two experts in cannabinoids and anxiety to help us find out what you should look out for in a CBD gummy marketed for anxiety. Our specific recommendations are above if you just want to find something effective and safe quickly. However, if you want to look through the options for yourself, here’s what we learned from speaking to the experts.

Is CBD Helpful for Anxiety?

CBD does seem to help people with anxiety conditions such as generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, according to our expert interviews and a 2024 meta-analysis.

Researchers point out that more evidence is needed, particularly studies on women. However, the overall picture is pretty consistent across different studies.

We spoke to Dr. Apoorva Reddy, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and cannabis specialist. She was the lead author on a paper on cannabis for anxiety and depression among cancer patients in late 2025. We asked her whether her findings apply to people with anxiety more broadly.

She told us that:

Some aspects of these findings may generalize to people with anxiety who do not have cancer. CBD’s anxiolytic mechanisms, particularly its interactions with serotonergic and endocannabinoid pathways, are not unique to cancer populations, and existing literature supports CBD’s broader anxiolytic potential.

But added that the size of the benefit they observed probably doesn’t translate directly to the general population. Cancer patients face unique clusters of symptoms. Plus, the condition could even impact how the body responds to cannabinoids. With that caveat in mind, though, she concluded:

For these reasons, I believe the direction of effect (greater CBD intake leading to reduced anxiety) is likely applicable beyond cancer populations. Still, the size and clinical relevance of that benefit may differ.

Which Other Cannabinoids Help With Anxiety?

We asked Dr. Ethan Russo, founder and CEO of CReDO Science, about the impact of cannabinoids other than CBD. Which ones should people look out for in a product?

He answered that:

CBD is effective for anxiety as an isolate, but only in a dose of hundreds of milligrams. In contrast, cannabigerol (CBG) has been proven effective at fractions of that dosage, specifically 20 mg orally at a time and without any evidence of impairment and, in fact, improvement in verbal memory (Cuttler et. al., 2024).

While CBD gummies don’t tend to have this much CBG – you’d need something focused on CBG itself for that – this makes it one of the best additional cannabinoids to look out for.

Is THC Helpful or Harmful for Anxiety?

THC has a bit of complicated relationship with anxiety. While it seems like it should be helpful – weed makes people relaxed, after all – it doesn’t take long looking into this to find people having the opposite experience. We asked Dr. Russo about this, and he explained that:

THC is well known for its biphasic dose-response curve with respect to anxiety. That is, a tiny amount is anti-anxiety, whereas, a higher dose will exacerbate anxiety. The same would be true in adding THC to a CBD preparation.

Dr. Russo’s comments also fit well with Dr. Reddy’s study. Her research used data from the Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program and found that THC made little difference to the results. She gave five reasons for this, firstly noting that they waited 30 days to look for changes in symptoms. By this point, many patients were probably already tolerant to THC. Dr. Reddy continued:

Second, the study cohort’s THC doses may not have reached the thresholds typically associated with THC-induced anxiety. Third, because patients commonly used products containing both THC and CBD, CBD’s negative allosteric modulation of CB1 receptors could have mitigated THC’s anxiety-related effects.

She also added that cancer could alter the response to THC. Finally, she noted that anyone sensitive to THC would likely have changed to a lower-THC product quickly.

Which Terpenes Are Useful for Anxiety?

Cannabinoids aren’t the only compounds to consider, with the aromatic terpenes also forming an important part of the mix. These chemicals give cannabis its characteristic smell, but also have biological effects in their own right.

We asked Dr. Russo which terpenes people should look out for, and he told us that, “vaporized limonene was demonstrated to reduce anxiety due to THC (Spindle et al.). Linalool similarly has prominent anti-anxiety activity.”

We covered the paper he referenced elsewhere. However, the short version is that THC made people less anxious when combined with d-limonene. It shows something that’s important to remember when shopping around: the precise combination of cannabinoids and terpenes has a huge impact on how it will affect you.

How Much CBD Do You Need?

If you look through individual studies of CBD for anxiety, you’ll probably notice that they use high doses, in the hundreds of milligrams. With CBD being priced at around a few cents per mg, this could get very expensive very quickly if you’re using it regularly. However, as Dr. Russo pointed out earlier, this is really only true for isolated CBD.

In Dr. Reddy’s study, the effective dose was anything above just 14.3 mg per day. This is much lower than in other research. We asked her about this, and she explained that:

Many patients in the Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program used mixed cannabinoid products, where CBD may act synergistically with THC and other cannabinoids and terpenes. This means relatively small amounts of CBD may have amplified effects when taken in combination with these different compounds.

In short, if you choose the right blend, you might not need that much CBD at all.

What to Look Out For…

The best CBD products for anxiety include a little THC, some CBG, terpenes like d-limonene and linalool, and a moderate-high dose of CBD.

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