Notably, autophagy is required to maintain muscle mass (Masiero et al., 2009) and in a murine model of muscular dystrophy, intraperitoneal injection of CBD restored autophagy as evidenced by an increase in the ratio of LC3‐II to LC3‐I (Iannotti et al., 2019), often used as a marker of autophagic activity (Terman et al., 2007), as well as restoring mRNA transcript levels of the autophagy genes beclin‐1, Atg4, Atg12 and Ulk1. The gene discussed is BECN1; the disease is muscular dystrophy.