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. Here, ATG12 is linked to muscular dystrophy.