Here’s what you’re thinking: Isn’t smoking to get high hemp’s most modern use? Not even close! In fact, according to Phytanna, a producer of hemp-based topical oil, hemp is a far cry from marijuana, its psychoactive, THC bearing cousin. For centuries in the United States and around the world, hemp has been used to create a variety of useful goods such as rope, clothing ... Read More
Purified CBD Oil Shows Promise in Controlling Seizures
A recent study focusing on cannabis treatments for epilepsy shows that a chemical compound made from cannabis has the potential of reducing the number of seizures in children and young adults. Thirty-seven percent of study participants treated with a 99 percent CBD oil—in combination with their established treatment—saw a 50 percent reduction in seizures over a 12-week ... Read More
The Tricky Business of Hemp and CBD
Ever since the cannabinoid, CBD, was plucked out of obscurity for its life-changing ability to stop seizures, the cannabis world hasn’t been the same. Neither has the hemp world. Hemp contains meager amounts of CBD, though that hasn’t stopped money hungry entrepreneurs from eking out what little there is of it in industrial hemp to sell as CBD extracts. That might be fine ... Read More
