Popular discount website Groupon is now offering a coupon for medical marijuana in Florida—and it’s on sale! Five dispensaries across the state are allowed to sell medical marijuana in the form of CBD oil. One CBD oil offered is the well-known Charlotte’s Web, which is used to help ease pain and side effects for cancer patients and those with various seizure ... Read More
Former Broncos Quarterback Lobbying for CBD Oil Use in NFL
Jake Plummer, former quarterback for the Denver Broncos, is using CBD oil to help relieve the everyday pain he suffers from a decade long NFL career. He is just one of the ever-growing number of former professional athletes looking for safer ways to cope with the pain that their careers have levied on their bodies. Plummer has joined a number of NFL players (both current and ... 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