Today I went to a seminar lecture about Hemp CBD oil it, well the first part was suppose to be the lecture part, the second part a sales pitch trying to get you to buy into their company. MLM companies, make money off of these spiels and if you get in on the ground early enough in any MLM company you can be one of the few that makes a good living off of it. I am sitting in this lecture, most likely one of the most educated on all types of CBD oils in the room. Thinking as I am listening to the lecture why stretch the truth you don't need to?
I have to go back 30 years to when I was 9 years old to fully tell this story. When I was 9 I had an idea I might become a researcher to find a cure for seizures, as my mother suffers from them. I love to read and would spend all my free time I could in the libraries. I grew up in a college town and around this age (I was a free range kid) I would take the bus to Ball State University and pour through their medical research. About 3 or 4 weeks into going through the research available there, I discovered an article about marijuana and Seizures and the success of treatment from small studies that had been done. This was in 1987 and the study was published before I was born in 1977. I was born the following year in 1978.
This started my obsession about learning more about this plant, that I was being taught in school was a bad thing. Just Say No to Drug campaigns were going on back then, and Marijuana was the worse or them all. But here at the Universities Library I was learning in medical journals that what I was learning in school was a lie. It left me confused, but hopeful that more studies would be done and this medicine could be given to my mother.
As I grew up and my research grew I discovered why the cannabis plant became illegal, learned that government studies showed in 1974 that cannabis cures cancer and the United States government has suppressed the information. I learned the difference between Hemp and Marijuana. I learned how till prohibition humans ate the cannabis plant in their diets, humans use to consume it as a veggie, not only as a medicine.
So anyways I know a lot about marijuana and want to see this wonderful plant fully legalized. This is my rub with what I heard today. Most of what I heard was exaggerated claims. They were claiming the Hemp CBD oil would do stuff it can't do without proper pollination (and because 99% of Hemp Crops are pollinated by their own crop, the CBD content is too low to have healing benefits) But most of the claims on the studies are studies on Hemp CBD's they presented was really studies on it cousin Marijuana CBD or better known as Cannabis CBD oil (even though technically both are a Cannabis CBD oil)
There are good health benefits from the Hemp CBD so I don't think anyone needs to stretch the truth on what it does, and honest conversations needs to happen about the difference when these companies are trying to sell their product. I left half way through. I don't lie to sell products, I will only tell the truth about them. It has served me well. I have always been in some type of sales work for the most part all my adult working life. If you need to stretch the truth to sell something, you have to ask yourself why? Maybe some of these people don't realize the difference, maybe they just know what their company has taught them.
But I know the truth. This doctor flat out lied at one point (he didn't want it online because he know it is a lie IMO), and told people not to post what he said online, but he claimed that Hemp CBD cures cancer and can stop seizures, and if it was working for either one wide scale there wouldn't be a push for legalizing Marijuana. Because there is proof that marijuana can cure certain types of cancer and works to decrease and stop seizures. I am not saying Hemp CBD can't help slow seizures down, but to stop them, if it worked we wouldn't have Marijuana refugees living in Colorado now. ( I know a family that tried Hemp CBD before relocating to CO for Marijuana CBD, Charlotte's Web in fact, and their daughter has only had 3 seizures since being on it, they have been there now for 2 years I think)
Hemp CBD can help with inflammation, which can help with pain, it also is high in B12 and has great antioxidants which is great for the skin the largest organ. But if you are looking for a cure with Hemp CBD, you are looking at the wrong cousin, you want marijuana CBD oil. And even then you want to do your research because different processes target different areas of the body. If you are going to use CBD do your own research, and don't blindly believe someone because they sell the product.
There are a lot of differences between these two plants, though they are related they look different and have a different make up entirely. Hemp is low in CBDs and Marijuana has higher levels and also had THC, which combine together to work as medicine it is why Marijuana is a super plant. Meaning it is food and medicine all in one. And though the seeds are edible on the Hemp plant, the rest of the plant doesn't taste good, while the marijuana plant is tasty.
Anyways this is my thoughts on what I saw today. I wish companies didn't feel the need to stretch the truth.
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I didn't know there were different types of CBD, just thought the content was much lower in hemp.
Thanks for the info, now I've got some new stuff to research
yep there is and this promoting Hemp CBD like it is something it isn't is taking advantage of people that are desperate for something that works.
though it does have health benefits don't get me wrong but it is being spouted off as it cousin which it isn't
To people that might not have enough time left to find out on there own, to make things worst
Much Yunks have been given!
Great blog, I too am very much into the medical
Side of cannabis.
I have done 100's of hours of research due to my mothers sickness and her cancers.
So many people are fooled into purchasing CBD oil from hemp for the wrong reasons.
I've tried my best to do my due diligence as well and inform those I know about the differences and benefits to each type of oils and what types of CBD are for what symptoms.
Major Up-Yunks to you my friend!
You would have been sitting through that like I was then. My cousin works for the company that is the only reason I didn't speak out and call the doctor out that was making such claims.
Very informative post! In the UK a lot of site claim HEMP has curing benifits, I did not trust this but now has some facts, thanks. A friend of the family recently had cancer an thankfully not now due to being pummped full of radiation. I suggest cannabis oil so many times but to deaf ears. Sad that this research is so suppressed. I feel people will soon wake up to the lies. Recently they were trial cannabis pills in France and a guy died (so they say) another attempt to stop its legalisation I feel!
I suggest looking up the Rick Simpson's method for cancer treatments. (youtube is great)
Yes read a lot of his stuff amazing guy :)
Awesome post thanks!!
Amazing Article. CBD and marijuana have always been a point of confusion for me, thanks. And if you want to, you can take a look in my article about weed in general. I discuss the difference between indicas and sativas and much more! https://steemit.com/marijuana/@mateushism/everything-you-need-to-know-about-marijuana
Great!!!
Amazing story. I also started studying cannabis as a child (9 or 10). Read in the Encyclopedia that it can help Asthma which i was hospitalized for as a child.
Now I am putting together a team to research opioid and other addictions and how different strains of Cannabis has help.
I don't believe there are 2 types of CBD. It is all the same plant. Actually Hemp is mainly not good because the THC was bred out of it to comply with UN standards. CBD and THC work together. Also of course hemp strains were bred to produce hemp and seeds. not buds. Hemp has very little Cannabinoids so its going to have far more contaminants after extraction. I use both Charlottes web hybrid and ACDC and have been breeding for different profiles. There are over 100 Cannabinoids which work together!!! Plant the seed!
I may have not used the correct words but just like any puzzle you take out a piece and it doesn't show the whole picture and that is what I mean by that, with the THC being bred out it has changed it, because it CBD oil does not work right without that THC in the picture.
Is this what you're referring to in the article about Hemp CBD not being cross pollinated? That quirked my curiosity!
Thanks for the informative article! Lately I've also been hearing about precursor supplements (in tincture form) THCV and CBG are you familiar with these at all? I need to do some research!
Hello, I am a weed newbie. I have a question: What can I use hemp (0,5% THC) for?
It can help with inflammation and is great for the skin but for Cannabis to work properly for healing you need a higher THC content.
So it would act like a painkiller, right?
reducing inflammation can help control pain, but the Marijuana CBD oil will work better, if you take a piece of the puzzle away from the plant it doesn't work as well. Everyone is different so what didn't work for me might work for you. Hemp CBD doesn't work for to reduce pain. It's cousin does work though.
Alright, thank you very much, just my last question: I have only these hemp seeds with only 0,5% THC, what can I use them for except the skin, some reciepe? Thanks in advance, and please forgive me my newbiness! Cheers!
granola bars would be a great recipe to use hemp seeds in