CBD is great. It’s a cannabinoid that doesn’t get you high, and can actually level off or reduce THC’s effects when the two are introduced together—but CBD has all sorts of awesome benefits in treating epilepsy, pain, nausea, inflammation, insomnia, and even cancer. I’m pro-CBD.
I have yet to meet a single CBD prohibitionist, waving their “CBDon’t!” signs at rallies or warning against the violent multinational organized hemp cartels that threaten our children. (Not saying they don’t exist. Times is cray-cray, y’all.)
But even rabidly anti-cannabis states such as Georgia and Alabama now allow CBD for specific ailments. No Georgia politician wants to appear to be pro-pediatric-seizure, and no Alabama politician can oppose the issue while molesting children. (Look, I got people back there, okay? But just… no.) Those states now allow CBD products, provided they have no more than 3 percent THC relative to CBD—meaning a product with 10 milligrams of CBD can have no more than .3 milligrams of THC.
My cat has a higher THC content than that.
This isn’t an issue, except that CBD is an “entourage” or “ensemble” cannabinoid that, for some uses, works better when introduced with higher ratios of THC. So there is a camp that believes the best CBD is taken from the buds and leaves of a cannabis plant.
But CBD is also found in hemp and, as hemp has a naturally low THC content, hemp-derived CBD is increasingly available in products so ubiquitous that they show up in sponsored ads on Facebook.
Critics decry the hemp-derived form of CBD to be inferior to cannabis-plant-extracted CBD. Hemp fans respond that CBD with miniscule amounts of THC is legal to ship across states lines. And if you’re hoping the feds can help sort out what’s best, good luck.
But what about CBD that’s produced without cannabis or hemp plants? What then, well-educated trousers? And is that even a thing, or am I just super high again?
