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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

CBD Is The Best Anti-Inflammatory, Anti-Cancer, Anti-Anxiety Superfood You're Not Eating

More people in the wellness world are turning to CBD for its powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-anxiety effects, but just as many are confused about the nature of the compound. The basics are simple enough: CBD is derived from hemp and marijuana plants, but unlike THC, it's completely non-psychoactive (meaning it won't make you high). Years ago, the therapeutic properties of CBD were brought to light when a little girl, Charlotte, went from having hundreds of seizures a week to virtually none after dosing with the substance. It's since gained a cult following, with thousands of parents taking medical tourism trips to Colorado to experiment with the plant's healing powers.

Recently, though, CBD has exploded onto the scene, transcending the world of the seriously ill to the wider sphere of people who just want to feel better. While it's become almost commonplace, appearing in elixirs at trendy restaurants, in salad dressings, and in artisanal chocolates, questions about the product still abound. Is it actually legal? What healing properties does it actually have? Is it safe for anyone to take? Is it possible to overdose on it? We reached out to Joel Stanley, the CEO of CW Hemp, and Heather Jackson, the CEO of cannabinoid research nonprofit Realm of Caring, to separate myth from fact.

How is CBD different from marijuana?

HJ: Marijuana is a slur or slang term referring to a cannabis plant containing high levels of THC. Cannabis with less than 0.3% THC is legally considered hemp. In addition to THC, the cannabis plant can produce over 100 unique chemicals called cannabinoids, one of which is CBD. While marijuana causes intoxication, CBD by itself does not. Any type of cannabis, whether high-THC or low-THC, can be bred to produce high levels of CBD.

Read More: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/what-are-the-effects-of-cbd

Related Article: 9 ways to use CBD products to improve your life

As Garden City shop waits for permit to sell CBD oil, other cities have allowed sales for months

Welcomed Science has sought for more than a year to get Garden City’s permission to sell products derived from hemp plants, a cousin of the marijuana plant that’s bred to have almost none of the chemical that makes people high.

The proposed store, located at 5155 N. Glenwood St. in the same complex as Revolution Concert House, would offer a variety of cannabidiol (CBD) oils and related products.

Garden City hasn’t issued permits for the business. Mayor John Evans and City Attorney Charles Wadams want to make sure the shop’s goods are, in fact, free of illegal chemicals. So, they say, they have personally overseen Welcomed Science’s application instead of leaving it to the city’s Development Services Department.

“We are not going to allow the sale of products that are not legal,” Evans said.

That’s left cities determining on their own, case by case, how to regulate the shops — creating winners and losers depending on each city’s level of concern.

Is it legal?

The type of CBD the Idaho stores say they source is a chemical compound that comes from hemp plants. Those are grown for many purposes, including textile manufacturing.

Hemp is a variety of cannabis. Under federal law, hemp plants or seeds are legal in certain circumstances if they contain no more than 0.3 percent THC, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Marijuana plants are also in the cannabis genus, but they are bred and cultivated to maximize THC content, which can be as high as 35 percent. Marijuana is illegal under federal law, and while more than half of states now allow some sort of medical or recreational use, Idaho is not among those.

Repeated efforts by the Statesman this past week to contact Welcomed Science’s owners and attorney were unsuccessful. But in previous interviews, the owners said the CBD in their products comes from the mature stalks of hemp plants instead of the buds and leaves, where THC content is much higher.

[“Our goal is to help bring an effective option to those who are suffering.” Read a 2017 interview with Welcomed Science.]

Bordeaux said the same, and that all THC is removed from his products in a process that isolates CBD.

The Statesman wasn’t able to reach certain Sandpoint officials to talk about Global CBD. But Bordeaux said he didn’t have any problems working with the city, and suggested public officials in the Boise area have shown more caution about CBD products than in the rest of the state.

Garden City wants to know whether Welcomed Science’s products were made with resin from any part of the cannabis plant. Idaho law makes cannabis resin illegal but exempts mature stalks from its definition of “marijuana” — as long as they’re THC-free. So to be legal, CBD oil must meet two criteria: It must contain absolutely no THC and come from mature stalks, according to an informal opinion that Deputy Idaho Attorney General John McKinney provided Elisha Figueroa, administrator of the Idaho Office of Drug Policy, in 2015.

Some experts have told the city that CBD oil is made from resin — the sap of the plant — and that it’s impossible to get all THC out of the product, Mayor Evans said.

That’s not always true, according to Aaron Stancik, a chemist for Medicine Creek Analytics, a Seattle-area cannabis testing lab.

“CBD products can be produced that don’t contain THC,” Stancik wrote in a letter that Welcomed Science provided to Garden City. “There are chemical processes that yield CBD without forming an extracted resin intermediate. CBD can be isolated from the mature stalks of the cannabis plant without utilizing the extracted resin.”

Garden City has asked Welcomed Science for verification that Stancik, whose company bio calls him the “ambassador of cannabis science,” qualifies as an expert witness.

Additionally, Welcomed Science sent a sample of its CBD oil to a lab. As of March 14, the lab had not returned the results, Wadams told the Statesman.

Does it really work?

Bordeaux is careful not to say CBD “treats, cures or prevents” any diseases. That would be against U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules, he said. The agency has not approved CBD for use “in any drug product for any indication,” according to a notice last fall about companies making unsubstantiated CBD claims.

But Bordeaux can — and does — say he’s seen people’s conditions improve after taking CBD. His own 4-year-old son started having seizures at 3, he said, but they’ve stopped since Bordeaux started giving the child CBD oil. An experimental CBD program in Idaho has seen good initial results in reducing the number of seizures among dozens of children, a Department of Health and Welfare official told lawmakers in January.

Rather than make people high, Bordeaux said, CBD can actually help them overcome drug addictions by bringing them down and relieving withdrawal symptoms.

Former Packers defensive end Cullen Jenkins now turns to CBD oil for pain treatment

The pain was so bad, Cullen Jenkins got to the point where he had to rely on two Vicodin just to get through an NFL game.

The former Green Bay Packers defensive lineman started to feel the aches and strains of football during his final season at Central Michigan, even before his rookie debut in the NFL in 2003. But by the end of his 13-year professional career, pain was a constant companion, from his torn pectoral that had to be drained of excess fluid to his injured ankle and battered quadriceps.

When the 37-year-old retired in 2016 after playing with the Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants and Washington Redskins, he was regularly using opiates to dull the pain and drinking alcohol to numb the senses. Sleep was elusive.

Jenkins, who came back from a calf injury to help push the Packers to a Super Bowl XLV victory, fell into a deep depression, living with the side effects and hangovers of strong painkillers and alcohol.

“I’m not trying to say a sympathy story,” Jenkins said. “Or say it was terrible. When you play football, you know the risk that comes with it. If I could do it again? I would do it again.

“For me, it’s finding ways to deal with it post-career. With football they have all the programs for continuing education, job things. But if you’re in a lot of pain, you’re kind of just cut off.”

So Jenkins has recently turned to a controversial supplement instead: Cannabidiol, better known as CBD oil.

The chemical, extracted from a cannibals sativa plant, is known to have numerous benefits in the form of managing chronic pain, promoting sleep and thereby reducing depression and anxiety.

Jenkins, who now lives in New Jersey, is in Los Angeles this week promoting the CBD oil company he is working with, Fresh Farms CBD, of which he also has become an investor. He talked about his new method of treating his pain in a phone interview with the Journal Sentinel on Thursday.

Playing for the Giants

Jenkins was playing for the New York Giants (2013-’15) when he relied on Vicodin regularly. He would take a full pill right before pregame, then he would take a half of a pill right before kickoff and the other half at halftime. He was a warrior and it took a lot to pull him off the field.

HempAmericana Announces Purchase of Next Generation CBD Purification System

NEW YORK, March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via OTC PR WIRE-- HempAmericana, Inc. (OTC:HMPQ) (“HempAmericana” or the “Company”) is proud to announce the Company’s purchase of a Gilson CPC 1000 centrifugal partition chromatography separator system with a PLC 2500 HPLC+UV Detector – a next-generation processing system capable of producing 99% pure CBD Oil concentrate in scalable quantities widely viewed as a market-leading technology for maximizing the purity and potency of extracted CBD Oil. The Company has already ordered and fully paid for this equipment, which is set to ship in coming days and expected to arrive before the end of the month.

HempAmericana CEO, Salvador Rosillo, commented, “We are fully committed to delivering the highest quality product in every respect. Too many producers treat CBD Oil as a commodity. The truth is: there is a huge spectrum in terms of quality. CBD Oil varies wildly by both potency and purity. We are setting up our Augusta facility from the ground up to be the market leaders in capacity, potency, and purity. And the new Gilson CPC system is a major step toward that objective.”

According to research, centrifugal partition chromatography (the process delivered by the Company’s new CPC 1000 system) can process 5g of crude extract of Cannabis sativaflowers, separating CBD and THC with high precision and filtering out pesticides and impurities, to produce 205 mg of exceptional CBD Oil with a purity score over 99% (as shown by high performance liquid chromatography analysis).

The precise system purchased by the Company is capable of producing between 3.5 and 7.2 kg per day of >99% pure CBD Oil. The system has numerous advantages that should give HempAmericana a market-leading edge, including:

High injection capacity
No need for pre-treatment prior to injection
No denaturation of fragile molecules
No risk of a blocked or contaminated column

Management also notes that the CPC methodology is also more scalable at a faster flow-rate and with less sample loss than typical first-generation “flash and prep HPLC” purification systems.

Green Gorilla Adds 7500mg Pure CBD Oil Supplement to Hemp & Olive Line of CBD Products

LOS ANGELES, April 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Gorilla™, a leading manufacturer and brand of cannabidiol (CBD) products, has added a high-dosage 7500mg CBD supplement to its flagship Hemp & Olive™ line of pure CBD oils.

The new 7500mg CBD oil is available in 2fl oz. (60ml) bottles and is made with 99%+ pure CBD extract sourced from non-GMO organically grown hemp and craft-blended with a polyphenol and anti-oxidant-rich certified organic extra-virgin olive oil. Each pump delivers approximately 50mg of 99+ percent pure CBD oil. The bottle has a retail price of $599.99.

Green Gorilla™ also offers CBD oil in other concentrations, including 150mg ($25.99/1 oz. bottle), 600mg (2 oz. bottle, $84.99), 1500mg (2 oz. bottle, $149.99) and 3000mg (2 oz. bottle, $279.99) as well as a whole plant full spectrum CBD product (1200mg, 1 oz. bottle, $44.99) in both human and pet care.

Third-party lab tests of Green Gorilla™ CBD products are available at ILoveGreenGorilla.com/science.

Green Gorilla™ pure CBD products are USDA NOP certified organic, non-GMO, vegan, paleo, gluten-free, sugar-free and THC-free. The products are formulated with organic 99+ percent pure cannabidiol along with GG BioEnhanced Complex™, Green Gorilla's proprietary blend of certified organic botanicals, herbals and essential oils to further optimize bioavailability. The products are then crafted with certified organic extra-virgin olive oil with some of the highest polyphenol counts making it an optimal courier for the CBD. The product line includes supplements, pet care, horse care and lip balms.

Green Gorilla™ is an international brand in the hemp and cannabis industries and a leading manufacturer of cannabidiol (CBD) organic supplements, topical, pet and horse care products using GG BioEnhanced Complex™ for the highest bioavailability. The company markets its supplements and topical products under the brand Hemp & Olive™ and its organic biodynamic agricultural products for the cannabis industry under the Master Grower™ brand. Green Gorilla™ was established in 2013 by founder Steven Saxton. Green Gorilla™products are sold at more than 750 retailers in the U.S. and online at ILoveGreenGorilla.com. More information is available on Twitter: @GreenGorillaInc, Instagram: @GreenGorilla, Facebook: /ILoveGreenGorilla, GreenGorilla.com.br (Brazil), GreenGorilla.ca (Canada) and Mastergrower.pro (MasterGrower).