Benefits Of CBD
What Is CBD?
What to try CBD, but unsure what it is?
CBD, or cannabidiol, is the second most prevalent active ingredient in cannabis (marijuana). While CBD is an essential component of medical marijuana, it is derived directly from the hemp plant, a cousin of marijuana, or manufactured in a laboratory. One of hundreds of components in marijuana, CBD is not psychoactive, causing NO High effect.
What Are The Benefits Of CBD?
Now that we know that CBD is NOT psychoactive, so it will not give you a high affect like its sibling THC. Which means you can take CBD before or during work, varsity or at the start or end of your day. Now, lets get into a few of the health benefits associated with CBD.
Research has shown that CBD has many health benefits, which include the following:
- Anxiety: CBD can reduce anxiety. Providing you with a calming effect with NO High.
- Insomnia: Studies show that CBD helps with both falling asleep and staying asleep.
- Chronic pain: CBD helps control pain. CBD can help lower pain and inflammation due to arthritis when ingested or applied to skin. Other research identifies how CBD may inhibit inflammatory and neuropathic pain, which are difficult treat.
- Addiction: CBD can help lower cravings for tobacco and heroin under certain conditions, according to some research in humans. CBD also helps lessen cravings for alcohol, cannabis, opiates, and stimulants.
CBD has also shown strong scientific evidence for its effectiveness in treating some of the cruelest childhood epilepsy syndromes, such as Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which typically don’t respond to antiseizure medications. In numerous studies, CBD was able to reduce the number of seizures, and, in some cases, stop them altogether. Epidiolex, which contains CBD, is the first cannabis-derived medicine approved by the FDA for these conditions.
