There is a difference between Hemp CBD and Marijuana CBD

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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