Cannabidiol (CBD)
Cannabidiol (CBD) — what we know and what we don’t
Cannabidiol (CBD) has been recently covered in the media, and you may have even seen it as an add-in booster to your post-workout smoothie or morning coffee. What exactly is CBD? Why is it suddenly so popular? How is cannabidiol different from marijuana? CBD stands for cannabidiol. It is the second most prevalent of the active ingredients of cannabis (marijuana).
Read more: Harvard Health Publishing
CBD 101: Get Started Taking CBD with This Beginner’s Guide
As a newbie, you’ve likely thought of CBD as the same thing as medical cannabis, which is now legal in 33 U.S. states. True, CBD has the same therapeutic effects, but that’s because it’s a derivative of the plant. Medical cannabis users ingest (through various ways, like smoking) the plant itself. CBD, as mentioned above, stands for cannabidiol. It’s one of the 420 known components of the cannabis plant. To be more specific, it’s one of the 60+ cannabinoids found in cannabis.
Read more: CBD Reviewed
Top 5 Ways to Identify High Quality CBD Oil
CBD oil is an amazing supplement, but now it’s also a growing industry and that means there are unscrupulous scam-artists trying to rip off consumers, too. Are there signs of quality CBD oil that you can use to determine if it’s reliable or snake oil? (…) We conducted some research to help you identify high-quality CBD from its low quality counterparts when selecting CBD oil for sale online.
Read more: Ministry of Hemp Blog
CBD vs THC
What’s The Real Difference Between CBD & THC? Here Are All Your Cannabinoid Questions, Answered
There’s no doubt about it: Cannabis is going mainstream. Everywhere you look there’s a new CBD beauty or self-care product on the market, a CBD-based drug was just approved by the FDA to treat rare seizure disorders, and more and more states are voting in favor of recreational and/or medical marijuana. People are curious about the compounds (called cannabinoids) found in this plant—which has been used for its medicinal purposes for centuries—and how they might benefit their health.
Read more: Mind Body Green
CBD and Acne
Cannabidiol exerts sebostatic and antiinflammatory effects on human sebocytes.
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) regulates multiple physiological processes, including cutaneous cell growth and differentiation. Here, we explored the effects of the major nonpsychotropic phytocannabinoid of Cannabis sativa, (-)-cannabidiol (CBD), on human sebaceous gland function and determined that CBD behaves as a highly effective sebostatic agent.
Read more: US National Library of Medicine
