CBD 101
WHAT IS CBD (CANNABIDIOL)?
CANNABIDIOL CBD OIL IS ONE OF MORE THAN 80 KNOWN COMPONENTS FOUND IN CANNABIS.
THERE’S AN EVER INCREASING AMOUNT OF RESEARCH POINTING TO VARIOUS HEALTH BENEFITS FOUND IN CBD, ALL WHILE BEING NON-PSYCHOACTIVE. THE COMPONENT RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING USERS A “HIGH” IS TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL (THC), WHICH IS PREVALENT IN CANNABIS AND NOT IN HEMP. ACCORDING TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND STUDIES, CBD’S ARE ANTI-CONVULSIVE, SEDATIVE, ANTI-PSYCHOTIC, ANTI-NAUSEA, ANTI-INFLAMMATORY. CBD IS A POTENT ANTIOXIDANT COMPOUND WITH NEURO-PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES
WHAT IS HEMP CBD?
HEMP IS A NUTRIENT-DENSE PLANT THAT IS USED ACROSS THE WORLD FOR FOOD, FIBER, SUPPLEMENTS AND MEDICINE. HEMP FLOWERS, THE STALK AND SEEDS CONTAIN TERPENES, FLAVONOIDS, VITAMINS, CHLOROPHYLL AND AMINO ACIDS AND ITS ODOROUS FLOWERS ALSO CONTAIN PHYTOCANNABINOIDS LIKE CBD. CBD, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CANNABIDIOL, IS ONE OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN PHYTOCANNABINOIDS FOUND IN THE HEMP PLANT.
WHAT IS WHOLE PLANT HEMP CBD?
ALSO KNOWN AS FULL SPECTRUM, WHOLE PLANT HEMP CBD IS MADE FROM MAKING A PULP FROM HEMP FLOWERS EXTRACTING ALL THE CANNABINOIDS, TERPENES, BIOFLAVONOIDS AND NUTRIENT DENSE MOLECULES.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FULL SPECTRUM, BROAD SPECTRUM & ISOLATE CBD?
FULL-SPECTRUM CBD CONTAINS ALL PHYTOCHEMICALS NATURALLY FOUND IN THE PLANT, INCLUDING CBD, TRACE CANNABINOIDS, AND TERPENES (ESSENTIAL OILS).
BROAD-SPECTRUM CBD CONTAINS CANNABIDIOL AND ALL THE OTHER COMPOUNDS WITHIN THE PLANT. IT DOES NOT CONTAIN THE THC, WHICH HAS BEEN ISOLATED AND COMPLETELY REMOVED AFTER THE INITIAL EXTRACTION. BROAD-SPECTRUM CBD EXTRACTS CONTAIN MULTIPLE CANNABINOIDS.
CBD ISOLATE IS MADE BY EXTRACTING AND REFINING THE CBD FROM THE PLANT MATERIAL, ISOLATING THE CBD FROM ALL THE OTHER PLANT MOLECULES. THERE IS NO ENTOURAGE EFFECT OR SYNERGY WITH ISOLATES.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CBD HEMP OIL AND HEMP SEED OIL?
CBD HEMP OIL IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS CBD OIL. CBD OIL IS EXTRACTED FROM THE WHOLE PLANT (THE LEAVES, FLOWERS, STEMS, AND STALKS OF THE PLANT) AND CONTAINS CANNABINOIDS AND OTHER COMPOUNDS.
HEMP SEED OIL IS PRESSED FROM THE SEEDS OF THE PLANT, AND CONTAINS NO CBD. INSTEAD THE HEMP SEEDS ARE RICH IN ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS (EFAS). HEMP SEED OIL HAS BEEN ON THE MARKET FOR DECADES AS A FOOD AND DIETARY SUPPLEMENT AND IS USED IN BEAUTY AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS.
HEMP SEED OIL HAS DIFFERENT HEALING PROPERTIES AND BENEFITS THAN HEMP OIL/CBD OIL. THIS IS WHY BOTANIKA LIFE USES BOTH. THE HEMP SEED OIL ACTS AS ‘CARRIER’ MOLECULES ASSISTING THE CBD MOLECULES IN THE CBD HEMP OIL TO BE TRANSPORTED DEEPER INTO THE SKIN.
WHAT IS THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM?
THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM (ECS) IS CONSIDERED THE MASTER REGULATORY SYSTEM OF THE BODY. IT HELPS MAINTAIN HOMEOSTASIS (AKA BALANCE) IN OUR BODIES BY COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND HELPING OTHER SYSTEMS IN THE BODY STAY HEALTHY.
THE HUMAN BODY PRODUCES COMPOUNDS CALLED ENDOCANNABINOIDS THAT BIND TO ENDOCANNABINOID RECEPTORS TO SUPPORT HOMEOSTASIS. ENDOCANNABINOIDS AND THEIR RECEPTORS ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT THE BODY: IN THE BRAIN, ORGANS, CONNECTIVE TISSUES, GLANDS AND IMMUNE CELLS. CONSIDERED “A BRIDGE BETWEEN BODY AND MIND,” ENDOCANNABINOIDS HELP SUPPORT AND PROTECT OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM, NERVOUS SYSTEM AND VIRTUALLY ALL ORGANS IN THE BODY. THE “CLASSIC” CB1 AND CB2 ENDOCANNABINOID RECEPTORS ARE PRESENT IN PRACTICALLY ALL CELL TYPES OF THE SKIN.
WHO CAN TAKE CBD?
THERE IS NO RESTRICTION ON WHO CAN TAKE THIS UNLESS THERE ARE OTHER CONCERNS, MEDICATIONS OR OTHER HEALTH RELATED REASONS. WE ALWAYS RECOMMEND YOU CONSULT WITH A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 ARE RECOMMENDED NOT TO TAKE CBD.
IS CBD LEGAL?
YES IT IS LEGAL TO SELL AND SHIP CBD PRODUCTS TO ALL 50 STATES.
IN MARCH, 2017, THE DEA ACKNOWLEDGED THAT CBD SOURCED FROM INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATED LAWFULLY PURSUANT TO THE INDUSTRIAL HEMP LAWS ENACTED UNDER THE 2014 US FARM BILL IS LEGAL. THIS IS BECAUSE “INDUSTRIAL HEMP” IS ITSELF SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED FROM THE CSA’S DEFINITION OF MARIJUANA IN SECTION 7606 OF THE FARM BILL. SINCE INDUSTRIAL HEMP IS EXCLUDED FROM THE DEFINITION OF THE CSA, AND A “PRODUCT CONSIST[ING] SOLELY OF PARTS OF THE CANNABIS PLANT EXCLUDED FROM THE CSA DEFINITION OF MARIJUANA” IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE NEW DRUG CODE, THEN SUCH PRODUCT (IN OUR CASE, CBD) IS ALSO EXCLUDED FROM THE DEFINITION OF MARIJUANA UNDER THE CSA AND IS THUS LEGAL.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CBD AND THC?
CHEMICALLY THEY ARE BOTH CANNABINOID COMPOUNDS, WHICH MAKES THEIR MOLECULES LOOK SIMILAR BUT ARE VERY DIFFERENT. THERE ARE OVER 100+ KNOWN CANNABINOIDS. THC AND CBD ARE THE TWO MOST COMMON, AND THEREFORE THE MOST STUDIED. THC IS A PSYCHOACTIVE COMPOUND, WHEREAS CBD IS NON-PSYCHOACTIVE.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEMP AND CANNABIS?
HEMP AND CANNABIS ARE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF THE CANNABIS GENUS OF PLANTS, BRED FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES. INDUSTRIAL HEMP IS EXCLUSIVELY PRODUCED BY CANNABIS SATIVA, WHILE CANNABIS CAN REFER TO THE SUB-GENUSES OF CANNABIS SATIVA, CANNABIS INDICA, OR CANNABIS RUDERALIS. INDUSTRIAL HEMP IS GROWN TO BE FIBROUS AND DURABLE, WITH VERY LONG STALKS AND AS FEW FLOWERING BUDS AS POSSIBLE. MARIJUANA STRAINS OF CANNABIS ARE TYPICALLY SMALLER, FLIMSIER AND HAVE AS MANY FLOWERING BUDS AS THEIR BREEDING CAN ALLOW. CANNABIS IS BRED WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE OF MAXIMIZING THE CONCENTRATION OF THC, WHILE INDUSTRIAL HEMP NATURALLY HAS TRACE AMOUNTS OF THC AND FAIRLY HIGH AMOUNTS OF CBD. HEMP’S CHEMICAL PROFILE MEANS THAT YOU CAN’T GET ‘HIGH’ FROM IT AND IT IS USED TO CREATE MEDICINAL REMEDIES, FOOD AND OIL, AS WELL AS OTHER PRODUCTS INCLUDING ROPE, BRICKS, NATURAL POLYMERS, FIBER, CLOTHES AND MANY MORE. CANNABIS IS USED RECREATIONALLY AND MEDICINALLY ONLY.
WHERE DOES OUR CBD OIL COME FROM?
OUR HEMP IS GROWN AND HARVESTED ORGANICALLY ON HEMP FARMS IN THE USA.
WILL I FAIL A DRUG TEST IF I TAKE CBD?
THE HEMP OIL IN OUR PRODUCT CONTAINS CBD WHICH IS A LEGAL CANNABINOID FROM HEMP. IT CONTAINS MINUSCULE AMOUNTS (PARTS PER BILLION) OF THC THAT COULD SHOW UP IN A DRUG SCREEN. BOTANIKA LIFE CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL OR WILL NOT PASS A DRUG SCREEN DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF VARIABLES. OUR PRODUCTS CONTAIN LESS THAN .3% THC. DRUG SCREENS VARY AND SOME CAN BE MORE SENSITIVE THAN OTHERS. IF YOU HAVE TO TAKE A DRUG TEST, IT IS BEST TO NOT USE OUR PRODUCT.
ARE BOTANIKA LIFE CBD PRODUCTS SAFE?
OUR PRODUCTS HAVE ALL BEEN TESTED BY A THIRD-PARTY LAB FOR PURITY, POTENCY, HEAVY METALS, MICROBIAL, AND SOLVENTS. WE WILL NEVER PUT A PRODUCT ON OUR WEBSITE THAT WE BELIEVE COULD BE HARMFUL OR UNSAFE.