If the word cannabis still brings to mind blunts and laced brownies, girl, catch up! In 2019, there’s far more to weed than getting stuck on your couch with the munchies. In fact, today’s hottest pot products don’t even get you high. But they do claim to slay stress and anxiety, relieve headaches, ease period cramps, soothe skin, improve sleep and turbocharge your orgasms. And all with no smoke involved. Instead, you can simply rub on a body oil or moisturiser, or sip a spiked tea.
So what’s the secret ingredient? Cannabidiol, or CBD, the second most abundant chemical found in marijuana plants. Because it lacks the psychoactive properties of tetrahydrocannabinol (aka THC), CBD isn’t intoxicating. Research shows that it might, however, boost your mental and physical wellbeing, says researcher Marcel Bonn-Miller, an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. While THC activates cannabinoid receptors that alter the release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain, CBD seems to increase levels of your body’s natural cannabinoid-like compounds, which may help relieve anxiety, regulate chronic pain and reduce inflammation.
As a result CBD is now being touted as a potential treatment for everything from puffy skin to epilepsy. Maybe that’s why more and more people are ‘using’. In March 2018, Google shopping searches for CBD oil reached an all-time high, and experts estimate that the new CBD industry could be worth a massive R30-billion by 2020.
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