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Marijuana plants grown today contain THC levels hovering around 20 percent. The bill also allows for the marketing of hemp products. Although it's not currently permitted here, legislation is pending in Illinois to allow for the cultivation and sale of hemp.
Hemp has long been grown for a variety of purposes: CBD as a favored hemp product is a more recent development. Over the past several years, as CBD started to gain a reputation for having a variety of therapeutic benefits, hemp producers began marketing and manufacturing CBD extracts.
Preliminary research and anecdotal evidence suggests CBD may carry valuable anti-inflammatory, antiseizure, and pain-relief properties, and may also be effective in treating substance abuse disorders, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The legal picture became infinitely more complicated once states like Illinois began piloting medical marijuana programs and other states, including California, Colorado, and Washington, legalized recreational weed.
While marijuana remains a federally scheduled drug at the national level, its legal status actually depends on where you live. Revolution, like all state-licensed medical marijuana cultivators in Illinois, has been subjected to strict scrutiny since the state's Medical Cannabis Pilot Program took effect in Access to its products is restricted to medical marijuana cardholders, and access to those so-called "green cards" has been hard to come by—just about 16, state residents have obtained them since the launch of the program.
Meanwhile, retailers sell CBD products sourced from hemp to the general public with little fanfare and no state or federal oversight—with mixed benefit to the public.
CBD Kratom owner David Palatnik operates out of two locations—his first shop in Bucktown and a recently opened second location in Andersonville. Palatnik says he first tried CBD as a sleep aid about two years ago after purchasing the extract from a smoke shop. He was inspired to open to his shop because he believed "CBD should not be sold in a smoke shop, but in a nicer shop that offers a lot more information about what CBD is and a lot more variety. Warrender, who suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition that causes widespread muscle pain, says he tried CBD about a year ago and found it significantly relieved his discomfort.
The extract can be ingested as a tincture under the tongue or as a vaporizer liquid. But because sales of CBD in vape shops fall outside the bounds of the state's medical marijuana program, these products are unregulated.
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You might buy something labeled CBD, but "you might not be taking anything at all—you might be taking pure glycerin and flavor," Shroyer says. Of these, 18 tested positive for the presence of at least one cannabinoid compound.
But three contained less than 0. Palatnik says he purchases all of his CBD products prepackaged from companies based in states where hemp cultivation is legal, tries them himself before he sells them in his shop, and receives lab results from the companies he buys them from detailing each product's chemical composition. Warrender says his company sources "pure isolate"—a crystallized form of CBD—from "the largest hemp manufacturer in the world in Colorado" and then mixes the isolate with a base of vegetable glycerin to create his CBD liquids. But Warrender declined to provide the name of the Colorado company he works with.
He also acknowledges that the industry is "completely unregulated" and says he was compelled to get into the CBD business because other companies didn't include information about dosing or concentration levels on product packaging. In the absence of a regulatory system, consumers are reliant on company claims and business owners like Palatnik and Warrender to gain any information about the CBD product they're buying. A push for regulations to ensure consumers are actually getting what's advertised on the packaging would be a worthy cause.
But given CBD's potential medical benefits and nonpsychoactive effect, there's little evidence to justify making it illegal or even just extremely hard to obtain. Tell that to the DEA.
Last December the agency created a new drug classification for marijuana extracts that seemed to indicate that CBD, no matter its source, would be considered a Schedule I drug—in the same category as heroin—despite the provisions carved out for hemp production in the farm bill and despite the nascent evidence of CBD's potential medical benefits. Barbara Carreno, a spokesperson for the agency, says the new classification was created as a "housekeeping" measure to better keep track of studies specifically around marijuana extracts.
She says the agency has always and continues to view marijuana extracts as Schedule I substances, those "with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Shopping local is directly related not only because it means less driving thereby reducing harmful exhaust emissions but more money spent locally stays within the community supporting the sustainability of our local economy. Posted in Community , Local News. Tagged Ambassadors , beach , businesses , Community , Eco friendly , expo , green , hermosa beach , local , Manhattan Beach , Redondo Beach , sage , Southbay , Sponsors.
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