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Cannabis-related deaths are practically an oxymoron, let alone something we would hear in headline news.

With all the leaps and bounds cannabis has ushered into the health and medical industry, recent reports of vaping related deaths have spawned worries of a ‘vaping epidemic’ in the US. While investigations are underway, a lot of scrutiny and debate surrounds the issue. 

The growing allegations surrounding vaping-related deaths in the States have swept up the cannabis industry and people in general. In a New York Times article, a second person from Oregon has died after reportedly becoming sick from vaping a THC product from a local dispensary.

The main issues surrounding vape related illnesses and death come from a lung infection affecting more than 200 people this summer alone. Federal authorities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are currently investigating the toxin or substance responsible for the deaths and illnesses. 

CBD intricately connects to innovation in numerous ways, and when you consume new products, you can be confident that they won’t inadvertently cause a psychoactive effect, as CBD is a non-psychoactive substance.

It should also be prudently understood, according to the CDC, 480,000 people in the United States alone die every year from cigarette-related illnesses, with another 88,000 annually from alcohol. That being said, there are plenty of healthy alternatives to vaping.

Alternatives to vaping

In 2019, cannabis consumers enjoy the widest array of possible cannabis use in history. With each alternative comes a unique set of benefits and rituals that will help lead to your new favorite way to consume cannabis.

Whether you switch to cannabis flower, dab a concentrate, or eat an edible, there's numerous alternatives to vaping available. Photo: A person rolls a joint using a rolling paper and a filter, as well as broken up cannabis flower. A cannabis grinder is on a table nearby.
Whether you switch to cannabis flower, dab a concentrate, or eat an edible, there’s numerous alternatives to vaping available.

While vaping is too new of a technology to have long studied health risks and benefits, many of these alternatives have been on the market for several years; and have an in-depth track record of how they affect your health.

Also, with delivery services being the hottest crave right now, all the best marijuana delivery services have many of these products readily available. GrassDoor, located in Los Angeles, is known for its speedy delivery and top-quality products in the marijuana delivery service industry. 

Marijuana or Hemp Flower

You could be thinking: can it get any more obvious?

Probably not, but often in today’s age we get entrenched in our daily habits. You know the saying –– stop and smell the roses? Well, stop and smell the cannabis flower. Flower by far offers cannabis buyers marijauna’s versatility more than any other alternative to vaping.

As being a flower, you are in full control of designating how you want to ingest marijuana. If you’re using a vape pen, you only have one method: bring the pen to your lips, push a button or two and inhale. Opting for cannabis flower over vaping  offers you the whole spectrum of ways to enjoy your marijuana.

You can proceed to glass, roll it in your favorite paper or use it to enjoy edibles. Cannabis is one of the most innovative industries, so we can sometimes get caught up in ‘the next big thing’ or the hottest new craze. Take a minute to get back to your roots and pay homage to where it all started. Remember, there’s nothing better than being able to see the actual product in your hand. And in 2019, Cannabis has come a long way. At GrassDoor alone they offer 40 different Hybrid and Sativa–Indica strains. Break it up, pack it in or roll it up and exhale knowing exactly where and what you’re puffing into. 

Edibles

For a lot of us, the first thing we think about when we consider consuming edibles is the patented bag of special brownies your friend brings over to your basement shin-dig. Now, edibles have reached a whole new zenith in the cannabis market. It really becomes a journey for your tastebuds and everything that comes with altering your state of consciousness.

Before, you would eat a cookie hoping you didn’t (or did, depending on who you are) get an uneven dosage. But now, milligrams are measured distinctly and to the T. Not to mention there exists an almost infinite array of edibles from Tic-Tacs to gummies to lemonade pouches and cannabis-infused butter. Edibles also provide a great option for discreetly consuming cannabis or for individuals who generally dislike smoking.

Edibles as an alternative to vaping provide you with a deeply physical and robust cannabis experience that generally lasts much longer than any vaporizing pen. Edibles also offer you a fun and personal marijuana experience, pairing your favorite flavors and snacks with your favorite strains of cannabis.

Maybe you love rice-crispy treats or are not the biggest fan of brownies. Unlike a pre-packaged vaporizer pen, now you get to be in charge now to start your edible journey. Just remember, know your dosage.

Pre-Rolls & Blunts

Sometimes it’s best to let someone else do the hard work for you. Pre-rolls and blunts, like edibles, offer packaged, ready-to-go products that can alter consciousness. Pre-packaged vaporizer pens provide uncertain effects on the user.

Unlike a pre-roll and pre-rolled blunt, you can’t take a look at the size and weight of the pen and know how it might affect you. Prerolls and blunts follow a pretty obvious maxim; the bigger they are, the more cannabis you will feel and consume. Size doesn’t equate to vaporizer pens in this fashion. Often the sleek and smallest ones hit harder than the larger ones without any way of knowing if you’re a casual cannabis consumer. Pre-rolls fiercely compete in the cannabis market, driving companies to offer larger, superior options to earn your loyalty. The top cannabis delivery services offer diverse options for joints and blunts enthusiasts.

Pre-rolled products minimize mess, let you buy desired quantity worry-free without 3.5 grams for 5 joints. Now you can take a trip or take a hike without taking a risk. 

THC Concentrates

THC concentrates are exactly what these THC Vapes have inside them. So, why not be in charge and cut out the middle-man? Typically known as resin or shatter, THC concentrates offer a whole new level of consuming cannabis. When you consume THC concentrates instead of a vaporizer, the key difference is that it’s pure without added oils.

Cannabis deliver services can offer convenient ways to browse options when it comes to vaping alternqtives. Photo: A person looks at the Grassdoor app in a car.
Cannabis deliver services can offer convenient ways to browse options when it comes to vaping alternqtives. (Photo: Grassdoor)

Major news outlets cite synthetic vitamin E oil in vape-pens as the main cause of deaths and illnesses. Ensure your safety with the same cannabis effect by opting for THC concentrates that do not require a vape pen. For seasoned consumers, we suggest THC concentrates; those comfortable with potent hits and their resulting effects.

To use THC concentrates, you need a dab rig, torch, and they cost around $50 per gram. Perfect for high-tolerance cannabis users, offering a powerful one-hit finish to end the day.

CBD (Cannabidiol) Products

Sometimes, we need to remind ourselves that not everyone consumes cannabis products to get stoned. There are plenty of medicinal benefits to smoking and consuming CBD.

So much so all the best delivery services and cannabis shops are full of CBD creams, edibles, and even CBD cigarettes. A CBD cigarette, for example, can be a wonderful aid in helping someone to quit smoking tobacco. CBD creams can give people much-needed relief from arthritis pain that their vaporizers previously provided. CBD innovatively links and assures that consuming new, non-psychoactive products won’t involuntarily get you stoned.

Finding alternatives to vaping isn’t hard

There are many safe cannabis consumption alternatives that provide what you love, without vaping’s current risks. For the most part, it seems clear the vaping epidemic has really only affected a micro-population of cannabis users.

Either way, things are always evolving very fast in cannabis. Stay vigilant for anything harmful to your health; be aware of potential adverse effects. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these alternatives as much as we do.

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How Long Does It Take For CBD Oil To Work? How Fast Acting Is CBD? https://ministryofhemp.com/how-long-cbd-to-work/ https://ministryofhemp.com/how-long-cbd-to-work/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:24:13 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=58007 When you’re seeking relief, you want it both fast acting and long-lasting. So it’s understandable that people want to know how long it takes for CBD oil to go to work. The answer, however, depends on how you take it. The medicinal and therapeutic benefits of CBD (cannabidiol) are well-documented. Both scientific studies and anecdotal […]

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When you’re seeking relief, you want it both fast acting and long-lasting. So it’s understandable that people want to know how long it takes for CBD oil to go to work. The answer, however, depends on how you take it.

The medicinal and therapeutic benefits of CBD (cannabidiol) are well-documented. Both scientific studies and anecdotal evidence abound, resulting in a huge spike in the popularity of the extract. CBD is useful for conditions ranging from arthritis to seizure disorders, but with so many options available on the market right now, how do you know what’s right for your condition? Ultimately, it may depend on how quickly you need it to work.

Should you try CBD gummies? A vape? Tinctures? Different methods of administration have different onsets of effect, or the amount of time until they begin to work.

How long does it take for CBD oil to work? It depends on the method of ingestion. Photo: A generic bottle of CBD oil sits atop a stack of flat rocks with a candle and flowers in a meditative looking display.
How long does it take for CBD to work? It depends on the method of ingestion.

Let Ministry of Hemp walk you through the most popular forms of CBD and how quickly (or not quickly) they work so you can decide what’s best for your situation.

CBD oil tinctures

Easily portable and fast-acting, CBD oils, also known as sublingual drops or hemp extract, are gaining ground in the popularity contest with edibles. Extracts are combined with a carrier oil, usually coconut-based MCT oil or hemp seed oil, and flavoring to provide a fast-acting, easy-to-consume supplement.

Placing a few drops under the tongue introduces CBD to the bloodstream quickly. The area beneath the tongue, or the sublingual area, is full of blood vessels and the tissue covering them is very thin allowing CBD to be absorbed into the bloodstream almost immediately. Effects are generally felt quickly, making tinctures an ideal treatment for anxiety and other mood disorders. Many users report long-lasting effects from regular ingestion of tinctures.

Many tinctures have added flavor, commonly peppermint, citrus, or other strong flavors, to mask the naturally occurring hemp taste that some people find objectionable. 

Vaping Cannabidiol

Taking CBD through a vape pen is the quickest way to feel the effects.

The benefits of vaping CBD include fast absorption, customized dosing, and a relaxing experience.

There are a couple different types of vapes available, pen-style and tank-style, and while the mechanism in each works differently, the gist is the same. CBD extract is heated to become a vapor, then inhaled. Inhalation introduces cannabidiol directly into the bloodstream through your lungs, resulting in rapid, almost instant, onset of effect. This method is ideal for people with acute conditions who need the effects immediately.

However, vape pens can be cumbersome to use and carry around and may attract unwanted attention in public spaces. There are also some lingering health concerns about the potential side effects of vaping. Since most studies center on vaping nicotine-based products, it’s hard to determine if CBD vaping poses the same or similar risks.

People who live with anxiety or panic disorders may benefit from carrying a vape pen. The rapid onset makes them a great choice to use as a rescue when feelings of anxiety or panic surface.

Capsules, gummies & other edibles

Edibles are one of the most popular forms of CBD on the market. After extraction, CBD oil is added to food or capsules to make it more palatable.

Whether it’s a tasty gummy or an easy to swallow CBD capsule, many users appreciate the ease, discretion, and palatability of edibles. No one is going to think twice about someone eating a gummy or taking a capsule, which makes them a good choice if you plan to be out and about and don’t feel like fielding a thousand questions about why you take CBD. It’s also easy to control the dosage.

Supplements in softgel capsules spill from a white plastic bottle onto a featureless white surface. Ministry of Hemp selected the best CBD capsules and softgels available for sale online.
CBD capsules and edibles may take longer to work, but can also offer long-lasting effects.

One drawback is the time it takes for the supplement to make its way into your bloodstream and begin working. Anything we swallow enters the stomach and, like food and drink, goes through the laborious process of digestion. Enzymes in the stomach break down what we ingest to make it easier to for the intestines to process. Chemicals like CBD are filtered through the liver where they then enter the bloodstream where they begin their work.

It doesn’t take long, usually 20 minutes to an hour, depending on your metabolism and how recently you ate. Edibles are a great choice to start your day, as an addition to your vitamin regimen or for treatment of headaches or other pain, but if you’re using CBD to treat acute conditions, edibles may not be your best option.

CBD Topicals

CBD lotions, massage oils, and creams are a great choice for skin conditions, muscle pain, or joint pain.

The question of how long it takes for a CBD topical to work is a complex one. What little research that exists suggests cannabinoids can be slow to pass through the skin, taking as long as 5 hours to go into effect. But many everyday users of CBD topicals report a much quicker onset. One expert, Keith Butler from LifePatent, told us he thinks CBD may have a unique ability to rapidly cross the skin into the body. But right now we just don’t know enough to scientifically separate the placebo effect, or the effect of other ingredients commonly found in these topicals, from the effect of CBD.

a person applies a salve to their elbow. CBD topicals can go directly to work where they're needed most.
Topical CBD products bypass the digestive system to go directly to work where they’re needed most.

Regardless of how quickly topicals actually work, many CBD consumers find that they offer a valuable form of relief. We recommend applying the topical before the pain becomes especially severe, and reapplying as needed throughout the day. You may want to combine them with other forms of CBD for maximum relief.

How long does it take for CBD to work? It depends … 

CBD is both versatile and effective in managing a multitude of conditions. The fact that it’s available in several different forms allows you to tailor your treatment to your specific condition.

We expect that in the near future, there will be more research into how long it takes for CBD to work. We’ll have a better understanding of how different forms of CBD work differently. In the meantime, mix and match methods and find what works for you.

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Vaping CBD 101: Benefits, Side Effects & How to Vape CBD Oil https://ministryofhemp.com/vaping-cbd-101/ https://ministryofhemp.com/vaping-cbd-101/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:00:00 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=53936 In our comprehensive guid, we take a closer look at the health risks, and potential benefits of vaping.

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Vaping CBD is one of the easiest methods available to consume this beneficial supplement.

For many people with chronic pain or other conditions treated with CBD, vaping provides convenient and quick relief. However, getting started can be a daunting task for inexperienced vapers. With so many CBD brands to buy from, is that disposable pen vape at the gas station down the street really the best option? Probably not.

Many stores take advantage of new vapers’ lack of knowledge. Newcomers buy overpriced equipment or, worse, a dangerous or counterfeit product. It is important to acquire a basic understanding of vaping and the components involved before making your first purchase.

We’ll also discuss some of the health concerns around vaping, so you can make a more informed decision about whether this is the right way for you to take CBD. In recent months, some serious injuries and even a handful of deaths from vaping were reported, and we explain what is, and isn’t known about that below too.

Can you vape CBD?

You’ve probably seen CBD popping up all over, and getting added to almost everything. So it’s natural to wonder if you can vape CBD.

The short answer is yes, you can vape CBD. However, you need both special equipment and a special form of CBD vape juice in order to do so safely. Just like people vaping nicotine products use special vape juice, you’ll need CBD oil in a similar specialized form to properly inhale the vapor.

In this article, we look at different equipment you might use to vape CBD. Remember, always buy from a reputable brand. Many of our Top CBD Brands offer CBD vape products in various forms. It’s possible to buy simple, disposable vapes and vape cartridges from these brands. However, the article below will teach you much more about how to vape and whether it’s the right choice for you.

The Benefits Of Vaping CBD

The hemp industry has seen enormous growth in recent years because of its powerful health benefits. Thousands of testimonials and some scientific studies report CBD offers healing for all sorts of mental and physical health conditions, including anxiety, insomnia, pain, inflammation, and epilepsy. You can experience the benefits of CBD through a variety of consumption methods, including eating it, taking it under the tongue, applying it to the skin and more. However, vaping allows for fast absorption and an overall relaxing, efficient CBD experience.

The benefits of vaping CBD include fast absorption, customized dosing, and a relaxing experience.

However, many people find inhaling CBD vape oil is their preferred method. Here are some of the benefits of vaping CBD:

Vaping CBD Means Fast Absorption

If you are looking for immediate relief, vaping CBD might be your best option.

CBD vape oil has a faster absorption rate than other forms of CBD, like edibles and oils. This is because the CBD reaches your bloodstream through your lungs rather than having to go through your digestive system. It’s common for the medicinal effects of CBD vape oil to be felt immediately, or within a few minutes. The fast absorption rate makes vape oil a favorable solution for those who suffer from anxiety attacks, short-term stress and pain flare-ups.

It’s possible that inhaling CBD can have higher bioavailability when compared to other consumption methods, meaning more of the compound is absorbed into the body. In a study that compared the bioavailability of psychoactive cannabis among various consumption methods, results showed that inhalation of THC had an availability of 18 percent, and eating a THC cookie provided a six percent availability. While this study analyzed the bioavailability of THC, the results should be somewhat comparable to the bioavailability of CBD. The two compounds have some similarities in how they are absorbed by the body.

High Purity, Fewer Ingredients

Many CBD products on the market include other natural ingredients to enhance the health benefits, but some consumers may want to stick to just the CBD.

Many people find the experience of vaping CBD to be extremely relaxing.

Vape oils typically offer CBD in its purest form. You can expect only a small handful of ingredients in a premium CBD vape oil. Most are usually 100 percent pure CBD extract, plus vegetable glycerin (VG) and propylene glycol (PG). These two ingredients bind the vape oil and produce the clouds commonly associated with vaping. Pure CBD vape oils may also contain a flavoring component. This is one of the major benefits of vaping CBD if you want a pure and potent supplement without fewer added ingredients.

Unlike other vape products on the market, pure CBD vape oils do not contain nicotine or any other addictive chemicals. CBD itself is non-addictive, and it is not linked with severe side effects or overdose. CBD is generally regarded as safe, and many say it adds significant value to their health.

Vaping CBD Offers Customizing Dosing

Some CBD products, including gummies and capsules, contain a pre-measured dose of CBD. CBD vape oil offers another way to completely customize your dosing. With a few simple calculations, you can determine exactly how much vape oil to add and inhale to consume the amount you want.

You can also purchase your CBD vape oil in various potency levels, from as low as 25mg per bottle all the way up to 4,000mg per bottle. If you are vaping CBD simply for a mild calming effect, you can elect for a small dose. Those who are using CBD to treat moderate or severe health conditions may choose a strong, high-potency dose. Vaping CBD is also a good option if you want to take varying doses of CBD depending on the day.

Vaping CBD Is Relaxing

Many people consume CBD purely for the relaxation benefits. One could argue that vaping is perhaps the most relaxing way to take CBD, as it produces soft, pleasant clouds that gently seep into your breath and lungs to promote calmness. CBD vape oil is often enhanced with delicious flavors, making the taste and smell very enjoyable.

vaping CBD in a cafeA man exhales vapor after using a tank-style vaporizer while using a laptop. Preliminary research suggests vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes, but may still present some health risks, especially for nonsmokers who are considering vaping CBD.
Since CBD e-juice doesn’t have a distinct odor, no one needs to know you’re vaping CBD.

CBD vapers can take a few puffs to escape from daytime stress or vape before bed to help relax into a state of rest. The mellow experience of vaping combines with the natural tranquility of CBD to create deep relaxation.

It’s not uncommon for people to take CBD while in public or at work. While CBD is safe to use virtually anytime and anywhere, some may feel insecure about taking a capsule or drops of oil with others watching. Vaping CBD is a discreet way of taking your CBD dose on-the-go without pulling out a tincture or bottle. No one will know you are taking CBD unless you tell them since CBD vape oil doesn’t have a distinct smell or look. You can seamlessly incorporate CBD into your daily vaping routine without notice.

When it comes to choosing a CBD consumption method, there is no right or wrong answer. No matter how you choose to take it, you will likely benefit from its therapeutic qualities. The benefits of vaping CBD are clear if you want fast relaxation and convenience.

Many users describe an almost instantaneous effect when they first vape CBD.

Vaping CBD oil offers immediate relief for some users, but are there health risks?
A woman exhales a cloud of vapor after using an electronic cigarette. Vaping CBD is increasingly popular because many users report feeling its effects more quickly than with other methods of taking CBD oil.

Edible forms can take more than 30 minutes to digest and enter the user’s bloodstream. For people using CBD to treat seizures, chronic pain, anxiety, or other similar ailments, waiting isn’t always an option.

Vaping works so quickly because it’s one of the most bioavailable ways to take CBD. We explained more about bioavailability and CBD in this brief video:

Vaping also allows users the ability to remain discreet and consume CBD in public. With a tank or a vape pen, a dose is never further away than your pants.

An Introduction To Vaping CBD: Know Your Equipment

Not every vape is the same, but they all have four basic components: a battery, a heating element (also known as an atomizer), a mouthpiece, and a chamber to hold the material to be vaped. The heating element vaporizes whatever material it comes in contact within the chamber and the user inhales the vapor through the mouthpiece.

From here there are two distinct styles of vapes that we are concerned with for vaping CBD. The most common style of vape you’ll see is a “tank style” vape, where a battery heats up a small disposable cartridge or a refillable container. The other kind is a pen-style vape, typically used for concentrates like CBD isolate.

Tank-style vapes and CBD

The tank style of vape is the kind that produces the famous billowing clouds associated with vaping. These are known as “tank style” vapes. Tanks require e-liquid, a mixture of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavorings and CBD. The heating coil inside is filled or wrapped with cotton, nylon or silica wick to absorb the e-liquid into the coils.

When it comes to tank style vapes, there are yet another two variations: disposable and refillable. Disposable vapes (also known as “cartomizers” because they use prefilled, disposable cartridges) are convenient and easy to find. However, some are made with cheaper materials and are of questionable quality. If used improperly, the coil and wick can burn up, leaving the entire system useless. With a refillable vape, users add their own e-liquid to and the heating coils are often replaceable.

With disposable vapes, users have little control over the metal used in the coil, flavors used in the e-liquid, the quality of the CBD or the base chemicals used in the e-liquid.

There are also more complex, rebuildable vapes for advanced users who want to control every aspect of the vape hardware. However, these require a higher level of knowledge than the average user possesses or is willing to invest.

a collection of vaping parts for CBD
All vaporizers have four basic components: a battery, a heating element (also known as an atomizer), a mouthpiece and a chamber or tank to hold the material to be vaped.

Pen style vaping and CBD concentrates

Pen-style vapes make it easy to vape concentrates. It consists of a chamber with a metal heating coil in the bottom that vaporizes concentrated CBD isolate placed directly on the coils.

The problem with vape pens is that the coil must be replaced periodically when it burns out and each one costs upwards of $20.

What’s more, as the heating coil slowly breaks down and oxidizes through repeated use, metal nanoparticles can potentially become aerosolized in the vapor being inhaled. Coil life can be extended by only using pure CBD isolates in the pen. Flavor additives and impure CBD leaves residue on the coil and speeds up oxidation.

Pens vs. tanks

For tobacco smokers, a refillable tank is the most common style of vape. Therefore, it may be easy to add CBD to your tank or try a CBD e-juice. Disposable cartridges, though somewhat wasteful, offer an easy and mess-free way to get started.

Meanwhile, a refillable pen style vape that uses CBD concentrates instead of e-liquid is the best option if you want an absolutely pure CBD experience. Online vendors often sell pens as all-in-one kits. Replacement atomizers can be purchased online. Pens allow the user more control over the materials in the vape and what chemicals you consume.

The main drawback to using CBD e-liquid in a tank or cart, over pure concentrates, is the maximum dissolution rate. The most CBD that e-liquid can hold is about 33mg/ml, without the addition of harsh chemicals. This means that to achieve a typical dose, you need to take many more puffs to ingest the same amount of CBD as you’d get from a pen.

Potential Health Concerns of Vaping CBD

A small percentage of users are allergic or later develop allergies to some of the chemicals and materials used in vapes. Some studies found negligible amounts of metal particulate and other dangerous contaminants, such as lead and cadmium, in commercially available vapes. There have also been a handful of reports of serious injuries, and even death from vaping.

This is why it is so important to be informed before pursuing vaping, to avoid any potential allergens or contaminants. As technologies and regulations continue to evolve, these risks will become better understood and easier to mitigate. We’ll go into more about what we know about each of these risks below.

We need to stress, as always, that we’re not doctors or medical experts. You should consult the latest research and, when in doubt, talk to your doctor.

Vitamin E acetate and reports of death and lung damage from vaping

Reports of serious lung damage and even deaths of vape users emerged during the summer of 2019. It appears a single culprit was responsible for most or all of these issues: vitamin E acetate.

It’s important to note that vitamin E is a common ingredient in skin care products, supplements, and other everyday wellness products. It’s very safe in this form. However, it appears the same isn’t true for vaping.

Reports indicate that some vape users suffered serious, lasting effects including lung damage. Even more tragically, some deaths resulted from the vaping crisis. 

It appears vitamin E acetate caused most or all of the harm suffered by vaping users. Some journalists also reported harm caused by certain terpene-based additives.

While initial reports were confusing, it appears that all the victims bought black market psychoactive cannabis (THC) vape cartridges. Leafly’s David Downs compared the situation to alcohol prohibition, when “drinkers had to worry about getting sick and dying from ‘bathtub gin.’” Total legalization will make people safer.

While we understand why some people choose to buy cannabis on the black market, whether for medical or recreational purposes, we can only recommend avoiding black market vape cartridges until further notice.

Even though CBD products weren’t ultimately involved in this, consumers should proceed with caution. Remember that CBD is unregulated. There’s no government agency approving the ingredients of each product. Always make sure you choose brands carefully, reviewing ingredients lists and always check for third-party lab results.

Could Metals Pose A Health Risk When Vaping CBD?

With pen-style, concentrate vapes, the main material of concern is the heating coil. These are typically made from titanium, stainless steel, Kanthal (an alloy of iron, chromium and aluminum), nickel-chromium alloy or pure nickel wire. Most commercially available vapes use Kanthal, grade 1 titanium or stainless steel.

According to a study from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, researchers found that e-cig users “overall exposure to metals from electronic cigarette use is not expected to be of significant health concern for smokers switching to electronic cigarette use, but is an unnecessary source of exposure for never-smokers.”

While the levels of metals measured in the aerosolized vapors were well below recommended exposure levels, vapers are still consuming metal nanoparticles that they wouldn’t otherwise be consuming. It is important to research what materials are in any vape you plan to purchase. You also have to buy it from a reputable source. A lot of vendors sell knock-off vape hardware manufactured from inferior materials.

Alternatives coils could still pose a risk

The study states that choosing a vape made from stainless steel and borosilicate glass could eliminate certain contaminants. Vape makers typically list the materials materials used in their products online and on the box. Using a vape with cotton or quartz wick and a titanium, stainless steel or Kanthal heating coil is probably safest. With nickel compounds designated as carcinogens and 10%-20% of the population sensitive to nickel, nickel and nickel-chromium coils should be avoided entirely.

As metal wire is heated and cooled repeatedly, an outer layer of metal oxide forms. When liquid comes in contact with the coils, the oxidized layer of metal nanoparticles can contaminate the vapor. These particles then travel into the user’s lungs. If you want to eliminate these contaminants entirely, skip ahead to the section on alternatives to vaping. If you still intend to vape, you should know a little bit more about oxidation and wire.

The main oxide on titanium wire is titanium dioxide. This compound is commonly used in beauty products. Researchers found it caused DNA damage in mice. Kanthal and stainless steel wire both produce chromium oxides and ions, but the carcinogenic chromium ion, chromium VI, wasn’t found in aerosolized vapor.

Nowadays, many vapes are marketed as having quartz or ceramic heating elements. However, many still have exposed wire wrapped around a ceramic or quartz core. Vapes like this are still going to leech metal contaminants into the inhaled vapor.

Potential Allergens In CBD Vape Oil

The main two chemicals in CBD e-liquid are propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin. Users with sensitivities to either of these chemicals will notice sinus irritation, nausea or a headache upon use. Individuals with more severe allergies can break out in hives, develop swelling or have difficulty breathing. Luckily, both chemicals are so ubiquitous that many people are already aware of allergies.

Propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin are common ingredients in smoke machine vapor, cosmetics, hair products, food, drinks, cigarettes, medicine and many more products. Vegetable glycerin allergy is very rare. Most reactions are likely caused by an allergy to the plant oil the vegetable glycerin was derived from. Propylene glycol allergies on the other hand are much more common, but entirely avoidable.

While pure vegetable glycerin liquids are available, it doesn’t readily absorb into the wicking of most vapes. Pure vegetable glycerin juice requires advanced equipment called a rebuildable atomizer, or RBA, which is outside the scope of this introduction. As well, pure vegetable glycerin is difficult to use with CBD. Cannabidiol tends to precipitate out of the liquid into crystals. Polyethylene glycol, added to the vegetable glycerin, allows more CBD to dissolve into the liquid; however, it is extremely bitter and harsh.

Alternatives To Vaping CBD

This article is mainly concerned with vaping and making it as safe as possible for new users. Still, there are many alternative methods for consuming CBD.

1. Dabbing Or Smoking Hemp Flower

If you need quick relief, you can smoke high-CBD hemp strains. Concentrated CBD isolates or high-CBD kief can be vaporized out of a more traditional water pipe. The disadvantage to this is it is impossible to do in public without looking like a “drug user.”

Preliminary research suggests vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes, but may still present some health risks, especially for nonsmokers who are considering vaping CBD.
A man exhales vapor after using a tank-style vaporizer while using a laptop. Preliminary research suggests vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes, but may still present some health risks, especially for nonsmokers who are considering vaping CBD.

It’s increasingly easy to buy smokable hemp flowers. You can find both pre-rolled hemp cigarettes and joints, or loose hemp buds for smoking in a pipe. While hemp flower won’t make you “feel high,” it can be a quick and effective way to ingest a potent dose of CBD and immediately feel its effects. You can even use hemp flower to make DIY CBD oil.

You can also take CBD through a process known as dabbing. First, a quartz dish is attached to the stem of a glass water pipe. Then, the dish gets heated up, usually with a blowtorch or heating coil. The heat vaporizes CBD isolate in the quartz dish for the user to inhale. This form of consumption is vastly healthier. The only chemical that CBD vapor can be contaminated with is water. Additionally, quartz is an inert and durable material.

2. Skip the vape and eat your CBD

If you don’t mind waiting or need external relief, edibles, capsules, and topical creams provide a great alternative. Of course, CBD drops or tinctures are also easy to take and relatively fast-acting. You can easily add CBD to almost anything that people consume.

3. CBD inhalers

A few brands now actually offer CBD inhalers. These look almost identical to an asthma inhaler. Similarly, you may feel immediate effects from this kind of CBD. These factors make inhalers an appealing, relatively discreet alternative to vaping CBD.

Is Vaping CBD Worth The Health Risks?

Non-smokers interested in vaping CBD should be relatively cautious about the health risks. At the same time, exposure to contaminants is less compared to traditional forms of smoking. Short-term and mid-term studies on the health effects of vaping show no significant side effects in smokers.

Whether or not vaping is right for you, CBD is always an option. Now that you know more about vaping, you can make a more informed decision. Still, it’s important to continue doing more research. Read product reviews, watch YouTube videos, read Reddit posts, and search for more information before you buy anything. If you can’t find any information on a product, that is a huge red flag! Don’t buy it!

Scientists continue to study the long-term effects of vaping. While we wait for their research and for regulations to catch up with new technology, vaping poses some health risks. The technology is too new to say definitively that it’s completely safe with total certainty.

We’ll continue to monitor reports of health risks and new developments in vaping technology, and we’ll keep this article updated accordingly.

Jessica St. Cyr and Kit O’Connell contributed reporting to this article.

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The Benefits Of Vaping CBD: Fast, Better Bioavailability & Convenient https://ministryofhemp.com/benefits-of-vaping-cbd/ https://ministryofhemp.com/benefits-of-vaping-cbd/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:34:00 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=54092 Though this supplement is available in many forms, more and more people are discovering the benefits of vaping CBD oil. Vaping allows for fast absorption and an overall relaxing, efficient CBD experience.

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Though this supplement is available in many forms, more and more people are discovering the benefits of vaping CBD oil.

The hemp industry has seen enormous growth in recent years because of its powerful health benefits. Thousands of testimonials and some scientific studies report CBD offers healing for all sorts of mental and physical health conditions, including anxiety, insomnia, pain, inflammation, and epilepsy. You can experience the benefits of CBD through a variety of consumption methods, including eating it, taking it under the tongue, applying it to the skin and more. However, vaping allows for fast absorption and an overall relaxing, efficient CBD experience.

The benefits of vaping CBD include fast absorption, customized dosing, and a relaxing experience.

However, many people find inhaling CBD vape oil is their preferred method. Here are some of the benefits of vaping CBD:

Vaping CBD Means Fast Absorption

If you are looking for immediate relief, vaping CBD might be your best option.

CBD vape oil has a faster absorption rate than other forms of CBD, like edibles and oils. This is because the CBD reaches your bloodstream through your lungs rather than having to go through your digestive system. It’s common for the medicinal effects of CBD vape oil to be felt immediately, or within a few minutes. The fast absorption rate makes vape oil a favorable solution for those who suffer from anxiety attacks, short-term stress and pain flare-ups.

It’s possible that inhaling CBD can have higher bioavailability when compared to other consumption methods, meaning more of the compound is absorbed into the body. In a study that compared the bioavailability of psychoactive cannabis among various consumption methods, results showed that inhalation of THC had an availability of 18 percent and eating a THC cookie provided a six percent availability. While this study analyzed the bioavailability of THC, the results should be somewhat comparable to the bioavailability of CBD. The two compounds have some similarity in how they are absorbed by the body.

High Purity, Fewer Ingredients

Many CBD products on the market include other natural ingredients to enhance the health benefits, but some consumers may want to stick to just the CBD.

Many people find the experience of vaping CBD to be extremely relaxing.

Vape oils typically offer CBD in its purest form. You can expect only a small handful of ingredients in a premium CBD vape oil. Most are usually 100 percent pure CBD extract, plus vegetable glycerin (VG) and propylene glycol (PG). These two ingredients bind the vape oil and produce the clouds commonly associated with vaping. Pure CBD vape oils may also contain a flavoring component. This is one of the major benefits of vaping CBD if you want a pure and potent supplement without fewer added ingredients.

Unlike other vape products on the market, pure CBD vape oils do not contain nicotine, or any other addictive chemicals. CBD itself is non-addictive, and it is not linked with severe side effects or overdose. CBD is generally regarded as safe, and many say it adds significant value to their health.

Vaping CBD Offers Customizing Dosing

Some CBD products, including gummies and capsules, contain a pre-measured dose of CBD. CBD vape oil offers another way to completely customize your dosing. With a few simple calculations, you can determine exactly how much vape oil to add and inhale to consume the amount you want.

You can also purchase your CBD vape oil in various potency levels, from as low as 25mg per bottle all the way up to 4,000mg per bottle. If you are vaping CBD simply for a mild calming effect, you can elect for a small dose. Those who are using CBD to treat moderate or severe health conditions may choose a strong, high-potency dose. Vaping CBD is also a good option if you want to take varying doses of CBD depending on the day.

Vaping CBD Is Relaxing

Many people consume CBD purely for the relaxation benefits. One could argue that vaping is perhaps the most relaxing way to take CBD, as it produces soft, pleasant clouds that gently seep into your breath and lungs to promote calmness. CBD vape oil is often enhanced with delicious flavors, making the taste and smell very enjoyable.

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Since CBD e-juice doesn’t have a distinct odor, no one needs to know you’re vaping CBD.

CBD vapers can take a few puffs to escape from daytime stress or vape before bed to help relax into a state of rest. The mellow experience of vaping combines with the natural tranquility of CBD to create deep relaxation.

It’s not uncommon for people to take CBD while in public or at work. While CBD is safe to use virtually anytime and anywhere, some may feel insecure about taking a capsule or drops of oil with others watching. Vaping CBD is a discreet way of taking your CBD dose on-the-go without pulling out a tincture or bottle. No one will know you are taking CBD unless you tell them since CBD vape oil doesn’t have a distinct smell or look. You can seamlessly incorporate CBD into your daily vaping routine without notice.

When it comes to choosing a CBD consumption method, there is no right or wrong answer. No matter how you choose to take it, you will likely benefit from its therapeutic qualities. The benefits of vaping CBD are clear if you want fast relaxation and convenience.

Want to learn more about CBD vaping? Check out Ministry of Hemp’s article on Vaping CBD 101.

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There’s a lot of options when it comes to buying CBD products. We thought it might help to make a brief guide to understanding the different types of CBD oil products available today.

There’s a ton of new brands popping up every day to offer the latest version of CBD oil. All these brands are offering a lot of different types of CBD products. To make it even more confusing, all their products come in different concentrations.

There’s some hype out there and even fake products. For example, you should never buy CBD on Amazon because of the profusion of fake products on the site.

Even when you find a reputable brand of CBD, it can be confusing to figure out which type of CBD is right for you.

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How to choose the right CBD oil product

If you’re unsure which brand to go with, you can always check our Top CBD Brands review page to see which brand would be the best fit for you. You’ll also find guides to different types of products in the menus of our website. (Hint: Whatever brand you choose, make sure they provide 3rd party results and that they use U.S.-grown hemp)

Even after you choose a brand that you like, it’s easy to get confused by what type of CBD to buy. Many brands are now offering a wide range of products, including capsules, lotions, tinctures, and more. The Paradox of Choice can easily cause more stress.

So, to make it easier for everyone, we broke it down and created a list of the top ways to take CBD. Our analysis describes what each type of product is, when it’s most effective (or noneffective), and how to properly use it.

Some of the most popular different types of CBD oil products include tinctures, capsules or softgels, vapes, and CBD gummies and other edibles. A four-part composite image showing a person taking a tincture, a woman holding a CBD capsule, a woman leaning against a wall exhaling vapor, and another woman holding a gummy.
Some of the most popular different types of CBD products include CBD oil or tinctures, CBD capsules or softgels, CBD vapes, and CBD gummies and other edibles.

Table of contents: Which type of CBD oil is right for you?

Overall, the top ways to take and use CBD oil are (listed in no particular order):

When buying any of these products, we highly recommend that you do your own research on CBD and hemp extracts with reputable publications before making a decision on which product and concentration to buy. You can click on each product type above to get more information about how and why you might take it.

Some factors to consider when choosing products include flavor, strength, and how easy or convenient it is for you to take it. Different forms of CBD also have different bioavailability, meaning it’s a bit easier for your body to absorb CBD in products like CBD oil or vapes than it is in forms such as capsules or gummies.

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Tinctures

Tinctures or oils (the term is used interchangeably) are the most common form of CBD on the market.

CBD tinctures are the most common type of CBD product. Photo: A person in a suit jacket and button down formal shirt takes a CBD tincture from a dropper.
CBD oil is the most common type of CBD product.

Compared to any other products, tinctures and concentrates are probably the most pure applications of CBD, as manufacturers don’t need to do any additional processing of the CBD oil. Some brands do add a little flavor to their tinctures, which makes it easier (and more enjoyable) for customers to take.

Tinctures are taken by dropping a couple drops on or under your tongue. A bottle of CBD can range from 250mg to 1000mg or more. That means doses vary widely, so it’s important that you do your own research on what strength you choose.

The main downside of tinctures is it could get a bit messy if you happen to spill drops while using it. For some, using tinctures to drop a CBD extract on/under their tongue could seem a bit awkward, especially if you use it everyday. In addition, some people might find the taste unpleasant. However, this form of CBD oil is relatively fast acting, and convenient for people to take almost any time.

How To Use Tinctures

A tincture is known to be most effective by not swallowing the liquid right away. You want to ingest as much as you can sub-lingually. Place the drops under your tongue, and use your tongue to rub the oil along the cheeks. Then, hold it in your mouth for as long as you can (at least 30 to 60 seconds).

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CBD can be packaged into a softgel or capsule, making it convenient to take alongside other pills or supplements.

Capsules

Using capsules is probably the easiest way to add CBD to your life as a daily supplement. If you already take vitamins, medicines, or any other supplements, you can just add CBD capsules or softgels to your daily regimen.

Capsules typically offer 10-25mg of CBD, but some are stronger. Once you figure out your preferred dose, you can even combine CBD capsules with different types of CBD. For example, you might start your day with a CBD capsule, then supplement as needed with oil or a vape.

How To Use Capsules

Capsules are great as it’s the easiest type of CBD to add to your daily regimen. Just take one capsule (or as needed) daily with water.

People use CBD topicals to help ease a variety of everyday aches, inflammation and pains. Photo: Two people apply Populum Cold Therapy Hemp Rub, a CBD-infused cream.
People use CBD topicals to help ease a variety of everyday aches, inflammation and pains. (Photo: Populum)

Topicals

Most major CBD brands now offer CBD in a topical form, such as lotions, salve, and creams and even lip balms. Many consumers report that CBD topicals help with chronic pain, inflammation, acne, psoriasis, and more. Right now, the research is limited, but the products are very popular both for health and CBD-infused skin care.

Using CBD-infused topicals helps more with localized pain or a specific part of your body you want to help with cannabidiol. Most people wouldn’t take a topical for anxiety, to help with sleep, and so on, but would choose another form. Many people use topicals alongside other forms of CBD.

Today, CBD topicals come in a variety of formulas. Some include just CBD and a few other ingredients to create the lotion, while others feature additional botanicals and natural compounds like menthol or arnica which could offer their own benefits.

How To Use Topicals

CBD infused topicals are recommended to be used as other similar body care products – use it when you deem necessary or when you have certain skin conditions. Apply generously to body areas that could benefit from the topical solution.

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Some consumers report CBD vaping offers fast-acting relief of symptoms of anxiety and other issues like pain.

Vapes

Based on reviews and anecdotal consumer reports, the effects of smoking or vaporizing CBD vape oil might not be as long lasting as using tinctures, concentrates, and capsules. On the flip side, some consumers report immediate relief of troubling symptoms of anxiety or pain when they vape.

Seems like it’s working for fighter Nate Diaz, who told reporters he was vaping CBD to recover when asked at a post-fight press conference. His public use of CBD actually helped push the sporting industry to become more lenient towards these products.

There were health concerns around vaping recently, especially caused by some serious health effects and even deaths suffered by users of black market psychoactive cannabis (“marijuana”) vapes. Most or all of these vape health problems were traced to vitamin E oil, used as a thickener in some cartridges or e-liquids. Vitamin E is sometimes safely used as a preservative in edible or topical products, but is not safe to inhale in any form. Reputable CBD brands never used this in vapes, and certainly know to avoid it now.

How To Use Vapes

In order to use CBD vape oil, you will need an e-cigarette, vape pen, or vaporizer. Add, heat and inhale the appropriate amount of vape oil to your choice of device. See our CBD Vaping 101 guide for more on getting started with this type of CBD.

Assorted rainbow gummy bears spill from a plastic bottle. When it comes to CBD dosing, start small and increase gradually after you feel the supplement's effects. CBD gummies come in a variety of dosages, typically offering between 5mg and 25mg per candy.
CBD gummies come in a variety of dosages, typically offering between 5mg and 25mg per candy.

CBD gummies & other edibles

We’ve got a soft spot in our heart (or maybe our stomachs) for CBD gummies.

These sweet treats are just too easy to take, which is probably why a variety of vitamins and supplements like cannabidiol can now be found in gummy form. Who wouldn’t want to get benefits from eating candy?

Of course, the sugar content of many gummies can be a concern for some people. In addition, it’s always important to check the ingredients list for any concerns like allergens or animal-based products, more so than with some other types of CBD oil products. For example, the vast majority of CBD oils are gluten free and vegan, but some gummies and edibles could contain wheat, animal glycerin, and so on.

The bioavailability of CBD gummies can vary a lot. The lowest quality gummies are just candy with CBD solution sprayed on the outside. Good brands use more care in formulating gummies which will be more effective for their consumers. In addition, it can be a little harder to find a full spectrum CBD gummy, and these tend to taste a little bit more “hempy” than gummies made with CBD isolate.

How to use edibles

Similar to a CBD capsule, it’s easy to take a CBD gummy almost anytime and anywhere. Be careful: though they seem like candy, CBD can have side effects and some people report feeling a bit sleepy, spacey or lethargic when they consume too much CBD, especially in edible form.

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An increasing number of consumers enjoy smoking hemp flower or pre-rolled hemp “joints.” (Photo: Mr. Hemp Flower)

Hemp flower or hemp joints

Now that hemp is legal in the U.S., people all over the country enjoy smoking hemp flower.

This type of CBD or hemp can be made into a “joint” or hand-rolled cigarette, or smoked in a pipe. You can even use it to make your own CBD oil. It might be one of the fastest growing types of CBD around today, in terms of popularity.

While hemp flower looks (and smells) like psychoactive cannabis (“marijuana”), it still doesn’t make you feel high, just like the other types of CBD oil product on this list. People who smoke hemp flower report feeling very relaxed afterwards, and some may find temporary relief of pain, anxiety, or other troubling conditions. Effects are similar in many ways to vaping. While inhaling any kind of smoke has health risks, some people may prefer smoking hemp flower to worrying about the additives in vape products.

Of course, even though CBD and hemp are legal, it’s still possible you could get in trouble, at least temporarily, because this product looks and smells like psychoactive cannabis. Use discretion about when and where you light up, or where you carry this product, especially if you’re in an area where police or other law enforcement are especially vigilant about enforcing the war on drugs.

How to use flower or joints

For hemp flower, you’ll need a lighter and a pipe or other smoking device. Break up the hemp bud into very small pieces using an herb grinder, a small pair of scissors or just your hands. Use care to remove any stem pieces (you probably won’t find seeds in high-quality hemp flower, but remove those too). Place the broken up material in your pipe, light and inhale, drawing the smoke into your lungs.

Another convenient option are pre-rolled hemp cigarettes or joints. While these can be more expensive or less efficient than smoking flower, they are easy to smoke and easy to share. Just light and smoke them as you would any other rolled cigarette.

Other types of CBD oil product

  • CBD inhalers
  • CBD gums
  • CBD drinks and tea
  • CBD coconut oil
  • CBD sweeteners (infused sugar or agave)

There’s a vast number of different types of CBD oil products on the market today. So many that we made a list of dozens of different CBD products and still couldn’t list them all. Beware: CBD is overhyped right now, and some products (like CBD pillows?!) probably don’t offer many real benefits, especially for the price. At the same time, new, convenient and fun forms of CBD are appearing regularly too.

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So what type of CBD should I use?

Honestly, from the research we’ve done, there doesn’t seem to be one right answer or one superior option. It’s just a matter of preference. Here’s our advice on how to find the best product for you:

  • Do as much research about CBD as possible. Check out other articles on our website or even the CBD subbreddit.
  • Next, figure out what brand you trust. You can see side-by-side comparisons on our Top CBD Brands page. Be aware of what you should look out for when when shopping for a brand. Here’s a list of features to look for in a quality CBD brand.
  • After you’ve decided on a brand, make sure to try out a couple different types of their products. It might be easier to try out CBD oil or capsules first. Then, gradually try other types, such as edibles or vapes, to see if it’s more effective for you and to see if it’s a good fit for your daily lifestyle.
  • Remember, we’re not doctors and can’t offer you medical advice! Be sure to consult with a medical professional before starting any supplement, modifying your medical treatment in any way, or if you’re worried about drug interactions with CBD — though rare, some do exist.

We wish you the best of luck as you search for the CBD product that suits you best! With any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out to us at hello@ministryofhemp.com .

Kit O’Connell contributed to this guide.

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CBD Vape Oil For Pain, Anxiety, & More: Why Do People Vape CBD? https://ministryofhemp.com/cbd-vape-oil/ https://ministryofhemp.com/cbd-vape-oil/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:00 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=54616 Although CBD can be taken in many forms, more and more people are choosing CBD vape oil as their preferred form of cannabidiol. Thanks to fast absorption, vaping CBD may be ideal for fast relief of anxiety, stress, and chronic pain.

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More and more people are using CBD vape oil thanks to its convenience and fast acting effects

Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of over 100 cannabinoids found in hemp and marijuana plants. Unlike the mind-altering THC, the cannabinoid associated with marijuana, CBD does not have the ability to make a user high. The hemp and CBD industry have seen immense growth over the last decade due to countless studies that suggest cannabidiol may provide various health benefits.

A person vapes CBD while waiting at a suburban bus stop, wearing headphones, jeans and a hoodie. Due to it's absorption rate, CBD vape oil is a fast, easy way to get relief from numerous troubling symptoms. (Photo: Medix CBD)
Due to its rapid absorption rate, CBD vape oil is a fast, easy way to get relief from numerous troubling symptoms. (Photo: Medix CBD)

CBD may also help with conditions such as anxiety, pain, inflammation, insomnia, and epilepsy. With thousands of CBD consumers praising its effects and a growing body of scientific evidence in support of its safety, even many medical professionals are now recommending CBD. Although CBD can be taken in many forms, more and more people are choosing CBD vape oil as their preferred form of cannabidiol.

Vaping CBD is easy, allows for fast absorption, and is a relaxing experience.

Table of contents: Why do people vape CBD?

Vaping CBD provides immediate relief

In comparison to cannabidiol oils and gummies, CBD vape oil has a faster absorption rate because the CBD reaches the bloodstream through the lungs instead of having to go through the digestive system. Because of this, it is common for vapers to instantly feel the therapeutic effects of the CBD.

This quick absorption rate is ideal for people that suffer from:

  • Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Reoccurring Pain
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CBD vape oil is a convenient, fast-acting form of cannabidiol that you can use almost anywhere. (Photo: Medix CBD)

Some studies also indicate that inhaling CBD can have higher bioavailability as opposed to other methods of consumption.

CBD vape oil allows for customized dosing

Certain CBD products such as gummies and capsules contain pre-measured doses of cannabidiol. CBD vape oil provides a way to customize your dosing to your specific needs. You can add your ideal amount of CBD oil to vape juice and create your own CBD vape juice. Mixing CBD oil with your favorite e-liquid is also a tasty way to enjoy your CBD vaping experience.

A person taking a CBD cartridge out of the packaging. Using a CBD vape makes it easy to customize your dosing.
Using a CBD vape makes it easy to customize your dosing. (Photo: Medix CBD)

CBD vape Oil is also widely available in customized cartridges in a variety of flavors or designed to enhance certain moods. Companies like Medix CBD offer several “mood” cartridges to create the CBD experience you desire. They are available in different dosage amounts as well, so you can always choose how much CBD you want to intake. Medix “Mood” cartridges are also compatible with most vaping devices. Nowadays, vape cartridges are standardized, so you can find a battery you like and use it with almost any brand.

CBD vape oil is relaxing

Nothing beats relaxing after a long productive day of work or play. Whether your ideal way of relaxing is reading, napping, or doing homework, CBD can promote focus and balance through its unique effects on the human body. CBD vapers can take a few puffs to help them concentrate, wind down, or have a good night’s sleep. The choice is yours!

A woman uses a vape while working on a laptop at a desk. Tailored CBD vape blends can help promote relaxation, focus, and even sleep.
Tailored CBD vape blends can help promote relaxation, focus, and even sleep. (Photo: Medix CBD)

Rather than artificial flavoring, many modern CBD vape cartridges are flavored with terpenes, which are the main building blocks of essential oils found in hemp plants. They contribute to the aroma, flavors, and even the effects of the plant. The terpenes selected in each respective cartridge can help you curate your experience, whether you want to fall asleep or feel energized.

Vaping is convenient & discreet

CBD is now used by millions of people in the United States to help them with health conditions or for preventative care. Although it is common to for people to take CBD while at work or in public, some people feel uncomfortable using capsules and tinctures around other people.

A woman leaning against a brick wall exhales after taking CBD vape oil.
Thanks to the widespread use of e-cigs, you won’t look out of place while vaping CBD.

Thanks to the widespread use of e-cigarettes, Vaping CBD is an effective way to use CBD in a discreetly. By not having to carry sublingual tinctures or capsules, you can easily take your dosage of cannabidiol almost anytime and anywhere. Studies have also shown that people who use CBD vape oil are more likely to quit smoking and become less dependent on nicotine.

The verdict: (Almost) everyone should try CBD

There is no wrong method for consuming CBD oil. No matter how you choose to use CBD, almost anyone can benefit from its healing properties. If you are someone that is constantly on the go and wants to focus, relax, or sleep better, the choice is clear. Give CBD a try — and let us know what works best for you!

 
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CBD Vaping Safety and Spagyric Extraction https://ministryofhemp.com/cbd-vaping-safety-spagyric-extraction/ https://ministryofhemp.com/cbd-vaping-safety-spagyric-extraction/#comments Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:33:54 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=58272 In our podcast, we spoke to a hemp expert about CBD vaping safety. Plus, what is spagyric extraction?

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On the latest episode of the Ministry of Hemp Podcast Matt talks to Marielle Weintraub, president of the U.S. Hemp Authority, to discuss CBD vaping safety and how the recent deaths should affect your vaping decisions.

Then Matt talks to Steve St. Clair from Enerhealth Botanical Science about the science behind an ancient form of extraction. Now, if only Matt could pronounce “spagyric” …

Editor’s Note: We’re running a giveaway with Charlotte’s Web. Enter on our Instagram for a chance to win CBD oil for your dog. -KO

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We talked with an expert on hemp quality about CBD vaping safety and hemp certification. Photo: A vaping device, including battery and cartridge of cannabis oil, in the sand at the beach.
We talked with an expert on hemp quality about CBD vaping safety and hemp certification.

More resources: Vaping and CBD safety

Here’s some more articles we’ve written about vaping and picking safe, quality CBD:

CBD Vaping Safety and Spagyric Extraction: Complete episode transcript

Below you’ll find the complete written transcript of this episode;

Matt Baum: 00:04 Hello again. It’s Matt Baum. I am your host of the Ministry Of Hemp Podcast, and today on the show we are going to be talking about another type of extraction for our extraction series. This one is called Spagyric extraction and Spagyric from Enerhealth is going to tell us all about it. But before we get to that, perhaps you’ve heard the news.

Is it safe to vape CBD?

Trump: 00:28 Vaping has become a very big business as I understand it, like a giant business at a very short period of time, but we can’t allow people to get sick and we can’t have our youth be so affected and I’m hearing it, and that’s how the first lady got-

Matt Baum: 00:42 According to the Center for Disease Control, six people have died from a lung disease linked to vaping, and a reported 380 confirmed and probable causes have been identified across 36 States and the US Virgin Islands. So today we’re going to talk about it. Let’s get into it. Is it safe to vape CBD? I’m not going to address e-cigarettes or anything else. We’re going to focus here on hemp. That’s what we do in this show.

Matt Baum: 01:13 I spoke to Marielle Weintraub last week on the subject. She was at Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore and she was running around trying to find a quiet place. I’m glad. Thank you for letting her in. She’s super smart-

Marielle Weintr: And I’m president of the U.S. Hemp Authority.

Matt Baum: 01:25 … and she’s super helpful… Excellent. And today, Marielle, we are going to talk about vaping and how dangerous it is and how many people that’s killed and when is the slaughter are going to end.

Marielle Weintr: 01:41 It depends if you put that into comparison of how many people have died from alcohol and tobacco and so on.

Matt Baum: 01:43 Right. Of course. There’s been a lot of news recently about six deaths due to somebody tampering or making their own mixtures, and this has led the Trump administration to jump on it right away because six deaths is way too many. We won’t even go into gun deaths, but six deaths is way too many, when we’ve got an outlaw flavored vape liquid and whatnot. What’s going on here? What is the real story?

Vaping and hemp product certification

Marielle Weintr: 02:13 So it’s an interesting question only because, so I’m president of the U.S. Hemp Authority. We have a certification program for hemp, hemp products, but the way our certification is set up now is we’re only certifying food, dietary supplement and cosmetics.

Marielle Weintr: 02:28 And so the reason we have not included vapes at this point is because they’re very hard to test and it’s very hard to find a good standard to compare to. So food and dietary supplement and cosmetics, we have the FDA’s code of federal regulations either 111 or 117 and so on.

Marielle Weintr: 02:49 So we have something to base our original certification on, which is basically guidelines out there from the FDA. It’s not exactly the same for e-cigs and vapes because FDA didn’t start getting involved with tobacco until I believe it was, [inaudible 00:03:10], I have to double check. I think it’s either 2006 or 2009. And then it was a few years later that they started getting involved with vape.

Matt Baum: 03:17 So the FDA waited to get involved with tobacco until it had already killed hundreds of thousands of people, basically.

Marielle Weintr: 03:25 I suppose so. Yes. But then they also waited to start regulating e-cigs and vapes as well. Even past that time. So what’s interesting here is, I’m actually worried what will happen if they do decide to outlaw flavors. Right now we’re already having an issue where we have fly by night hemp companies that are not caring about the consumer, don’t care about quality and are trying to make a quick buck and rolling out all sorts of products that may or may not be validated, may or may not be tested-

Matt Baum: 04:04 Sure.

Marielle Weintr: 04:04 … and that’s before they’re on the black market. So just because you don’t allow them does not mean they are just going to go away, and in fact I think the problem might get worse. I would rather see the FDA rollout guidelines for us, for hemp and CBD products that allow us to be more accountable, have better quality assurance, have the ability to have GMP certification, and allow us to be on the same level of dietary supplements and food companies when it comes to oversight.

Marielle Weintr: 04:35 The whole reason the Hemp Authority created a certification is because we were worried and these are big hemp and CBD companies in 2016, 2017, 2018 that were worried that someone was going to have a 60 minutes moment and what I refer to it as, and bring down the entire industry.

Marielle Weintr: 04:51 There is one or two or three groups having a 60 minute moment, and now the entire vaping industry is being looked at as terrible human beings. So we’re trying to find some in between space where we can have the ability to have quality assurance, testing, standards, things that they have where all other food, dietary supplement and cosmetics products and allow us to show how good and how much quality we can actually build into these programs.

Matt Baum: 05:23 Sure. And like you said, outlawing it is just going to make this problem worse because it won’t go away.

Marielle Weintr: 05:28 Yes, it is.

Matt Baum: 05:29 Now that people have learned how to make this stuff, they’ll just move to a straight up black market and there’s no oversight at that point. Zero.

Marielle Weintr: 05:38 And then there’s a serious lack of chemists out there too, so they think you can grab any oil, add some CBD isolet and boom, you’ve got a vape.

Matt Baum: 05:44 Sure.

Marielle Weintr: 05:44 That is not how this works.

Matt Baum: 05:45 I saw it on YouTube and it was really easy.

Marielle Weintr: 05:47 [inaudible 00:05:48].

Matt Baum: 05:50 So how do you come back then?

Marielle Weintr: 05:51 Awesome.

Vaping safety: Next steps

Matt Baum: 05:52 What do we do? I mean, especially when the people that seem to be looking into this and have the power to ban it all aren’t even talking about, well, are we talking about e-cigarettes? Are we talking about CBD? Are we talking about marijuana or are we just using the word vape? And what is the word vape?

Matt Baum: 06:11 I mean, there’s pipes that you can put actual CBD flower in or you can put marijuana in and you can vaporize that. Is that part of the issue? I mean, what do we do? How do we combat this?

Marielle Weintr: 06:25 I think we have to give companies a chance to put out quality products. I don’t know if everyone has the chance to do that because we don’t have the standards built that we need and the testing built that we need in order to assure safety in products.

Marielle Weintr: 06:42 We weren’t even allowed to do research on hemp and hemp products until the beginning of this year. So we are behind in comparison to other countries, but that doesn’t mean the other countries haven’t done research on this. In theory, vapes are different because they’re using combustion, instead of… It’s a different form of heat and a different level of heat.

Matt Baum: 07:03 Sure.

Marielle Weintr: 07:05 And so in theory you don’t have the tar and the other carcinogens that you would get for lighting something up. But what scares me last night is I’m actually at Expo East and someone pulls out a cigarette. I haven’t seen a legitimate cigarette in probably six months and goes, “Well, at least I know I’m getting with what with this.” And I was like-

Matt Baum: 07:27 Oh my God.

Marielle Weintr: 07:27 … “Wait. What? No.”

Matt Baum: 07:27 Oh my God.

Marielle Weintr: 07:32 I was like, “Okay, well, today’s a good day to quit I guess.”

Matt Baum: 07:35 Good Lord.

Marielle Weintr: 07:37 But that’s scary.

Matt Baum: 07:37 And at least you know you’re getting cancer.

Marielle Weintr: 07:37 When someone is taking, there’s so much fear mongering that someone is taking a cigarette over vape at this point, and that scares me more than just trying to find a very good way to set up quality assurance programs so that people who choose to vape for whatever reason can have trust in the product they’re vaping.

Matt Baum: 07:57 So basically you’re just saying, tell us how to be safe and we will do that. As opposed to saying-

Marielle Weintr: 08:04 Right.

Matt Baum: … nobody gets to do it. Set up the guidelines. Set up the guidelines, tell us what we need to test for, what should be there, what shouldn’t be there, and we will do it.

Marielle Weintr: 08:12 And let us prove to you that we can do it.

Matt Baum: 08:15 You have a serious uphill battle.

Marielle Weintr: 08:19 I have been fighting an uphill battle for four years.

Matt Baum: 08:24 And now let me just ask you and in your opinion. I’m not saying that you’re a doctor or [inaudible 00:08:28]. But this is purely mass hysteria, right?

Marielle Weintr: 08:34 I think the fact that it’s a certain number of people and they haven’t really seen this before… So we may or may not be mass hysteria. I do think that the hemp and CBD industries need to realize that we are all under a microphone. Anything that goes wrong is going to be picked at.

Marielle Weintr: 08:52 What’s interesting is the FDA did release a statement and in it they were talking about cigarette vaping and or cigarette e-cigs and THC, and interestingly enough they did not put the three letters that they like to put in all their warning letters now, CB and D-

Matt Baum: 09:12 Really?

Marielle Weintr: 09:12 … into that release. And I don’t know if it was left out on accident or purpose. And a lot of it they’re questioning, I guess it was vitamin E oil or whatever it is that they are questioning, and I know the vitamin E oil guys who patented this came out saying, “Well, is it synthetic vitamin E because everything we patent is organic vitamin E.”

Marielle Weintr: 09:32 So there’s questions around actual oil being used, but what we need are standards and a way for people to identify that what they are buying is real. The Hemp Authority Certification has, it’s the only third party, independent certification where there is an auditor from where food comes from.

Marielle Weintr: 09:50 They are not a part of us. They get paid a totally separate fee. They have no stake in the hemp or CBD world, and they also do certifications for groups like the non-GMO butterfly and USDA organic.

Marielle Weintr: 10:02 And we want them going in because they are using checklists and guidelines that we have put together with the help of the hemp industry and are going through the audit in the warehouses, in the manufacturing plants, on the farms. So I want people to know that when they see the Hemp Authority Certification, it wasn’t a self report that has not been validated. That’s not how we roll.

Safer CBD vapes

Matt Baum: 10:31 Is that what we’re looking for? Is that like I’m going out and I’m shopping right now. That’s what I’m looking for. I’m looking for a CBD vape.

Marielle Weintr: 10:37 You won’t find it on vapes at this point because we don’t have good standards to compare to. So that’s unfortunate. And if as soon as we are able to have a good standard and good quality assurance and good testing and good testing standards, then we’ll be able to move over to auditing vapes as well.

Matt Baum: 10:55 So what do you think the best way, if you’re going to vape CBD, in your opinion, what is the best way to buy? I mean, do you just buy it with it, look for someone who’s educated, look for someone with good test results. I mean, how do I do this? How do I stay safe?

Marielle Weintr: 11:12 I would find a company who isn’t brand new, who’s been on the market, who has a lot to lose if they put out a bad product, along those lines. So find someone who’s reputable until you can tell the new guys from the fake guys.

Matt Baum: 11:30 Got you. So the same way that like when you’re buying CBD oil, look for companies that report their lab results, look for companies that are doing it the right way, companies that have been around. I mean, we do that at Ministry Of Hemp. We have our top brands and there are people that we know can be trusted. So just look for the trustworthy people-

Marielle Weintr: 11:50 The sheer amount of research you do, consumers need to do as well, until we have legitimate quality standards, like the Hemp Authority Certification, but for vape products.

Matt Baum: 12:04 And it’s so funny because it’s like there’s, it’s tough enough for hemp right now. We’re just about to get all of this legalized. It’s the food and drug administration is finally starting to look into things and put stuff in place, and then something like this happens and it’s almost like the public was just waiting to hear that there was something dangerous about vaping and we knew it all along. There it is and we don’t care what kind of vaping it is and what it was or where it came from. We know it’s bad.

Marielle Weintr: 12:36 It has to be the fault of CBD, THC and hemp.

Matt Baum: 12:39 Of course.

Marielle Weintr: 12:40 It’s like when you’re looking for something bad, you’re going to find it.

Matt Baum: 12:43 We knew it.

Marielle Weintr: 12:44 And there are so many companies out there that are trying to do the right thing, and follow the right standards, and have quality assurance, and quality testing, and all the certifications they can possibly get. And you have a few bad apples.

Matt Baum: 12:58 Sure.

Marielle Weintr: 12:58 And this will happen in every industry. This happens in foods, this happens in dietary supplements. The problem is, is we are under a microscope and we have got to self-regulate ourselves just to avoid one group bringing down the entire engine.

Matt Baum: 13:14 So we don’t end up right back in [inaudible 00:13:16] madness. Right?

Marielle Weintr: 13:19 Yes. Let’s not do that.

Matt Baum: 13:21 Marielle, thank you for fighting the good fight and thank you for the information. I’m glad you’re willing to do that job because that sounds like a real headache, but we appreciate you coming on the show and talking with us.

Marielle Weintr: 13:32 Great. And I appreciate the amount of research y’all do. So please keep it up and if there’s anything else I can help with, please let me know.

Matt Baum: 13:37 Most definitely. I will shoot you an email. You’ve been great to talk to. So again, we’re just speaking for CBD vaping here, but on the question of is it safe? Yes. But you got to make an informed decision, you got to know where your product is coming from and there is no better place to do that than the top brands section of ministryofhemp.com.

Matt Baum: 14:02 There will be a link in the show notes to Marielle’s information. Again, she was wonderful, super informative. Thank you for that. I can’t wait to talk to her again and we will have a link to our top brands page where like I said, you can make an informed and safe CBD buying decision.

Learning about spagyric extraction

Matt Baum: 14:25 Now it’s time to put on our lab coats and continue our series on extraction, the science of how they get CBD out of hemp. And today we’re going to be talking to Steve St.Clair from Enerhealth, who is using a very interesting form of extraction that I’d never heard of. Steve, introduce yourself if you don’t mind.

Steve St.Clair: 14:47 I’m the CEO of Enerhealth, E-N-E-R health Botanicals, and we are in the herbal supplement, nutritional supplement industry.

Matt Baum: 15:00 So tell me what you guys do there exactly.

Steve St.Clair: 15:02 Well, we’ve been processing herbs for a long time, 25 years. Hemp is Just another for us.

Matt Baum: 15:09 Fair enough. Your company is using a type of extraction I have never heard of before I spoke to you. To be honest, I’m not even confident that I am pronouncing it correctly.

Steve St.Clair: 15:21 I mean, I hope I’m saying it correctly. I have no idea. Spagyrics.

Matt Baum: 15:26 Spagyric?

Steve St.Clair: 15:27 Yes. Spagyric extraction.

Matt Baum: 15:29 Spagyric extraction.

Steve St.Clair: 15:29 S-P-A-G-Y-R-I-C.

Matt Baum: 15:32 And what does that involve exactly? How does it work?

Steve St.Clair: 15:35 It’s a traditional ethanol extraction. I mean, we’ve kind of upped our game on that. It’s an ethanol extraction. We use organic ethanol. The Spagyric piece, for example, we process the herb, the hemp at room temperature basically. Under degrees. Because we feel like in our experience with working with other herbs, room temperature, just slightly warm ethanol extracts everything you want from the plant.

Steve St.Clair: 16:08 With a lot of herbs. We actually use what you call the menstruum, which is a blend of alcohol, organic alcohol and water, distilled water. Depending on the herb you work with that menstruum, it could be 60% alcohol or water, just different levels. With hemp we don’t use any water, other than the water that’s actually in the ethanol. It’s 190 proof. So it’s 5% ethanol.

Matt Baum: 16:39 So it’ll mess you up if you drink. That’s what you’re saying?

Steve St.Clair: 16:42 You don’t want to drink this. It’s completely nasty.

Matt Baum: 16:45 Fair enough.

Steve St.Clair: 16:46 That stuff will grow hair on your tongue for sure.

Matt Baum: 16:51 How come you don’t use any water in the process?

Steve St.Clair: 16:54 Well, the water solubles are not what the hemp plant is known for. It’s known for the cannabinoids. But in the process, I mean, we’re not just taking cannabinoids out, we’re also taking everything that’s in the plant. The flavonoids, lipids, waxes, enzymes, everything.

Matt Baum: 17:17 So the Spagyric extraction is better for a full spectrum basically?

Steve St.Clair: 17:23 Well, the Spagyric part of it, that’s just the first part. Just the ethanol extraction. The next part of it is, is we take the spent plant material after it’s already been, we’ve gotten everything out of it, and then we further process that and extract all the minerals and salts out of the plant.

Steve St.Clair: 17:46 Then when we have that, we recombine that with the original ethanol extract. So now you have literally everything that was in the plant back together again, but purified.

Comparing extraction methods

Matt Baum: 17:58 Sure. Let me ask you. I know a lot of companies are using ethanol extraction, but yours begins with ethanol and then it comes to the Spagyric extractions. Can you explain that for me. What’s the next step?

Steve St.Clair: 18:13 I mean, a lot of people do an ethanol extraction, but that’s where they stop. That second extraction, actually there’s two more extractions after that. Three actually. So after you finish the ethanol extraction, then you’re working with the actual plant matter.

Steve St.Clair: 18:33 And there’s a process to get the salts in a form where you can recombine it into the original ethanol extract. And what happens, that actually, that whole process when we were working with it, it actually changed my mind about, the way we actually processed herbs.

Matt Baum: 18:57 Really?

Steve St.Clair: 18:59 Yes. Some herbs are really good with the Spagyric process, some aren’t. So we actually process quite a few herbs now using this process because, it actually on your gas chromatography, your GCs, lab analysis of the product, we did a before and an after. Before this Spagyric process just the ethanol, and then after we add the salts back. Incredible difference.

Matt Baum: 19:27 Really? What kind of difference are we talking about?

Steve St.Clair: 19:30 Well, you have the gas chromatography that we used initially was, you had a left axis on your left side of the chart, you had the relative abundance of whatever was in there, and on the Y axis you had, your timestamps. So different times, different elements will show up in the chromatography.

Matt Baum: 20:03 So basically the salts-

Steve St.Clair: 20:04 And what happened was, is it sometimes some of those elements were 10 times more prevalent.

Matt Baum: 20:11 Really?

Steve St.Clair: 20:12 10 times.

Matt Baum: 20:13 And what kind of elements are we talking about exactly? Like more than the cannabinoids obviously, there’s flavor-

Steve St.Clair: 20:21 The cannabinoids as well. I can send you a chart of that. But the cannabinoids are on the retention time is what they call it on the Y axis. And cannabinoids usually show up at about 5.35 to 5.4 call it, minutes into the the test. And then you have all this other stuff.

Steve St.Clair: 20:51 You have, your oils will show up later on, and it’s just amazing. I asked the chemist that actually did it, what all those peaks were and he went, “Well, that would be a full time graduate student for the next three years.” To identify all of those because no one’s ever worked with this plan. So it was really interesting because the bench chemist that we sent it to, he’s PhD, has a lab-

Matt Baum: 21:21 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 21:21 … and all that. And when we sent it to him, he’s told me nothing would happen because that’s the salt is an inert substance.

Matt Baum: 21:31 Right. That’s why I was asking. It sounds like, no, there is little evidence that showing that adding it back in is maybe magnifying things.

Steve St.Clair: 21:40 That’s like some magic happened. So what happened was, he said, “Nothing’s going to happen, but I’ll take your money and test it.”

Matt Baum: 21:47 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 21:47 So he tested it and two weeks later he calls me up and he went, “This should not happen.”

Matt Baum: 21:54 Really?

Steve St.Clair: 21:55 “There should be no reaction. This should not happen.”

Matt Baum: But it’s not just him. This happens to other herbs you guys work with as well.

Steve St.Clair: 22:01 All the herbs. It doesn’t matter what the herb is.

Matt Baum: 22:03 Really?

Steve St.Clair: 22:04 Yes.

Matt Baum: 22:05 So how many herbs are you using this kind of extraction on right now?

Steve St.Clair: 22:08 We’re only probably using the best sellers. The herbs that we use in different blends, for example, turmeric, that’s one of the ones that is visibly stunning, because turmeric is yellow, right?

Matt Baum: 22:24 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 22:26 And then if you put… we put two one gallon clear jars next to one another. Both of them had the same lot number of turmeric, and then one we started adding the salt. And as you add the salt, the tumeric changes color from dark yellow to blood red.

Matt Baum: 22:44 Really?

Steve St.Clair: 22:46 Yes.

Matt Baum: 22:46 That is weird.

Steve St.Clair: 22:50 And I mean, it changes everything about that. How turmeric can be a little spicy and stuff. This is so smooth, it’s like, unbelievable boy.

Matt Baum: 23:00 No kidding.

Steve St.Clair: Yes. But some herbs just are not very good with this process. Some of them they become extremely bitter, extremely bitter.

Matt Baum: 23:13 Well, that would make sense. Because if you’re adding salt to flavor, it’s going to heighten flavor. And if you have something bitter, then that’s all it’s going to hit it and bam, it’s going to go through the roof. Right?

Steve St.Clair: 23:23 Not entirely true. Some of the herbs are bitter and we use this Spagyric process on it. Does it? It actually calms it down and it’s different for every plant.

Matt Baum: 23:32 So you’re messing with everything I learned in culinary school now. Geez.

Steve St.Clair: 23:35 Yes. It’s pretty wild. Well, because there’s minerals, the interaction of the minerals and the sauce with the chemical components of the plant and there’s such a wide variety that you have to expect some randomness.

Matt Baum: 23:53 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 23:53 I guess. As far as we’re concerned, it’d be random. Right?

Matt Baum: 23:56 Right. Chaos theory if you will.

Steve St.Clair: 23:58 [inaudible 00:00:23:59]. But it’s very interesting and our working hypothesis is that, the salts are actually exploding the cellular structure of the molecules.

Matt Baum: 24:14 I guess that makes sense. That’s what salt does. It reacts with the cellular walls, breaks them down and releases the liquid on the other side. Right?

Steve St.Clair: 24:22 What the working hypothesis is, it’s fractionalization of the cell structure.

Matt Baum: Fair enough. It’s the same reason salt food.

Steve St.Clair: 24:30 You’ll hear a lot of people talk about nano particles and water soluble is actually nanoized particles of CBD or whatever. [inaudible 00:24:40]. And then they encapsulate it with some emulsifier so that it… It’s a magic trick. Slight of hand. It looks like it’s water soluble but it’s still an oil.

Matt Baum: 24:52 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 24:54 Oils and water or not conducive. There’s no water solubility. It’s just you make the particle size so small, you can’t see it. And the way that they do the nanoparticles is a pretty, intense process. But the chemist that worked on this, he said, “I think that somehow it’s exploding the cell. So you have the same amount. I mean, you have the same potency, but you have a proliferation now of molecules.”

Matt Baum: 25:31 This is basically the same idea in cooking. You season a piece of protein, like a chicken or something. And then when he hits a hot pan, that salt reacts, breaks down the cell walls and the flavor grabs the salt. The liquid, pardon me, grabs the salt and pulls it into the muscle.

Matt Baum: 25:47 The same type of thing is happening here. You’re adding the salt theoretically. I’m not a scientist. But theoretically the salts that you’re heading back in are hitting the, we’ll just say cannabinoids, but I mean, everything that’s in there and literally breaking down the molecules so it delivers better.

Steve St.Clair: 26:04 Right.

Matt Baum: 26:04 And that-

Steve St.Clair: 26:05 I mean, that’s one way to look at it. But we also think that there’s actually asters being formed. Asters are something that, you have two elements and you put them together and all of a sudden you have something new. Which is, it’s a chemical reaction and we think that something along the line of what they call a Fischer esterification process has happened.

Matt Baum: 26:33 Just went over my head with that one.

Steve St.Clair: 26:36 So it’s just interesting because there hasn’t been a whole lot of research done on this particular process and what the eventual structure is one of my chemist, he has a theory that said, “Man, if we can prove this, it’s changed the world.”

Matt Baum: 26:54 Fair enough.

Steve St.Clair: 26:54 [inaudible 00:26:54].

Matt Baum: 26:56 Fair enough.

Steve St.Clair: 26:56 And from our, just our anecdotal evidence of people that have used this product. I mean, we get pretty amazing stories.

Matt Baum: 27:07 Just so we can sum it all up. From what I understand and tell me if I’m wrong. Say it again. Spagyric, spayrin.

Steve St.Clair: 27:11 Spagyric.

Matt Baum: 27:11 Spagyric. I don’t know why I can’t say it. Spagyric extraction is basically starting with ethanol to extract the cannabinoids and flavonoids and then further extracting the minerals and salts and then combining them back together.

Steve St.Clair: 27:34 Right.

Matt Baum: 27:36 Now I know. Because I was reading about it and looking at it and not that like your [inaudible 00:27:40] doesn’t do a good job as filling this out. I was just not following. It’s like, well, how is this different? I don’t get it.

Steve St.Clair: 27:47 That’s what makes our secret sauce.

Matt Baum: 27:51 Fair enough.

Steve St.Clair: 27:51 That’s what it is. I mean, it takes a lot longer to do.

Matt Baum: 27:55 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 27:56 Because we’ve got actually four extractions going on through the process instead of just one. So it’s an interesting process and it’s been around for thousands of years. I mean, it’s been around.

Matt Baum: 28:11 But obviously not using ethanol, using other types of alcohol I guess.

Steve St.Clair: 28:15 Wine. Alcohol of the day, usually wine of some kind.

Matt Baum: 28:22 I assume the potent the alcohol, the better the extraction.

Steve St.Clair: 28:25 Absolutely.

Matt Baum: 28:26 Make sense.

Steve St.Clair: 28:27 Absolutely.

Matt Baum: 28:27 Okay.

Steve St.Clair: 28:28 Absolutely. What you find with a lot of the cannabinoids, and I mean, this just kind of getting a little too deep in science, but if there’s too much water in it, a lot of those cannabinoids will fall out of solution, crashes because there’s too much water. Water and alcohol are an azeotrope, they can stick together until you take away too much alcohol and then they separate out. Right?

Matt Baum: 28:56 Sure.

Steve St.Clair: 28:57 Water crashes out.

Matt Baum: 28:59 Which is why they bind it with fat typically. And to put it into, like you said, capsules or an extract or whatever because it’s almost an oil and it’s like making a dressing. If you don’t bind it together, it’s going to separate and you’ve got your oil on top and your vinegar on the bottom.

Steve St.Clair: 29:16 There you go.

Matt Baum: 29:18 Steve, this has been great and honestly I don’t think you could have spelled that out better. Sorry, I can’t pronounce it, but thank you.

Steve St.Clair: 29:24 Hey, no problem man. It’s was a pleasure.

Final thoughts

Matt Baum: 29:37 Again, I want to say a huge thanks to Marielle for coming on and talking about vaping and Steve St.Clair for setting us straight on how to pronounce Spagyric and how Spagyric extraction works. Of course in the show notes, there will be links to his site. You’ll also find a complete written transcript of the show there for those of you who are hard of hearing.

Matt Baum: 30:00 Thanks again to everybody that regularly calls us at (402) 819-6417 with your hemp questions. We’re going to do another hemp Q and A next with Kate and I. These shows have been so much fun and I can’t thank you enough for the fantastic questions that you guys have.

Matt Baum: 30:18 You can also email your questions to matt@ministryofhemp.com or shoot them to us on Twitter, @MinistryofHemp, or Facebook\Ministry of Hemp. We love to hear from you guys. And hey, if you’re enjoying the show, please go to iTunes, go to your app, give us a rating. It really does help us to get this information into the ears of other people that want to learn about hemp.

Matt Baum: 30:41 The Ministry of Hemp Podcast is written and produced by me, your host, Matt Baum. In the meantime, take care of yourself, take care of others, and make good decisions, will you. This is the Ministry of Hemp Podcast, signing off.

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The Ministry of Hemp Podcast returns with another episode answering your hemp & CBD questions!

Our host Matt and Ministry of Hemp Editor in Chief Kit recorded another episode of questions. This time it’s mostly health questions relating to CBD but they touch on growing hemp in Texas and the dangers of buying CBD from Amazon.

Send your written questions to us on TwitterFacebook, email matt@ministryofhemp.com, or call us and leave a message at 402-819-6417. Keep in mind that phone number is for hemp questions only and any other inquiries for Ministry of Hemp should be sent to info@ministryofhemp.com.

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More resources: CBD and health

Here’s some articles we’ve written which relate to the CBD questions answered in this episode:

We also recommended products from our Best CBD Capsules and Top CBD Gummies articles, and Mr. HempFlower hemp buds.

Editor Kit and Host Matt respond to CBD questions in the Ministry of Hemp Podcast. Photo: A generic bottle of CBD oil with a hemp bud attached to a long stem.
Editor Kit and Host Matt respond to CBD questions in the Ministry of Hemp Podcast.

Hemp & CBD questions with Matt & Kit: Episode transcript

Below you’ll find the complete written transcript of this episode.

Matt Baum: Welcome back to the Ministry of Hemp Podcast. My name is Matt Baum. And I am pleased to say, I hadn’t planned on it, but I got a bunch of really good phone calls and questions from you guys. So we’re going to go right into our Hemp Q&A, part two. Once again, Kit O’Connell is going to join me in answering some of these questions. Kit is the editor-in-chief over at ministryofhemp.com, and he did a great job last time, so I brought him back.

Matt Baum: But I’m super proud of you guys. You came up with some really good ones this time. And I want to keep doing this. I want to have more of these shows. If you want to know how hemp paper is made, or what is hemp concrete, or you want to know what kind of CBD you should be taking, please call me at (402) 819-6417, and leave us a message, be sure to include your name so I know who I’m talking to, and ask away. Anything hemp related goes. And, like I said, I’d like to do one of these in between each interview episode that I’m doing. So it’s your show, please use it.

Matt Baum: But let’s get to it. It’s time for Hemp Q&A number two.

Matt Baum: Kit, welcome back. It’s always good to have you on the show, man.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, good to do this again.

Matt Baum: Yeah. We got some pretty cool questions today, most of which are sort of medically related, but, I mean, we’re not playing doctors, but I think we could help a little bit, right?

Kit O’Connell : We can offer what we’ve learned, yeah. We’re definitely not doctors.

Matt Baum: No.

Kit O’Connell : And you’re going to get tired of hearing us say this by the end of the podcast probably, because I bet we’re going to say it again. But we’ve learned a lot by working here, so we’ll do our best to tell you what we’ve heard.

Matt Baum: But again, this is not medical advice.

Kit O’Connell : Right.

Matt Baum: It’s just a friend to a friend here. Let’s get going with this first one.

CBD and the elderly

Speaker 3: Hello, I’m calling in today to inquire about an elderly woman and the possibility of how and if CBD would be helpful, and the interaction with the medications she’s presently on. She is suffering some pain at this time, and it has become a chronic issue. And she is taking tramadol for that pain. She’s only taking 25 milligrams, AM and PM. Her other medications, she is on some psychotropic drugs. She’s on Buspar and alprazolam. She is also on Namenda for memory. She regularly takes prednisone, Plavix, and Synthroid. So I’d like your input and information on the concerns about this and using CBD oil. Thank you.

Matt Baum: So it sounds like she is concerned more about drug interaction, just the way that’s she’s listing stuff off.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, on the surface, just as a general principle, obviously CBD has a lot to offer for older people. As we get older, our bodies, our aches and pains increase, and other things can come to trouble us. So in a general sense, yes, of course CBD can be very beneficial for older people.

Kit O’Connell : With the medications, something that’s starting to come out, and I have just started seeing some CBD companies add this to their website, although most of them don’t have anything about it yet, we’re still planning to write an article about it, the big thing is that there is an interaction that they’ve seen in the labs between CBD and some medications. And it’s the same interaction that we see with grapefruit. So if your elderly relative has been told not to take grapefruit because of the other medications she’s on, you should definitely talk to the doctor before trying CBD.

Matt Baum: Okay, so I remember you mentioned that last time as well. And one of the major parts was the grapefruit actually prevented CBD from having its full effect. Was that right?

Kit O’Connell : No, what grapefruit does is it prevents the body from re-absorbing the drug, so you can actually end up with too much of a medication in your system.

Matt Baum: Oh, okay. That’s right.

Kit O’Connell : Certain drugs, if you take grapefruit when you’re taking them, you may end up with basically a higher dose in your body than you want to have, because it sticks around for longer because of this grapefruit effect. What they’ve found is that, in the labs, very high doses, and we’re actually going to talk about this with one of the other calls coming up, but at very high doses, which in lab tests of CBD, they’re giving people very high doses of CBD, like hundreds of milligrams at a time.

Matt Baum: Wow.

Kit O’Connell : They have seen some interaction that’s similar to this grapefruit effect. But just because your friend is taking so many different medications, I’m just going to say, as a blanket rule, you should talk to the doctor before you start taking CBD.

Matt Baum: Sure.

Kit O’Connell : Because they’re going to know the latest research. And they’ll also be aware of, if this grapefruit effect is in play, in which case, it’s better safe than sorry. Chances are that you’re going to be taking lower doses of CBD than have been shown to trigger this, but at the same time, this is a serious effect, so you just don’t want to mess around with it if you are on one of those medications.

Matt Baum: Right. And anytime you would introduce any type of treatment into your diet or your routine, by all means, talk to a doctor.

Kit O’Connell : Absolutely. Yeah.

Matt Baum: Just be safe, you know?

Kit O’Connell : And we’re at the point now where most doctors out there, I mean CBD, they found that something, there was a Gallup poll recently that showed 14% of Americans have tried CBD products, which is a really amazing amount.

Matt Baum: That’s huge. I had no idea.

Kit O’Connell : That’s a huge amount. That’s a huge amount. And so what that means too is at this point you’re probably not going to walk into a doctor and say, “Hey, is it okay if I take CBD,” and have them be shocked or think you’re turning into a drug addict or something [crosstalk 00:06:00].

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : This is a substance that lots and lots of people have tried. And so I don’t think you have to worry in the way that you might have even five years ago about bringing this up that they’re going to be shocked. I think they’re going to be very open to discussing this with you.

Matt Baum: Yeah, the pariah aspect of it, the taboo is really gone. I think there’s been enough stuff in the news that people are starting to realize this is not an illicit drug that I’m taking. This is coming, this is here. And it’s pretty well-known at this point.

Kit O’Connell : Exactly. So yeah, feel free to talk to your doctor. And that’s definitely what we’d advise in this particular case.

Using CBD for sleep

Matt Baum: Cool. All right, for this next one, this person actually called twice. They called the first time and left this one, and then they called again and specified that they were talking about CBD for sleep usage. So I’ll just put that in your head real quick here. It’s a short call.

Speaker 4: Hey Matt, I love your podcast. I just wanted to call and ask if I should be taking full spectrum or an isolate CBD oil, and if it’s an isolate, which one should I look for? Thank you.

Matt Baum: So he had called back and said that he had been experimenting with some full spectrum stuff, but he’s specifically looking for something to help with sleep. So I’m guessing kind of anti-anxiety.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, or just, I mean, it has been shown that CBD just helps people sleep better, or some people find that they sleep a little deeper or fall asleep a little easier [crosstalk 00:07:30]-

Matt Baum: Yeah, I know, I do. Definitely.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah. So even aside from the anxiety effects, but obviously if you’re laying awake feeling anxious, you wont be able to fall asleep.

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : It does help a lot of people feel less anxious. I would say if you’re already experimenting with the full spectrum, keep doing that. You can try the isolate. Just to briefly go over if people aren’t familiar, legally, hemp-based CBD has to have less than 0.3% THC, which is of course the ingredient in psychoactive cannabis or marijuana that makes us go high. So a full spectrum CBD product has still those tiny traces, 0.3% or less, of THC in it, as well as the other naturally occurring compounds that we find in the plant, like CBG and CBN. It may have trace amounts of that. We also see broad spectrum, which is where they’ve taken the THC out, but they’ve left some of those other chemicals like cannabinoids and terpenes in. And then we see isolate, which is just CBD by itself.

Kit O’Connell : Some people do find that isolate really helps them, and it can make it easier if you’re trying to get a very specific dose of CBD. But I wouldn’t necessarily … I haven’t read anything that isolate or full spectrum is commonly better or worse for helping you sleep. One thing you might consider is there’s a lot of CBD products that come bundled with melatonin now.

Matt Baum: Yeah.

Kit O’Connell : You can find like capsules and even gummies and stuff that have the melatonin in them. And so if you’re not taking melatonin already, that can be a really great combination. I take those, I take the two together either in one thing, or I take them, a melatonin and a CBD supplement both at bedtime, and that sure knocks me out real good for the night.

Matt Baum: Do we have any links for a melatonin and CBD company on Ministry of Hemp that’s really good? Because I know I’ve seen a lot of questionable ones on Amazon and stuff like that. Do we have any links to good ones?

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, we do. And as a general rule, actually, we recommend people not to buy their CBD off Amazon. We’re going to get into that in an article coming up.

Matt Baum: Oh, boy. Yeah.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah. But in general, yeah, we do. Let’s see. Let me think about that. We’ve definitely seen a bunch of different capsules. If you look on our top capsules article, which is linked right off our CBD menu, there’s at least one or two in there that have melatonin. And also, I believe in our gummies article, we’ve got at least one, our top gummies article. We have at least one that’s like a CBD gummy with melatonin. So yeah.

Matt Baum: Cool. Very cool. All right, moving right along here. Oh, and thank you for the compliment by the way, caller. That was very sweet. I appreciate that.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, thanks.

CBD for high blood pressure

Speaker 5: Hey, I’m curious about CBD treatment for high blood pressure. I’ve heard it can help with anxiety, but does that mean it would also help with high blood pressure? Thanks.

Matt Baum: So CBD and high blood pressure.

Kit O’Connell : So that’s something I didn’t really know about until you sent me this call before we did this. So I gave it a little search, and I did find, if you look on Google Scholar, there was at least one study in 2017 where they found that CBD did seem to improve people’s blood pressure. Now, this is something I was referring to before, that when scientists do clinical studies of CBD, they’re using extremely high doses. So in this study, it was a double blind study, meaning some people got a placebo and some people got CBD, the people who got CBD got 600 milligrams of CBD in a single dose.

Matt Baum: That’s huge.

Kit O’Connell : That’s huge. That’s like … Some of the bottles of CBD, the entry level bottles of CBD, like a one-ounce bottle, that has 300 milligrams of CBD. So for some people, that’s like drinking two whole bottles of CBD.

Matt Baum: Yeah, that’s impressive.

Kit O’Connell : One of the things is like, just overall, not just high blood pressure is like, you and I and so many people have experienced great effects with relatively small amounts of CBD.

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : From a purely scientific, clinical perspective, there’s not a lot of evidence yet of why or how that’s working at those low doses. Because when there is research, they’re giving people these really high doses. And part of the reason for that is it’s just easier in research to kind of hit it with a bazooka, then try to look at whether you’re a little [inaudible] from having an effect. So you and I trying CBD over the course of weeks or months, we take a little every night and we start to sort of see these effects that are helpful for us, and maybe we feel something right away. But from research study, they just kind of want to see what’s going to happen.

Kit O’Connell : So it’s hard for me to say that taking the usual doses that you and I take, 10, 20 milligrams at a time, is that going to affect your blood pressure? I mean, maybe. It has been shown that people feel less anxious, and it does seem to help with inflammation, which can relate to blood pressure I believe. So it’s definitely something to consider. Again, as long as it doesn’t interfere with your other medications that you’re taking, I don’t see any reason not to try it.

Matt Baum: Right. It couldn’t hurt to act as a buffer if you’re already taking a blood pressure medication, for example.

Kit O’Connell : That seems like true.

Matt Baum: Right?

Kit O’Connell : Again, we’re not doctors, I’m just going to say that again, but-

Matt Baum: Yeah. We’re not doctors.

Kit O’Connell : But yeah, like I said, so there is this little bit of research that shows it works, but again, keep in mind that what we’re taking and what they’re doing in the labs are a little bit different. But it seems like it’s worth a shot to me.

Matt Baum: Yeah, it just seems to make sense. Again, consult your doctor. But if you’re less anxious, your blood pressure is lower. That is not to say quit taking your blood pressure medication, but-

Kit O’Connell : Obviously.

Matt Baum: … I would say one begets the other probably. All right, our final call here.

Health concerns: Vaping CBD and smoking hemp flower

Speaker 6: Hey Matt. First time, long time. Question: What are the health concerns of smoking hemp flower versus vaping CBD. I’ll hang up, listen to the answer. Thanks.

Matt Baum: So concerns about smoking hemp flower versus vaping CBD. I think this is a really good question, because there’s been a lot, not necessarily about vaping CBD, but vaping in the news, and health concerns about that. And is it as healthy as we think? What do you know about this one, Kit?

Kit O’Connell : I mean, it does seem to be a really fast developing area in terms of vaping. There have been a few reports lately, and there they are disturbing reports suggesting that people have gotten lung damage from CBD, or not necessarily from CBD, but just from vape cartridges. And at least some of the stories indicate that what people are taking are counterfeit cartridges that are supposed to have marijuana extract in them.

Matt Baum: Oh.

Kit O’Connell : And they’re getting counterfeit cartridges that look like the real thing, which we know are out there. Unfortunately, if you go on eBay, you can sometimes even find people selling empty boxes and cartridges that are designed to look like the name brand cartridges that you get in the legal dispensaries in places like Colorado.

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : So, unfortunately, this is one of those cases where we really need to have the regulated cannabis industry, because in the illegal states, there’s some of these counterfeit products. People still want to get high or feel the benefits of psychoactive cannabis. But it sounds like, in rare cases, they’re getting these dangerous things.

Kit O’Connell : Overall, vaping is considered, my impression that vaping is considered to be safer than smoking tobacco products.

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : So if you’re smoking tobacco, it’s a good harm reduction strategy to switch to vaping nicotine as you’re quitting. That’s pretty well-established. But as far as just the health effects of straight up vaping, there’s lots of research on both sides of it. I think this is a place where the jury is still out. I vape CBD pretty regularly, and a lot of people do find it to be really convenient. But there is this potential people are maybe running into harm.

Kit O’Connell : In the short-term, with whatever you’re ingesting, we always say to go look at those lab results, make sure there’s no residual solvents, if they’ve been tested so that they don’t have any toxins in them or funguses or bacteria, all that stuff. You want to look at the lab results and make sure you’re taking a really good pure product.

Matt Baum: Yeah, know where your product is coming from basically.

Kit O’Connell : Know where your product is coming from. And if you’re doing vaping, it might make sense to research what are the carrier chemicals that are in that vape, and just look into the research of what they’re finding about those, because there’s different additives that they mix in there to kind of make it into the vape juice.

Matt Baum: Right.
Kit O’Connell : And some of those maybe seem safer than others, but again, I think the jury is out. As far as smoking hemp flower, this is something we’re seeing. Here in Texas there’s a whole bunch of stores, we can just walk into them and buy the hemp flower these days. I got some sent in the mail for me the other day from one of the people we work with, Mr. Hemp Flower.

Matt Baum: Oh, nice.

Kit O’Connell : So definitely, we’re living in the future. You can get hemp in the mail.

Matt Baum: Look at us.

Kit O’Connell : You can smoke. And it’s kind of funny because one of the things that used to be the stereotypical newspaper article was like, “Hemp’s not marijuana. You can’t smoke it.” But of course these days lots of people are smoking it. It can be really relaxing. You don’t get high, but you do get some of those CBD effects of reducing anxiety, pain relief, inflammation relief.

Kit O’Connell : Of course, in general, research in terms of smoking cannabis in all its forms, it does not seem to be as cancer causing as smoking tobacco. It doesn’t-

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : And it may even have some chemical properties that are a little bit protective of that, that prevent that. But anytime you’re inhaling something that’s been combusted, you’ve burned something and you’re inhaling the smoke [crosstalk 00:17:12]-

Matt Baum: Right, smoke is smoke, all things considered.

Kit O’Connell : Smoke is smoke.

Matt Baum: Is it going to have as much tar and what not as a cigarette? No, absolutely not. But you’re still inhaling smoke.

Kit O’Connell : You’re still inhaling smoke. It’s not something that’s great for you. Now, it doesn’t have that addictive potential. You’re not going to … Probably no one is going to become a three-pack a day hemp cigarette smoker.

Matt Baum: Yeah.

Kit O’Connell : So you’re smoking probably less of it overall. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s safe. You are still smoking. The safest thing if you want to take CBD I think is still the eating it, or take the tincture, or whatever.

Matt Baum: Right.

Kit O’Connell : But you know. So I mean, relatively speaking, it’s never good to inhale combusted things, smoke. But on the other hand, there is some research showing that there’s less tar and that, even allowing for that, that cancer rates in heavy pot smokers, this is where it’s been researched the heaviest, we don’t have a lot of research into hemp smokers yet that I’m aware of, but there seemed to be really way less cancer incidences than they’d expect in heavy cannabis smokers.

Matt Baum: Yeah, I mean, it just makes sense, coming from a cigarette point of view, where they are loaded with a lot of different chemicals, some of which are to make you want to smoke more, I mean, people are going to smoke four or five packs of cigarettes a day sometimes and get cancer. Whereas, even the heaviest pot smokers, they’re not going through two packs of cigarettes a day probably.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, exactly. The equivalent isn’t there. There have been some studies showing that heavy cannabis smokers do still have some issues with bronchitis and stuff like that. I don’t think it’s … It’s not a one-to-one, like you’re going to get sick if you smoke cannabis, but there may be some slight increases in susceptibility to other things that are caused when our lungs are under stress. And that kind of makes sense if you think about it, so-

Matt Baum: Yeah. I mean, smoke is still an irritant one way or another.

Kit O’Connell : The smoke is an irritant, so you are taking an irritant into your lungs. On the other hand, I’m not going to say it’s safe, but there’s lots and lots of people out there that are smoking cannabis, and we’re not seeing a rapid rise in lung cancer. So take that for whatever it’s worth.

Matt Baum: So, end of the day, vaping is probably going to be better than smoking, just due to the fact that vaping is water vapor-based. And you still need to make sure you know where you’re getting your product from, so there’s nothing in there that’s nasty. And again-

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, and I would pay attention to these stories that we’re starting to see now, just to see what they come up with. It may be that people got things with bad additives or, like I said, these counterfeit cannabis cartridges, in which case, who knows what those were loaded with.

Matt Baum: Ugh.

Kit O’Connell : They could be loaded with spice or one of those really dangerous synthetics. So it’s possible that that’s what we’re seeing. We just don’t really know what’s up with that yet. Again though, obviously millions of people are vaping and we’re not seeing millions of people with this lung damage [crosstalk 00:20:04].

Growing hemp in Texas

Matt Baum: Okay, and our last question comes from Carson in Texas, and he is curious about how Texas is going to be handling THC. Here’s what he says.

“Hey Matt, my name is Carson. I’m a current hemp farmer in New Mexico, but I plan on building a hemp ‘gin,’ …” he has that in quotes, and I think that’s a separator, don’t really know, “… in Texas next year. Question: As far as I know, THC in any amount is still illegal to sell in Texas. What are hemp processors going to do with this? Do we need extraction equipment to take out the THC in our hemp? Do we have to dispose of our THC, or can we sell it to other processing facilities in other states? The main topic of these questions, what is Texas going to do with the THC regulations in hemp? Thanks for reading. Your answers would be greatly appreciated.”

Kit O’Connell : So Texas right now, as far as the farming side of things, it’s kind of in a holding pattern. Texas did legalize hemp, and what they did was say that you can have CBD products in the state, you can sell CBD products, you can even sell hemp flower products here. Under this kind of weird part of the regulation, you’re not allowed to produce or package hemp flower products here, which is a little weird, but you can still buy, and use them, and sell them.

Matt Baum: What does that mean as far as produce package? You can’t have a cigarette package basically of hemp flower?

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, well, what that means I think is that, like if I was a a hemp farmer in the future here in Texas once we’re actually growing hemp here, and I wanted to turn my hemp into pre-rolled cigarettes or joints, I might have to ship it out of state to have people roll it into joints and then ship it back.

Matt Baum: Well, that’s silly, but okay.

Kit O’Connell : Very silly, but that seems to be the one thing you’re not allowed to do here right now. But as far as the growing side of things go, we kind of don’t know because Texas has said they’re not going to let anybody grow until the USDA, the US Department of Agriculture, releases their guidelines for hemp. And that’s expected some time next year, hopefully in time for the 2020 growing season. So, unfortunately, that means … Because Texas actually has a really great growing season, and physically, we could be planting hemp in about the next month or so here, and have a fall harvest probably for it.

Matt Baum: Yeah. And you say “we” because you are in fact a Texas native.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, well, I’m not a native. I’ve been here about 20 years. And [crosstalk 00:22:27]-

Matt Baum: That makes you a native now.

Kit O’Connell : Basically at this point, I count as one.

Matt Baum: Yeah.

Kit O’Connell : And Ministry of Hemp has a few people here in Austin, Texas. And so we’re definitely looking forward to seeing hemp growing in Texas here. So that’s very exciting. But they’re kind of waiting to see what the USDA says. And obviously part of what the USDA is going to say is how farmers should handle THC. So [crosstalk 00:22:49]-

Matt Baum: And the state law should be the same as everywhere else though, 0.03%, right, theoretically?

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, 0.03%. And if you accidentally go over it, they’re probably not going to penalize you. So my impression is that the federal law is designed to give people a lot of leeway in the understanding that sometimes their hemp products do get hot, meaning the THC is high. You’re not going to be able to sell a final product like that. And if your crop gets hot, you might have to destroy it. But they’re probably not going to penalize hemp farmers who have too much THC in their crops unless they’re shown to be deliberately trying to flout the law in some way.

Matt Baum: Right. And in the last show that I did about interstate commerce actually, we talked a little bit how, even when hemp does get … pardon me, when THC levels get a little hot, we’re talking about even up to 1% is still nothing. If you look at the marijuana that’s grown for the purposes of getting high, it has sometimes up to 15%, 20%, 25% THC. So you’re not even approaching anything that’s going to be relatively close to what marijuana does at 1%. So punishing someone for that just seems ridiculous.

Kit O’Connell : Exactly, yeah. And I mean, one of the things we’re seeing in Texas right now, a weird side effect, and you talked about that a little bit on your podcast too, is that the police really can’t test accurately for THC levels.

Matt Baum: Yeah.

Kit O’Connell : What we’re actually seeing in Texas right now is that marijuana is kind of functionally decriminalized in Texas right now because the police can’t tell the difference. They pull you over and they find you with a joint or your little baggy, they don’t have any way to detect accurately if it’s hemp or THC.

Matt Baum: Other than smoking it I guess. Yeah.

Kit O’Connell : Other than smoking it, yes. Now, probably what’s going to happen is that all these police departments are going to invest in new testing equipment, but that its own whole host of issues. Obviously our hope, we support the whole plant here at Ministry of Hemp and we hope that Texas just goes the easier route and just legalizes cannabis. But that’s probably not going to happen anytime soon.

Matt Baum: No. I mean, let’s aim for hemp first, and then we’ll see what happens after that.

Kit O’Connell : Exactly. Yeah. So, but anyway, yeah, I mean, there will be obviously clear regulations for how farmers are going to handle that through processing. There’s obviously some pretty powerful lobbies on the hemp side these days making sure that farmers can smoothly handle their crops, process and extract their crops. There may be some road bumps, but I’d expect it to be handled, hopefully, in a sensible way.

Matt Baum: There just seems like there’s too much money. There’s too much money at stake not to.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah.

Matt Baum: And this seems to be one of those issues, strangely, that Republicans and Democrats can agree on, which doesn’t happen very often anymore. But when you have a guy like-

Kit O’Connell : Hemp is that issue. Hemp is that issue.

Matt Baum: Yeah. Mitch McConnell is one of the biggest proponents of hemp. He can pretty much go to hell for everything else, but I agree with him on that one thing, you know?

Kit O’Connell : So yeah-

Matt Baum: So there’s just too much money potentially at stake to not figure this out. And they’re going to.

Kit O’Connell : Exactly.

Matt Baum: And it is going to be a little difficult in the meantime. And props to you for having your hemp gin or your hemp farm in New Mexico. And I think it’s great that you want to move into Texas. But you’re going to have to pay attention, and you’re going to have to dance for a little bit until we can figure out exactly what the rules are. Now, no reason why you can’t get started in the meantime though.

Kit O’Connell : And one of the things is, as far as building things like separators and decorticators and all that, and the processing equipment needed to extract, all that stuff is going to need to be built in all the states. Right now there’s not enough of the sort of infrastructure of hemp agriculture right now, things like hemp gins. So it’s probably a great time to be doing that.

Matt Baum: It seems like everybody is just waiting, everyone is just waiting for the flood gates to open [inaudible] basically, so. And I get it, nobody wants to set up a major operation and then to have the government come in and go, “All right, shut it all down.” And then two weeks later, they go, “Yeah, it’s legal now, but you’re still in trouble for that thing that happened two weeks ago.” So it’s a sticky wicket, if you will.

Kit O’Connell : It is.

Closing thoughts: Thanks for your hemp & CBD questions

Matt Baum: Thanks a lot for your question, Carson. And thank you to everybody that had questions today. That was great. You guys are getting better and better at this, to the point where, at first I thought I might be able to just do this, and now I have to bring in help because your questions are so heady. Kit, thank you. I appreciate your help, man.

Kit O’Connell : Yeah, this was fun. We’ll do it again.

Matt Baum: Most definitely.

Matt Baum: Again, I just want to say a huge thank you to everybody that called in. These questions were fantastic. And, like I said, I would like to do this more often. So the more you call, the more often we can do these Hemp Q&A’s. Next time on the show, I’m going to be talking about spagyric extraction, which sounds like I’m making it up, but it’s a thing, and it’s actually pretty cool. So I hope you tune in.

Matt Baum: In the meantime, feel free to email me at matt@ministryofhemp.com, or give us a call at (402) 819-6417 with your questions, comments, things you’d like to hear on the show. I just want to hear from you guys. And hey, if you’ve got the time, go to iTunes and give us a rating. It really helps us get in front of other people that are looking for programming like this. Heck, if you hate the show, let me know that too. I’m not saying it’s going to change, but it’s good to know. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @MinistryofHemp, on Facebook\MinistryofHemp. And be sure to check out ministryofhemp.com, where Kit is constantly posting excellent articles, reviews of different CBD, everything you want to know about hemp, hemp culture, and where hemp is going.

Matt Baum: For now, I got to get out of here, so remember to take care of yourself, take care of others, and make good decisions, will you? This is Matt Baum with the Ministry of Hemp Podcast, signing off.

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Joy Organics CBD Vape Pen Offers Smooth, Citrus-Flavored Natural Relief https://ministryofhemp.com/joy-organics-cbd-vape/ https://ministryofhemp.com/joy-organics-cbd-vape/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:56:29 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=55535 Joy Organics CBD Vape Pen provides all-natural CBD oil in a gentle, tasty vape that is simple to operate and pleasant to use. This rechargeable vape from Joy Organics works through simple inhalation with no need to press buttons or turn on or off, which makes for a more intuitive process than many other rechargeable […]

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Joy Organics CBD Vape Pen provides all-natural CBD oil in a gentle, tasty vape that is simple to operate and pleasant to use.

This rechargeable vape from Joy Organics works through simple inhalation with no need to press buttons or turn on or off, which makes for a more intuitive process than many other rechargeable pens. We enjoyed the mild citrus flavor and smoothness of this vape and were impressed by its elegant design.

Photo: A brunette woman in an orange sweater and long pearl necklace holds an elegant Joy Organics CBD vape pen in one hand.
We were impressed by the elegant design, ease of use, and delicious citrus flavor of Joy Organics CBD vape pen. Most of all, we enjoyed its potent, relaxing effects.

Joy Organics paid us a fee and offered us free products in return for our honest opinion. If you purchase a product from one of these links, we’ll receive a percentage of sales. Read more about sponsored content on Ministry of Hemp.

Read on to learn more about Joy Organics and their delicious CBD vape.

A CONVENIENT, TASTY, HIGHLY BIOAVAILABLE VAPE

The advantage to vaping over other methods of CBD oil delivery is that the user should feel a response to the oil within a minute or two, so dosing can be very straightforward. You know if you’ve had enough to relax, feel better, or sleep deeper quite quickly. That said, if you are new to vaping, it might be a good idea to inhale a small amount at first and only hold it in the lungs for 10-15 seconds, as suggested on the box.

Even if you are accustomed to vaping, keep in mind that Joy Organics uses a distillation process that transforms their oil into nano-sized emulsions. Their CBD is more bioavailable than many other oils. This means that each inhalation goes far. We experienced relaxing effects using half the amount our reviewer generally requires.

Joy Organics CBD Vape Pen comes with everything you need to get started. The box includes a battery and a cartridge containing 450ml of CBD. We almost missed the USB charger, tucked away under the white insert in the vape’s box. This vape uses standard 510 threading, so it is compatible with your existing equipment. You can also buy just Joy Organics CBD Vape Cartridge as a refill or use it with your existing batteries.

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The Joy Organics rechargeable vape pen requires no button to press and works with a simple inhalation, similar to an e-cigarette. The vape is smooth, with absolutely no harshness, and the taste is decidedly grown-up: a faint citrus flavor with hints of vanilla.

JOY ORGANICS OFFERS ORGANIC CBD OIL FROM A RESPONSIBLE COMPANY

Joy Organics makes their CBD from industrial hemp then further processes it remove any trace of THC. Their CBD is broad spectrum and organic, using only hemp grown in the United States. All products are shipped free, and Joy Organics offers a 30-day 100% money back guarantee if you don’t find that the products work for you.

Joy Organics is a family-owned company with a commitment to giving back. They give a portion of sales to nonprofits, and offer products from charitable organizations at their retail locations.

Joy Organics also posts some of the most detailed third-party lab results we’ve seen. Both internal and third-party tests verify that each lot contains the right amount of CBD oil as well as passes pesticide tests. The third-party certificates even include a QR code customers can scan to verify the authenticity of the report.

Joy Organics offers their products online as well as at three retail locations in Fort Collins, CO, Austin, TX, and Deer Park, IL.

Joy Organics CBD Vape Pen (Ministry Of Hemp Official CBD Review)JOY ORGANICS CBD VAPE PEN OFFICIAL REVIEW

  • Highlights: Joy Organics CBD Vape Pen provides smooth, pleasant vaping delivery of pharmaceutical-grade CBD oil in one convenient, elegant package.
  • Strength: 450mg of broad-spectrum CBD oil per cartridge.
  • Price: $99.95 for a vape pen + cartridge; $79.95 for replacement cartridge only.
  • Customer Service & Shipping: 30-day money-back guarantee on all products. Free shipping.
  • Independent Test Results: Online.
  • Flavor & Feel: This vape oil and pen provides a mellow, gentle vape with a mild citrus flavor and no harshness. The effects were more relaxing than some other CBD we’ve tried.
  • Ingredients: CBD oil / Broad-spectrum Hemp extract in Organic MCT Coconut Oil, plus Added Terpenes from Fruits and Plants.
  • Other: This brand offers a generous 30-day money back guarantee for unsatisfied customers.

Joy Organics makes their products from organic hemp grown in the USA. Joy Organics is one of our Top CBD Brands. They also offer tinctures, softgels, salves, pet products, and beauty products.

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TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges Offer Pure, Smooth Vaping Experience https://ministryofhemp.com/trythecbd-vape-cartridges/ https://ministryofhemp.com/trythecbd-vape-cartridges/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:54:14 +0000 http://ministryofhemp.com/?p=55240 TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges use a specialized carrier oil designed to be free of irritants, like propylene glycol, commonly found in other vapes. They combine Colorado-grown CBD isolate with delicious plant-based terpenes.

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TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges stand out from other cartridges on the market through their high-quality components and pure ingredients.

We loved trying TryTheCBD’s delicious and effective vape cartridges. Vaping CBD is one of the most popular ways to take this beneficial supplement. However, not all CBD vapes are created equal. Some CBD vapes include ingredients like propylene glycol, which can irritate people’s throats.

TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges combine CBD isolate grown under organic conditions, with plant-based terpenes to increase the flavor and effects. Their new formula contains no propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, or MCT oil. Instead, the CBD and terpenes are mixed into a special carrier liquid called TEC Temper, which is a blend of special additional terpenes designed to reduce inflammation.

The result is an extremely smooth vaping experience, without the typical harshness that can leave your throat irritated. These vape cartridges come in a variety of flavors, each designed to mimic a popular strain of psychoactive cannabis (“marijuana”) without any THC. The result is flavorful and relaxing, without the high. We tried TryTheCBD’s Gorilla Glue #4 and loved the subtle flavor and relaxing effects.

TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges combine CBD isolate with plant-based terpenes in a special carrier fluid free of common irritants, for smooth delicious vaping. Photo: TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges and other TryTheCBD products posedaround a laptop on a wooden desk, with headphones nearby.
TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges combine CBD isolate with plant-based terpenes in a special carrier fluid free of common irritants, to create smooth delicious vaping.

TryTheCBD paid us a fee and offered us free products in return for our honest opinion. If you purchase a product from one of these links, we’ll receive a percentage of sales. Read more about sponsored content on Ministry of Hemp.

Read on for our full review of TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges, to learn more about their great features.

TRYTHECBD OFFERS GREAT FLAVORS IN AFFORDABLE, PREMIUM DESIGN

In addition to the unique TEC Temper carrier fluid, TryTheCBD Vape Cartridges offer a number of other appealing features.

These cartridges have a standard threading that fits into almost any vape battery, but inside the cartridge is anything but standard. High-quality ceramic coils and leak proof engineering make these cartridges more durable and give CBD consumers a better vaping experience.

TryTheCBD is a Colorado company that uses all Colorado-grown hemp, produced under organic conditions with no GMO ingredients. All their products are also gluten free. We appreciate that TryTheCBD makes third-party lab results available right in the product listing.

In addition, at $59.99 for 500 mg of CBD, this is a good value for a high-capacity disposable cartridge full of high-quality cannabidol.

TryTheCBD Vape Cartridge, Gorilla Glue #4 (Ministry Of Hemp Official CBD Review)TRYTHECBD VAPE CARTRIDGES OFFICIAL REVIEW

  • Highlights: TryTheCBD makes their Vape Cartridges with a specialized, terpene-bassed carrier oil designed to reduce inflammation and prevent irritation of the throat.  
  • Strength: 500mg disposable cartridge, also available in 300mg cartridges
  • Price: $34.99 – $59.99
  • Customer Service & Shipping: Fast, friendly customer service. Free shipping is available on orders over $99.
  • Independent Test Results: Online.
  • Flavor & Feel: Subtle but delicious and terpene-rich flavor profile. Gorilla Glue #4 has an earthy, faintly sweet and piney flavor. Effects are very relaxing, easing muscle soreness, chronic pain and agitation in our reviewer.
  • Ingredients: CBD isolate in TEC Temper carrier fluid, plus Botanical Terpenes.
  • Other: Available in several great flavors. We loved their “OG Kush,” too. Pre-filled disposable vape pens are also available.

TryTheCBD uses hemp grown under organic conditions in Colorado in all their CBD products. They make a full range of CBD supplements, some of which contain full spectrum CBD, including CBD tinctures and CBD pet products. Learn more about the differences between full spectrum and CBD isolate.

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