CBD Oracle

CBD for pets is more popular than ever, and a study from Canada found that most dog owners chose it for pain relief and anxiety management. However, it also showed that concerns about safety, standardization and regulation often hold people back from trying it. Hemp seems to help pets, but you need to take extra care over finding safe and effective products.

About one in 14 dogs is treated with CBD by their owner, according to a big study from the Dog Aging Project. For dogs with osteoarthritis, this increases to one in eight. The study also found significant decreases in anxiety-linked aggressive behavior. This suggests that CBD helps to ease anxiety and stress in dogs just like it does in humans. If you’re interested in CBD for your dog, the main challenge is finding a safe and effective product.

Slumber is a hemp company with a clear focus: helping you get a better night’s sleep. To that end, they offer a selection of 14 products, including six gummy formulations, five tinctures, capsules, lavender-scented pillow spray, and magnesium powder. As the company’s name suggests, their offerings are largely built around CBN, but many also contain CBD, and while most are THC-free, they have some full spectrum products too.

Growing cannabis is a great way to save money, but it also gives you unparalleled control of your experience. From choosing interesting strains with solid genetics, through to optimizing your light setup and grow environment, every step you take goes towards getting the high you’re looking for. But where should you buy your seeds from? Who takes care over the strains they carry and guarantees germination, and who just tosses whatever into a packet and expects you to pay too much?

When people argue that cannabis should be legal, they often make a comparison to society’s favored drug, alcohol. Cannabis is much safer than alcohol, people say, so why should we allow alcohol and ban cannabis? However, you can’t live in the modern world without realizing that some people will say all sorts of things regardless of whether there is evidence supporting them. So the question remains: is cannabis really safer than alcohol?

Even if you don’t support the use of cannabis use in general, that doesn’t mean the current system of dealing with it is cost-effective or moral. Many would argue that under a prohibitionist system, the costs of policing cannabis use and the disproportionate impact on communities of color far exceed the meager benefits it offers. By legalizing weed, they say, you’ll save money on enforcing what are ultimately unpopular laws and start addressing the shameful racial bias inherent in drug policing.

If you look at the criteria for drug scheduling in the US, you’ll notice that the medical use of the substance is a crucial factor. Schedule I drugs, for example, have “no currently accepted medical use” as well as a high potential for abuse. With the rescheduling process for cannabis still ongoing, lawmakers clearly see the issue with putting cannabis in this category.

One of the most common arguments in favor of legalizing cannabis is that it takes the industry out of the hands of the black market. Since this (generally) means safer products, tax revenue and less youth access, cannabis advocates often put this forwards as one of the key cornerstones of their position. But since about half of the country has already legalized cannabis, we should ask: is this really true?

As cannabis becomes more widespread in society and in many ways culturally accepted, many people are keen to point out the impact on youth. While you may think that adults should be able to use cannabis if they want to or if they have a medical condition it can help with, some people forget the impact this could have on the most vulnerable people in our society. In fact, the risks of cannabis to youth are one of the most common arguments for keeping the current approach in terms of legality.

The push to legalize cannabis ignores what for many people is a crucial issue: cannabis is dangerous and addicts its users. Just like you’d likely have some issues if someone suggested that we make cocaine available to any adult with $100 to spare, opening up trade to an addictive drug like cannabis which is not free from risk is a questionable proposal.