The Good Life – September-October 2021
On the cover – Below Zero Wresting, Local Hero – Dr. Nathan Kobrinsky, Hot Air Ballooning, CBD Providing a Peaceful Balance, Squirrel Hunting, Dad Life and more in Fargo-Moorhead’s only men’s magazine.
On the cover – Below Zero Wresting, Local Hero – Dr. Nathan Kobrinsky, Hot Air Ballooning, CBD Providing a Peaceful Balance, Squirrel Hunting, Dad Life and more in Fargo-Moorhead’s only men’s magazine.
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To sum it up, you can find CBD in the cannabis plant,<br />
and it can provide benefits for some individuals,<br />
like stress management, pain reduction, and help<br />
to fall asleep.<br />
In 2015 the FDA relaxed its requirements to<br />
allow researchers to conduct CBD trials. While<br />
production and sales are a reasonably new<br />
business, only becoming legal in late 2018, there<br />
is a lot of misinformation about CBD.<br />
First and foremost, CBD is not marijuana; it<br />
will not get you high.<br />
According to the World Health Organization,<br />
"In humans, CBD exhibits no effects indicative of<br />
any abuse or dependence potential… To date, there<br />
is no evidence of public health-related problems<br />
associated with the use of pure CBD."<br />
Can you become addicted to CBD? In short, no,<br />
and here's why. To paraphrase cbdhealthcentral.<br />
com – for a drug to be addictive, it has to have<br />
specific characteristics. First, it has to stimulate the<br />
brain's pleasure center – by releasing high levels<br />
of dopamine. Second, your body typically builds a<br />
tolerance to the drug, which requires that you take<br />
more and more of it to get the same pleasure or<br />
euphoric effect. Fortunately, CBD leads to neither<br />
of these conditions.<br />
Finally, another misconception is that CBD is not<br />
legal. While the government still places marijuana<br />
and CBD in the same class, it depends on whether<br />
the marijuana or hemp plant is the source of CBD.<br />
CBD derived from hemp contains no more than<br />
.3% THC and is federally legal. As a result, many<br />
people, including myself, buy CBD online<br />
and have it shipped to their homes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> benefits that come with taking CBD<br />
can significantly improve your life in many<br />
different ways. As I mentioned earlier,<br />
people use it for pain, a sleep aid, or stress<br />
management, but those aren't the only things<br />
CBD can do for you. Tinctures – which are elixirs<br />
– can promote different feelings such as focus,<br />
relaxation, and passion, to name a few.<br />
As of December 2020, one CBD product has the<br />
approval of the Food and Drug Administration; it<br />
is a prescription oil called Epidiolex. According<br />
to the Mayo Clinic, two types of epileptic seizures<br />
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