A CBD Product for Absolutely Everything You Do In a Day
From coffee to cocktails to candy, CBD is in there. Is it for you?
Devotees—from Tom Hanks and Nate Diaz to your mom to some guy in line at the brake place—swear cannabidiol can perform miracles, like easing anxiety and pain. Although there’s almost no regulatory oversight and very little solid scientific research on the stuff, marketers are hawking CBD beer, coffee, infused toothpicks, suppositories—you name it. Still, “there are a lot of companies out there delivering a safe, clean product,” says Kent Hutchison, Ph.D., founder of a University of Colorado cannabis-research center.
Cannabis contains two famous compounds: THC, which delivers the high, and CBD, which doesn’t. Both marijuana and hemp plants have CBD and THC, but hemp plants contain a very low concentration of the psychoactive stuff—0.3 percent or less—which means there’s little chance they’ll get you high. Products that contain that little are legal under federal laws and in some states, but not all. So check where your state stands.
While the hype is real, the science is less so. The bulk of studies have been done on animals, but there’s hope that CBD may help with anxiety, sleep issues, and pain. We hunted for a CBD product for almost every use and confirmed all of the ones presented here are as certifiably clean as possible, meaning they contain what they say they do.
We don’t recommend trying all of these on one day, but even if you did, you probably wouldn’t hit a risky dose. Most lifestyle products contain 5 to 25mg of CBD, and studies often use 600mg or more without any side effects (usually fatigue, sleepiness, and GI disturbances), Hutchison says. Still, it’s smart to stick to one or two areas where you want the most relief on a low-risk Saturday and see what all the buzz is about.
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