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Regarding the hemp article:
Lots of people are taking this the wrong way. Even I thought "Hey, I use CBD daily, I'm protected!"
It's not that simple. CBDa and CBGa cannabinoids are typically destroyed in the high-heat process needed to to convert the raw form of cannabis or hemp into liquid tinctures, edibles, etc.
I looked up the purity report on the product I use (Spruce CBD) and those two cannabinoids were "not detected."
I think a lot of people think that simply because they vape or smoke, they're protected. As far as smoking, if a high-heat reaction destroys CBDa and CBGa, then a combustable process like smoking is probably going to do the same thing. Then, with vaping, you're talking about the raw form of cannabis that has gone through a high heat process to turn it into a liquid oil form; I'd suspect that it also loses those cannabinoids.
I assume that the conversion process can be tweaked, because this guy on Twitter talks about his particular CBD oil containing those cannabinoids.
Give this thread a read: https://twitter.com/chey_cobb/st…
All that said, it's exciting to see the potential in a growing cannabis market in which we can extract compounds that help us and add to the agricultural reinvigoration that's taking place in the US with the growth of cannabis. I just don't know how far off they are from making this useful.
TL;DR - Just because you use oils or get high all the time doesn't mean you get the benefit of CBDa and CBGa cannabinoids. But it'd be a lot cooler if we did.
