As more and more people embrace CBD, replacing their pharmaceutical medications with it in their medicine cabinet, the senior citizens among us are also benefitting from its medicinal effects.

CBD is short for Cannabidiol, one of the compounds in cannabis and hemp that is alleged to have medicinal value. People who want to feel calm, need pain relief, or help to sleep, use CBD. When most people think of cannabis, they think about getting high, but that’s down to another compound in the plant called THC. However, these days, cannabis compounds are isolated and extracted separately, meaning one can choose the great medicinal effects of cannabis but without the stoned sensations and disorientation.

A recent Remedy Review study of 1000 people aged 55 and over who used CBD came back with some interesting results. While the study found that only 9 percent of the seniors surveyed use CBD, at least 51 percent of that 9 percent reported “improved quality of life” overall. The survey also looked at the preferred delivery method for CBD for seniors and found that CBD Oil Drops were the most popular.

54.4 percent of participants preferred taking CBD drops on the tongue. 21.1 percent preferred to put those drops in their morning coffee or other beverage. While another 21.1 percent like to take their CBD in an edible form such as CBD gummies. 15.6 percent favored CDB Capsuless and pills. And just 10 percent of the people surveyed said they liked to smoke or vaporize CBD.

The statistics on the reasons why seniors take CBD was also interesting. 42 percent said they took CBD for inflammation. Just around 41 percent said they took CDB to help with chronic pain. 38.6 percent use it to try and get a good night’s sleep. And 31.8 percent said they use CBD for arthritis pain. Interestingly, around 61 percent of the seniors who tried CBD said it helped to ease pain, while about 46 percent said it aided them with a good night’s sleep.

Most seniors prefer to take CBD oil under the tongue

This study, while not conclusive in any way, does show that CBD could be a great option for seniors, and could cut out some of the toxic pharmaceutical medications from their daily regime. As we get older, many people have the need for multiple regular medications.

Some seniors need to take pain killers including opioids regularly, while others will also need to take pills for blood pressure, inflammation, insomnia, and even anxiety. CBD is organic and non-toxic; it’s also non-addictive and carries no dangerous side effects. It’s also an excellent option for senior citizens as it is readily available and comes in many different, easy-to-use forms and delivery systems.

CBD is thought to help with a number of age-related issues like pain and insomnia. It’s also used as a non-toxic and effective stress reliever that can be used much like a Rescue Remedy. Those over the age of 60 can tell you a thing or two about pain and what that’s like to contend with on a daily basis.

Research shows that roughly 50 percent of seniors and the elderly live alone, with around 80 percent of those in care homes suffering from daily pain. Pain in the elderly is severely undertreated these days, and that just compounds an already existing issue. The constant pain also leads many seniors down other paths such as depression, anxiety, and mobility problem.

Tragically, many older people don’t even report pain to their doctor as they just assume it’s part and parcel of the aging process. That means that many older adults just suffer in silence and get depressed as their quality of life plummets. That’s why CBD is such a great option for seniors and is well worth trying just in case it does the trick.

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It is indeed, Happy (Founding) Father’s Day, as I just learned some great news for all those who are waiting for it. It slipped under the radar last month, but the United States Department of Agriculture just descheduled tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
The USDA issued a bulletin on May 28 as a legal opinion for hemp production. It basically authorizes interstate delivery of hemp and legalized THC derived from hemp.
First, let’s address the interstate transportation or shipment of hemp.
Up until December 2018, hemp was considered illegal like cannabis, but the 2018 Farm Bill legalized it. However, it still couldn’t cross state lines. So, farmers in states where all forms of marijuana were illegal could grow hemp but then had few options to sell their crops. Farmers such as the ones in Kentucky who had pushed Senator Mitch McConnell to get the Farm Bill signed in the first place.
Now they can sell those crops to producers in other states or at least extract the hemp oil and sell that derivative product.
This solves the farmer problem for McConnell who was getting backed into a corner to figure out how to help these individuals sells their hemp crops. Happy Kentucky farmers means reelection.
The second item within this USDA bulletin is the subject of THC, which is the part of the cannabis plant that produces a psychoactive response in the brain or the feeling of getting high. The bulletin was in response to the 2018 Farm Bill and it read, “By amending the definition of marijuana to exclude hemp as defined in AMA 297A, Congress has removed hemp from schedule I and removed it entirely from the CSA (Controlled Substances Act). In other words, hemp is no longer a controlled substance. Also, by amending schedule I to exclude THC in hemp, Congress has likewise removed THC in hemp from the CSA.”
Typically, cannabis plants can produce buds or flowers that have a high level of THC. Hemp plants tend to have very little THC in them. However, that doesn’t mean there is no THC or that the hemp plants couldn’t be modified to contain more THC.
Mark Singleton, the owner of Singleton Investments said, “This removes the argument of .3% THC.” He is referring to the designation that hemp-derived CBD is legal as long as there is less than .3% THC. If hemp THC is legal then it doesn’t matter whether it is .3% or not.
Let’s step back for a moment and review this .3% line in the sand for cannabis.
The .3% level is a designation for which there is little information as to how that number was determined. It is often referred to but there is little documentation as to how regulators arrived at that level.
One historian said that at one time a study was done to determine at which point people got high when consuming cannabis and that .3% was the midrange and thus it stuck. Some people needed less and some didn’t get buzzed until it was more than .3%, so the scientists just picked the middle point and called it a day. Random and possibly no longer true.
Anyway, there is some debate now over this USDA bulletin and whether the words “in hemp” mean THC can’t be extracted from hemp because then it would no longer be in the plant. Several people have suggested that the phrase hemp-derived products covers hemp extractions even if it includes THC. It’s a new bulletin and is sure to be tested very quickly.
Singleton believes that THC derived from hemp will quickly become popular and farmers will set up extraction facilities within their states and begin shipping across state lines. “It solves McConnell’s problem. He’s got the largest plant extraction facility in the entire country. Located in Kentucky,” said Singleton, who says he’s on McConnell’s speed dial.
If hemp-derived THC is now legal and can cross state lines, it will be close to impossible for law enforcement to determine the difference between cannabis-derived THC and hemp-derived THC. This USDA bulletin could have effectively descheduled cannabis. Singleton believes Congress will be forced to act quickly to legalize cannabis since the USDA has jumped the gun.
In May, New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer introduced a bill, HR2843, in both Houses removing cannabis from the CSA and it included a social justice component. “I believe this bill will have at least 100 co-sponsors by June 15 and has the best chance to get passed,” said Singleton. “If the Safe Banking Act doesn’t get passed first, then I think this one will. I know the cannabis industry wants the States Rights Act passed, but it’s going nowhere. These have the most support.”
Indeed, no one in the cannabis industry expected the USDA to be the ones to legalize THC and it looks as if this is the next domino to fall.

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