Boomers Fuel Boom in Popularity of CBD
The ingredient from marijuana flowers shows promise for age-related health conditions
by Garrett Schaffel, AARP, June 7, 2018 | feedback: 0
Boomers are looking at CBD oil for discomfort management and other medical issues.
En espanol | purekana Nancy Giacobbe has been a medical cannabis cardholder because the legalization of medicinal utilization of the plant in Ca in 2008. But in 2014, her husband Chris had sleep problems as a result of painful spasms and tremors brought on by treatments for an uncommon kind of cancer tumors. While Giacobbe, 61, had utilized the plant because of its psychoactive properties (i.e., the high created by tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC) she quickly saw the medicinal great things about the plant’s other, lesser-known ingredient — cannabidiol, or CBD — when Chris started to put it to use for their discomfort. […]