An increasing number of people are learning about the benefits CBD has for your health. However, not many people realize that how you consume CBD will affect how you feel those benefits. The most common way to consume it is to use CBD oil, but you can also eat it in an edible, drink it in a beverage, vape it, or apply a topical to your skin.
One of the best ways to take CBD is to smoke the hemp flower. Refining and extracting the plant into an oil results in a loss of some of the chemical compounds in hemp, and you won’t get the full benefits that hemp can offer. Smoking hemp offers many of the same benefits as smoking marijuana, but it is fully legal to purchase and consume.
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#1) Feel the Effects Quickly
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Perhaps the best reason to smoke hemp flower for its CBD is because it is the fastest way to feel the effects. Since you inhale the smoke into your lungs, the chemical compounds are absorbed into your lungs, where they get into your bloodstream quickly. In fact, depending on the individual’s biological response to CBD and the specific strain of the hemp flower, you can feel the effects in as little as five minutes.
In comparison, other methods take longer. When you take CBD oil sublingually, you can feel the effects in approximately 15 minutes. Drinking or eating something with CBD in it can take up to an hour. Using topicals can take around an hour as well. This can be a big difference if you are taking CBD for health reasons, and want to feel the effects as soon as possible.
#2) You Won’t Feel High
One of the other good reasons for smoking hemp is that it doesn’t make you high. Hemp on its own does not have any psychoactive properties like other compounds in cannabis do. The most well known chemical compound in cannabis is Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which has the strongest psychoactive element and makes you feel high.
While THC has health benefits that you can’t get from CBD or other cannabinoids, the fact that it makes you high also carries some risk. If you live somewhere that has more strict laws and regulations on the use of marijuana, THC will be the reason. If you want most of the same benefits of smoking marijuana, you can get them from smoking CBD without getting high.
#3) The Entourage Effect
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The other big benefit of smoking hemp is that you get all of its natural chemical compounds, such as cannabinoids and terpenes. When CBD is made into oil, which is the form it takes before being added into other products, it goes through a refinement process, and some compounds are eliminated. Depending on how much refinement it goes through, you can wind up with a lot less.
There is a good reason why you should want to take as many of the compounds together at once — it is called the entourage effect. This is a phenomena observed through clinical research, where taking multiple cannabinoids together results in their effects being boosted compared to if you take them separately. Smoking the hemp flower means you get the best of all the compounds it contains.
#4) Can Help You Quit Nicotine
If you currently smoke cigarettes and want to quit, then smoking hemp for the CBD may help with that. CBD has been shown to help reduce nicotine withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Both are major issues that people addicted to nicotine have to fight when they try to quit.
There’s also the comfort that comes with the act and habit for smoking. If you like the social aspect of smoking, you can still join in with hemp cigarettes as you try and quit nicotine.
#5) Reduce Pain and Inflammation
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When you smoke CBD, it enters your bloodstream quickly, and the compounds bind to the receptors in your endocannabinoid system (ECS) in your nervous system. The ECS regulates many different bodily functions by sending signals via hormones and neurotransmitters throughout your body. One such bodily function is the pain signals that are sent through your body as a response to pain and inflammation.
When you smoke hemp, the CBD is absorbed into your system and makes its way to the ECS. The CBD then binds to special receptors, and as a result your system sends out fewer signals for pain and inflammation. As a result, you experience pain less intensely, and your inflammation is reduced.
#6) Reduce Stress and Anxiety
The other well-known property of CBD is that it may help calm you down and improve your mental health. This includes reducing your levels of stress and anxiety. It all comes back to the endocannabinoid system, which regulates bodily functions beyond just pain. It also regulates the release of hormones and neurotransmitters, including those that affect your mood. When you take CBD, it suppresses the production of cortisol, which is a stress hormone that increases as you feel more anxious.
While these are all great reasons to smoke hemp, it is worth noting that there are still some risks associated with it. Hemp is not addictive, it won’t make you high, and its side effects are minimal to non-existent. However, the act of smoking still involves inhaling ash and carcinogens. This can do damage to your mouth, throat, and lungs over a long period of time if you do it regularly.
The best way to take advantage of smoking CBD is to use it situationally, such as when you need to feel the effects of CBD very quickly, and as potent as possible. You may be having a flare up for a chronic pain condition you have, or you may be feeling very stressed. The rest of the time you can take regular CBD oil, which is safe and easy to use and still has many of the same benefits.
