CBD Shamrock Shake

March 17, 2022 admin_cannabosschick Leave a Comment

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day today with this homemade, creamy, minty cannabis-infused Shamrock Shake made with wholesome ingredients like spinach, mint, vanilla ice-cream and bananas!

Let’s be real here. This is a green smoothie dressed up as a Shamrock Shake, but much healthier! The kids don’t have to know!

INGREDIENTS

1 medium frozen banana
1 cup baby spinach or cannabis fan leaves tightly packed if you are lucky enough to live in a cannabis friendly state (Alabama is NOT there YET!)
1 cup milk of choice
1 cup vanilla ice cream
½ small avocado pitted and scooped (optional)
¼ cup fresh mint leaves
1 packet of your GC CBG collagen or 2 scoops of unflavored collagen protein powder (optional)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1mL, or desired amount, of CBD

OPTIONAL – but a MUST in our house!

1+ tablespoon whipped cream
1+ teaspoon mini-chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

Add the frozen banana, spinach or cannabis leaves, avocado, mint leaves, milk, vanilla ice cream, collagen, CBD oil and vanilla extract to the blender.
Blend on high for 60 seconds, or until smooth and creamy.
Top with whipped cream and garnish with chocolate chips as desired.

Happy Pi Day!

March 14, 2022 admin_cannabosschick Leave a Comment

Top 5 Strains for National Pi Day

Grape Pie

Grape Pie is an indica dominant cross of Cherry Pie and the Gage Green Group’s Grape Stomper. Ridden with peppery, earthy and fruity primary notes, this strain offers a deliciously sour and sugary grape aroma. Users describe the high as both calming and energizing, as the THC levels tend to average in the high teens. If you’re leaning towards Grape Pie on this Pi Day, make sure you’ve got a movie picked out because you’ll likely find yourself settling into the couch for some binge-watching.

Cherry Cream Pie

Cherry Cream Pie, created by Exotic Genetix, is an indica- dominant combination of Cherry Pie and Cookies and Cream. Expect OG notes with a hint of tart and pine, followed by feelings of hunger, and relaxation. With a 27% THC content, this strain is usually recommended to the more experienced consumers. It’s also known for a strong body high, so probably best for evening use.

Blueberry Pie

Blueberry Pie is an indica-dominant hybrid of Girl Scout Cookies and Blue Dream. The two popular strains came together to create an intense, yet relaxing strain well suited for many uses. Blueberry Pie is ridden with the aromatic scent of its namesake and known to relieve stress and pain. It’s a relatively uncommon strain, but if you manage to get your hands on it, expect feelings of relaxation and happiness. Someone send me this ASAP if you find it 🙂

Key Lime Pie

This indica-dominant hybrid strain has a phenotype of Girl Scout Cookies. The strain has a THC composition of between 20% to 30%. Regardless of its name, you can expect hints of spice and musk when burning this flower. Prepare to face heavy relaxation, ideal for painkilling and minor aches and pains. This strain is somewhat rare, however, so you may have a hard time finding these greenish-purple, fur-covered nugs commercially.

Pie Face OG

Pie Face OG is a 60/40 indica-dominant strain with a sweet cherry and earth hash flavor. This strain is a cross between Face Off OG and Cherry Pie. Reported effects include mental clarity to stay upbeat and engaged throughout the day. So all of my readers who wake & bake, or social afternoon tokers with an incomplete to-do list – go find you some of this amazing strain! Regardless of its indica status, expect quick-setting feelings of euphoria, relaxation and a bit of the giggles from Pie Face.

CBG: The New Kid On The Block

February 4, 2022 admin_cannabosschick Leave a Comment

While we’ve all been busy obsessing over CBD, there’s another phytocannabinoid (spoiler, there are at least 120 of them) over on the sidelines being like “hey guys, I’ve been here this whole time, too.”

©Rick Proctor

Seriously though, it’s time to take a good hard look at CBG. Yes, it’s true, research is painfully and frustratingly limited in the cannabis compound world (thanks for nothing, prohibition!) but the evidence that is there for CBG — cannabigerol — is riveting. No seriously. We know “riveting research” may seem like an oxymoron unless you’re a PhD candidate, but check it out.

What is CBD infographic, showing information about CBG

CBG is also non-intoxicating.

Like it’s phytocannabinoid pal CBD, CBG is not known to be intoxicating whatsoever, meaning no high for the end user who may want to use this as an isolated compound/plant-based medicine.

CBG can do things that CBD can’t.

We’re looking at you, intraocular pressure relief! While there hasn’t been conclusive evidence, some lab rats received a nice bit of glaucoma treatment from CBG. The exciting part about this is that CBD doesn’t relieve intraocular pressure — only THC has done that so far. So, combine the aforementioned note (no high!) with this one (glaucoma relief!) and you have a promising treatment for those who want to use cannabis medicine for a serious disease, without getting stoned.

CBG has overlap with CBD.

There are several things that CBG has in common with CBD, including its purported abilities to alleviate anxiety, reduce inflammation, fight cancer, and treat neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s disease. However, it may treat these conditions in a different way than CBD does. Specifically, CBD works on anxiety via a serotonin receptor, whereas CBG inhibits the reuptake of GABA. Both have similar results (anxiety relief) but their methods are completely different.

CBG could be a serious antibacterial agent.

It’s showing serious promise for a gnarly type of infection: MRSA. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus is nothing to mess with, and it’s difficult to treat with antibiotics because as you may have guessed, it’s resistant to methicillin (a common type of antibiotic). Some studies are showing that CBG kicks MRSA ass, so that’s exciting.

CBG is the parent of CBD and THC.

As the cannabis plant grows, the compounds change and evolve. CBG is the “stem cell” for CBD and THC, so it’s an important cannabinoid!

This all sounds great, right? Well here’s the catch (because of course): CBG is only found in trace amounts. Small, but mighty it is! So, in order to get enough CBG isolated for scientists to study, it’s going to take a lot of work — and a lot of hemp.

SHOUT OUT to the R&D team at Green Compass for growing and collecting enough CBG to add it into our new USDA organic CBG collagen product! Y’all are amazing!

CBDA 101

January 25, 2022 admin_cannabosschick Leave a Comment

Hey hey y’all! Happy Tuesday!

I am so freaking excited to share a new molecule with you…CBDA!! If you have been paying attention to my social media posts the last few weeks, you know that CBDA has been found to provide your body some AMAZING benefits — especially with all these cooties flying around.

Cough, cough: These compounds can be taken orally and have a long history of safe use in humans,” van Breemen said. “They have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection by SARS-CoV-2. CBDA and CBGA are produced by the hemp plant as precursors to CBD and CBG, which are familiar to many consumers. However, they are different from the acids and are not contained in hemp products.”

SUMMARY SENTENCE from NIH Cannabidiol Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response: Cannabidiol from the cannabis plant has potential to prevent and inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection

I am NOT a medical professional so I will not make any claims, but the links below are all legit sites where you can read the full articles and breakdown on the benefits of CBDA. I am just here to give you the 101 skinny!

* Always consult your physician before using any CBD products. These products are not approved by the FDA, and not intended to diagnose, treat, mitigate, cure or prevent any disease.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT:

My TED Talk

January 20, 2022 admin_cannabosschick Leave a Comment

Have you tried CBD but “it didn’t work”?

Let me explain AND also help you get the best bang for your buck!

It’s all about quality of the hemp extract (CBD) and bioavailability, meaning how much your body absorbs and consistency. The higher the absorption, the more benefits your body receives!

Most “gummies” on the market are not giving you the benefit you think. They have tons of sugar & artificial flavors & ingredients. And when you eat a gummy, it travels through your digestive system and liver and any CBD is filtered and stripped out. Your body only absorbs about 5% of that CBD making it a very expensive fruit snack.

Our USDA organic, nanotechnology, water soluble jellies, have nothing artificial and no fillers and have more than 10x the absorption rate of gummies on the market. They are equivalent to our tincture absorption.

When it comes to a tincture, MCT (medium-chain triglyceride) coconut oil has the highest absorption rate (by far!!) over any other carrier oil. You can google this and read about it in many places.

Here’s the really big difference!

Our CBD is ONLY extracted from the hemp flowers!

That is where the purest, highest quality CBD is located. If your bottle says “aerial parts” that mean it’s the entire plant- stem, seeds, stock, leaves (sometimes even the weeds around the plant) etc, which produces more quantity for a company’s bottom line, but much less quality for the consumer as it’s now diluted down with fillers. And is also most likely thick, brown or amber (I’ve seen milky white too) and tastes terrible most of the time.

Many of my customers who switch to us and are pleasantly surprised at how light, airy and good tasting our products are and are able to use less because of the purity and higher absorption. Thus saving money them money! Plus, if your bottle is really inexpensive you may have other issues to worry about.

Which leads me to…

Tip #2867 – Always check the COA (certificate of analysis) to make sure the amount of CBD they say is on the label and it’s tested for pesticides, heavy metals and all kinds of contaminants! Your brand’s farm might be free of these things, but what happens when the neighboring farm’s rain drainage goes into their crop?

Today’s education brought to you for National CBD Month.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

Now click on this link to watch Dr. Rachel Knox TEDtalk about The Endocannabinoid System and why our body loves and NEEDS the cannabis plant!

Curaleaf Pays Out For Tainted CBD Products

January 18, 2022 admin_cannabosschick Leave a Comment

CBD is a dicey subject because of laws relating to the legality and sale of products. This extends to most retailers as no regulation exists federally, and is not always followed by states.

CBD products

THE SKINNY: The Massachusetts-based company Curaleaf, which also operates out of facilities in Oregon and as well as being on the Canadian stock exchange as CURA, found itself in hot water this year with 10 lawsuits waged against it for selling tainted CBD products. How were they tainted? They contained a large dose of THC, which was not listed on the packaging, and not a part of the marketing for the products. Curaleaf paid out $50,000 to settle one of it’s cases in September 2021.

Though Curaleaf did pay out, it did not see fit to formally apologize.

The September 2021 Plaintiff is not the only person to have an issue. At least four others had to be treated in an emergency room after using the same tainted CBD products. The Spetember 2021 case was the only one where the terms were made public, but nine other cases total have been settled by Curaleaf for its tainted CBD products. #MINDBLOWN

The problem with the CBD industry

The main issue with the CBD industry at large, is that it’s not federally legal, and therefore not federally regulated. The reason CBD is technically illegal for food, as a supplement, or a non-prescription medicine, is that CBD is already the active ingredient of an approved pharmaceutical medication (Epidiolex), and under US law, once a compound is an active ingredient in an approved medication, it can no longer be marketed as a dietary supplement, or be used in food products. Therefore the CBD industry in the US at large (with a few exceptions), isn’t legal, and products on the market are not being regulated for what is in them.

There is a lot that’s said about the growing cannabinoids industry in the US, which includes CBD as well as minor cannabinoids like delta-8 THC, THCV, and HHC. There is increasing wariness of the industry, and for good reason, as it operates 100% as an unregulated black market, selling products outside of legal dispensaries, offering illegal merchandise online, and creating black market testing facilities to give the illusion of regulation, though these have repeatedly shown to be scams.

If this is the best we can expect out of a legal company, it really doesn’t imply anything good about any other company not working within legal parameters.

What this means is that there are substantial problems with getting things done properly in the cannabis industry. Whether this is because companies don’t have the money to pay out to testing facilities, whether bribes are being made to pass products illegally, or if this simply represents greed by large companies (we see this literally all the time), is hard to say. But when the legit industry starts looking like the black market, you know there’s definitely a problem.