Cannabis 101: CBD vs
THC
Hi everyone and welcome to a new series
of articles on Cannabis.
Sometimes referred to as Mr. CBD by fellow citizens and neighbor that
know me professionally, I am a huge fan of everything called cannabis (marijuana)
and CBD from hemp ‘the wonder plant’. I
think that these magnificently odd-looking wonders of nature are the most
proficient, resilient, productive, efficient, sometimes life-saving and surely joy-giving
on the Planet.
It can be used medicinally as much as recreationally and for those who decides
to get involved in any aspect of the cannabis industry, from marketing to
selling or growing and counselling, will soon discover that it is a golden opportunity.
In effect, according to Statistic Canada, monthly sales of cannabis just
recently surpassed 100 M$ in sales. I
have no stats for total yearly sales or sales projections yet for Canada, but
in the USA, sales are expected to grow from half a billion$ in 2018 to 1.8
billion$ USD in 2022. So, figure it
out. No wonder there is a such a huge
rush to get into the field while the wave is still cresting.
Did you know that before 1937, the year of the Marijuana Prohibition,
American medical doctors had already handed out more than 3 million
prescriptions for medical cannabis?
Did you know also that marijuana was smuggled into the US in massive
amounts by people fleeing the 1931 Mexican Revolution thus flooding the
American market? The drug was then so
abundantly available and overused in certain ‘milieu’ that it quickly built up
a bad reputation and soon became associated with the bad elements of society and,
believe it or not, ‘Jazz’. This could
explain the resistance back then from the public to that ‘genre’ of music.
There is so much to be said about cannabis and hemp that it would take
months to even come close to cover what needs to be said about those wonderful
plants. I will of course take care of
that in subsequent articles in Nation Valley News.
In the columns to come, I will cover how I came across cannabis and
relay my own positive experience with CBD and how it literally changed my life
for the better. I will of course also cover
extensively and in layman terms what is cannabis and what is hemp, where they
come from and their medical applications.
Thanks to the magic of digital publishing, I will also be able to add
visual aids to my presentations, making them more exciting and efficient in helping
you increase your knowledge of the subject.
For those of you who already had a brush with cannabis know that it can
be extremely confusing to try to make heads and tail and differentiate CBD from
THC, cannabis from hemp, cannabis from marijuana, what can make you ‘high’ from
what can heal you. CBD for instance will
never make you ‘high’, but THC will.
This field is growing at such an alarming speed that people like me who read
just about everything that is published on the subject can hardly maintain the beat.
So, I will do my best to keep you up to
date with current information and the latest developments.
I encourage you to email me any questions you might have on cannabis,
request more explanations or share a success story with other readers at: drpierremilot@mail.com
I’m very excited to pass along my knowledge to you and answer your
questions. It will be a fun ride for me
and I hope it will be one for you too.
Talk to you soon.
Dr.
Pierre Milot. Ph.D., Ph.D. (tc)
Life
Transition / Grief Recovery Counselor
Certified
Medical Cannabis Counseling / Sales
Chair for
Eastern Ontario Chapter of Dying with Dignity
Tel: 343 549 1650
E-mail: drpierremilot@mail.com
Website: http://www.coaching4life.ca
Blog: www.coaching4stress.blogspot.com
