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CBD Topical Medicine: What Does the Science Say?

Project CBD

Such products rely on chemical enhancers (called excipients) like ethanol, propylene glycol, oleic acid, and even terpenes to help cannabinoids sneak past the skin barrier and into the bloodstream. New clinical trials are urgently needed, they repeat in a familiar refrain.

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Cancer patients medicate with cannabis with or without clinical trials

Cannabis Life Network

Clinical evidence, however, has yet prove that cannabinoids, terpenes, or cannabis treat cancer. With or without clinical trials, though, cancer patients who medicate with cannabis remain optimistic in Canada and The Netherlands. (1, 1, 2) Before legalization in […].

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Terpene Spotlight: Nerolidol

FloridaMarijuana.net

In 2017, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a statement that the use of cannabis for the treatment of pain is supported by “well-controlled clinical trials and that there is substantial evidence that cannabis is an effective treatment for chronic pain in adults.”.

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Best strains and terpenes for creativity

The Cannigma

We also don’t know which, if any, terpenes have an effect on creativity. The best strains for creativity are Type II, with a balance of THC and CBD and a terpene profile that includes pinene, linalool, and beta-caryophyllene. Best terpenes for creativity. 19 Eucalyptol (a.k.a. Best strains for creativity.

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Best strains and terpenes for focus and flow state

The Cannigma

There is certainly some evidence that cannabis may be helpful with increasing focus, in the right dose with the right terpenes and cannabinoids. The best weed strains to help you focus have a balance of CBD and THC, are energizing and stress-relieving, and have a terpene profile that includes pinene, linalool, or beta-caryophyllene.

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South African Research Team Says Cannabis is ‘Very Promising’ as an Opioid Replacement

Veriheal

Clinical trials into cannabis’ potential as an opioid replacement are well underway in South Africa. Quite frankly, the clinical trials couldn’t have come at a better time. What’s more, the soon-to-be-introduced strain is laden with myrcene and beta-caryophyllene terpenes.

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Terpene Enhanced CBD Isolate: The Next Big Breakthrough In CBD

Otherside Farms

CBD isolate is the perfect example of the absence of the entourage effect, and that’s why people are beginning to enhance it with terpenes. The second most talked-about aspect of the entourage effect is how it is affected by terpenes. Alpha-pinene is a terpene commonly found in cannabis and is said to inhibit acetylcholinesterase.