30 Real, Good Reasons CBD from Hemp Is a Better Investment than Recreational or Medical Marijuana
Why growth of CBD is likely to outpace the more glamorous segment of the country’s fastest growing industry.
The legal marijuana industry is the fastest growing industry in America. So say the headlines. It’s being called America’s billion dollar crop. (Actually, the US market is predicted to swell to over 7 billion in 2016.)
Most of these headlines use the term “marijuana” rather than “cannabis” because medical and recreational marijuana are extremely hot topics. But, in truth, the actual market for medical cannabis derivatives includes cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid molecule of high interest which can be extracted far more efficiently from Marijuana’s less glamorous sister, agricultural hemp.
The most important distinction between marijuana/THC and hemp/CBD, is that, whereas THC gets people stoned, hemp CBD, on the other hand, has no known side effects and can be consumed all day long without making users the least bit giddy.
Although medicinal hemp derivatives hold...
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