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E-spliff on sale in UK designed to relieve pain minus the high

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 08/20/2015 - 08:45

IT IS the first time I’ve been sent cannabis through the post but I’m unfazed – I’m probably not doing anything illegal.

My delivery is a MediPen. It’s an e-cigarette made using a strain of marijuana high in cannabidiol (CBD), the compound thought to give cannabis its purported medical benefits, and low in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the one that gets you high.

It’s not the first low THC e-cigarette in the UK – a similar device called KanaVape has been on sale since last year – but MediPen is the first designed to give a high dose of CBD. It contains hemp oil imbued with 20 per cent CBD compared with KanaVape’s 5 per cent.

Therefore puffing on this is more likely to deliver benefits – at least that’s the claim. Researchers warn that there is no way to know for sure how much CBD any of these products contain,...

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