Why Cannabinoids are so Important for Humans

I explain the role of hemp and CBD in human nutrition.You can read more in my book Food for Consciousness. http://www.edenicstates.com/product/food-consciousness-book/.

 I will be back soon with news of our crowdfunded hemp farm. 

The Hemp Revolution

1995 documentary

CBD Hemp Oil the story of Weed and Cannabis madness

hemp fields Devon England  summer 2014.

Just enjoyed re-watching  Dr Sanjay Gupta's excellent documentary series on the development of  medical marijuana, focused in the United States but also visiting GW pharmaceuticals, the producers of Sativex in Britain, in what looks like Wiltshire. We meet the handsome well educated clean cut Stanley brothers in Colorado who developed the strain Charlotte's Web named after the little girl with epilepsy whom they helped. The various medical uses for cannabis are explored including the most common one - pain, also, MS, Alzheimers, PTSD, epilepsy, and helping cope with chemotherapy. It looks at the long term effects on the brain too, very different to the effects of high THC recreational strains.








Traditional, natural hemp in Britain had  lower THC levels than  the strains recreationally in use today. High CBD low THC strains are seeing a  resurgence, for specific medical conditions and also general health.  Our CBD oil is made from hemp grown in our fields in Devon UK. We include our cbd oil as a regular part of our daily diet for general health and wellbeing.

Why do cannabinoids make such a profound difference to our health and wellbeing? ?

Cannabinoids are very similar to a group of chemicals in the human body which regulate the way the body runs and remains healthy. For historical reasons these endogenous (originating within) compounds have been named endocannabinoids. The reason is that they were studied in the cannabis plant before they were identified in the human body. Cannabinoids from the hemp plant latch onto the same receptors sites as the endocannabinoids produced in the human body, so create a similar effect and help regulate the bodily systems in a very beneficial way.

hemp harvest

On arriving home, a neighbour remarked on the visibility of the large amounts of plants in the back of the car.  I am not sure he believed me when I told him it was hemp grown with a licence.  Of course it is. Our CBD rich hemp oil is here:
http://foodforconsciousness.co.uk/product/cbd-enriched-hemp-in-avocado-oil/
Here we are harvesting some hemp in Littlehempston, Devon.

field of healing hemp

Littlehempston, Devon, magic and healing space, hemp is a beautiful plant.

We made some jun with it, it was amazing.

our local paradise ~ hemp

My son arrived with some hemp leaves he had freshly picked from his Dad's licensed hemp plot in Devon.  We dried them in the dehydrator to make delicious fresh hemp powder which I love to use in raw chocolate and smoothies.

There are many amazing benefits of hemp leaves.  It is a green like no other and tastes nice in smoothies and other treats where other green powders risk ruining the recipe...
"... an extraordinarily complex superfood, containing many of the essential nutrients in good ratios. It is rich in minerals, essential natural sugars ( glyconutrients), chlorophyll, silicon and light energy and energises the brain. It provides, amongst other nutrients, essential natural sugars and carbohydrates, invaluable to sports people. It also helps with melanin production in the skin and helps one absorb full spectrum light. It is low in THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). However it is still rich in other helpful cannabinoids, in particular CBD (cannabidiol). The high quantites of THC in highly bred strains of cannabis can bring on anxiety and paranoia. The original plant (to which all cannabis and hemp will tend if allowed to seed and regrow naturally) is well-balanced with the anti-psychotic cannabinoid, CBD. Hemp leaf is low in THC but has plenty of CBD so can be a very healing medicine food."
So easy to grow and apparently with one licence a lot of hemp can be grown.

This is my current favourite raw chocolate recipe using hemp leaf.  Though I say it myself, it is really delicious!

Superfood and fruit Chocolate

60g cacao butter
40g cacao paste
a few grains celtic sea salt
3 Tbsps raw honey
2 Tbsps maca powder (gelatinized maca works best)
3 Tbsps lucuma powder
1 Tbsp violet fig powder
1 Tbsp green fig powder
1 Tbsp strawberry powder
½ tsp vanilla powder
sprinkling cayenne powder
1 Tbsp hemp leaf powder
1 Tbsp purple corn flour
1 tsp he shou wu powder
sprinkling blue green algae

Melt cacao butter and paste over low heat and stir in salt and honey.
Stir the dried ingredients together well and mix into the melted paste and butter.  Pour into moulds to set.