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Is smoking CBD cigarettes good or bad? Are hemp cigarettes the same as cannabis – do they contain THC? What are the benefits and risks of smoking CBD?

People are finding that CBD cigarettes or smoking CBD are great ways to enjoy the benefits of CBD. Smoking CBD produces a variety of effects, such as feeling happy, calm, relaxed, and energetic and an overall feeling of well-being without intoxication.

Because smoking CBD offers instant uptake, it can quickly offer all of the benefits any other form of CBD would offer, such as relief of pain, reduced stress and anxiety, better sleep, reduced swelling, and a variety of other benefits.

CBD

The CBD industry is in its infancy. Many of the claims about the benefits of CBD are anecdotal, meaning people are having positive experiences as a result of CBD use, but every anecdotal claim about CBD benefits is not fully confirmed by science.

After a research gap lasting several decades where it was not legal to study CBD, modern science is just starting to uncover all of the benefits CBD has to offer and separate the baseless claims from the genuine benefits.

CBD comes in many forms, such as tinctures, soft gels, and gummies, but smoking CBD is one of the oldest and quickest methods available.

CBD reacts with the endocannabinoid system to produce beneficial effects.

CBD vs. THC

CBD and THC are two compounds that both come from the same type of plant – the cannabis plant. They both interact with the endocannabinoid system we have in our bodies to produce different effects.

That’s where the similarities end. THC is an intoxicant that gets you “high”. The difference between smoking CBD and smoking THC is, in a word, intoxication.

CBD doesn’t intoxicate. It is proving to have many benefits for both people and animals. There are physical health benefits, mental health benefits, and even anti-aging and anti-wrinkle benefits.

CBD and THC are closely linked; they come from the same plant and react with our bodies using the same system but produce vastly different results.

One example is that THC can increase anxiety and even induce paranoia, while CBD has the opposite effect. CBD reduces anxiety.

Can you smoke CBD?

In a word, yes, you can smoke CBD. One of the oldest ways of enjoying the benefits of cbd is to smoke it.

Industrial hemp is legal and grown in the USA. It is legal in all 50 states. By law, it has to contain less than 0.03% of THC. The CBD you can legally smoke comes from the industrial hemp plant.

It looks the same and sometimes smells the same as the THC. It’s the dried flower from the hemp plant. The only difference is the amount of THC present in the CBD flower. It cannot exceed trace amounts of THC, which are so low as not to be of any consequence.

CBD flower is legal everywhere (in the US) because it falls under the Farm Act of 2018, which made CBD legal in all 50 states and differentiated it from THC.

Industrial hemp plants produce flowers. Those flowers contain high concentrations of CBD. The flowers are dried and smoked either by rolling the dried flower into CBD cigarettes or smoking it in a pipe.

Hemp Smokes vs. Herbal Cigarettes

Hemp smokes is another way of saying CBD smokes. Hemp smokes, or hemp cigarettes, do contain CBD. However, it’s easy to get confused. There are herbal cigarettes that do not contain anything but herbs. People smoke herbal cigarettes for a number of reasons, but primarily to help with tension or anxiety.

Benefits of Smoking CBD

The benefits of smoking CBD offer people the same physical and mental health benefits as any other option they might choose to consume CBD.

One FDA-approved benefit is the use of CBD to help with childhood epilepsy. People use CBD to reduce depression and anxiety. They use it to solve insomnia issues and relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and solve a myriad of problems.

We have created a page that offers 50 CBD benefits. Almost all of those benefits are available to people through CBD smokes.

Speed of the Effects

One significant benefit of smoking CBD is the speed of the effect. Inhaling CBD smoke into your lungs enables the CBD to enter your system much more quickly than it would if you were to ingest gummies or absorb CBD through your skin.

Ingesting CBD requires a breakdown in your stomach and processing by your liver before you’ll notice any benefit. Smoking offers instant absorption, and you’ll feel the effects in a matter of a few minutes.

Dosage

Another benefit of smoking CBD is that you don’t have to worry about the dosage. You can experiment to find the dose that works best for you if you are a healthy adult.

A 2018 study found that even large doses of 1500 mg twice per day were tolerated by the healthy adults in the experiment with very mild side effects such as diarrhea, headache, and nausea.

Aid To Stop Smoking Tobacco

CBD has been tried by many as an aid in an attempt to stop smoking tobacco. Used either by itself or preferably in conjunction with other tobacco smoking cessation tools, CBD has been helpful to many people trying to “kick the habit”.

There are two reasons why it seems to have helped. While we are unaware at this time of any clinical studies that show CBD has proven to help people stop smoking tobacco, some known CBD properties are likely to have a positive impact in such a program.

One is that CBD has natural antiaddiction properties. Studies have focused on drug dependence and shown CBD to be effective in helping to reduce cravings.

Another well-known property of CBD is that it offers relaxation. Science has shown in multiple studies that CBD is effective in reducing anxiety. The reduction of anxiety and the accompanying feeling of relaxation seems to be one of CBD’s core properties.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that CBD is not addictive, and it doesn’t pose a public health risk.

Possible Negative impact of smoking CBD

The act of smoking anything requires creating smoke by igniting a substance and drawing it into one’s lungs. Over a long period of time, respiratory issues such as bronchitis or COPD can result. The long-term impact on the lungs of those involved in smoking CBD is unknown at this time.

Difference Between CBD and Tobacco

However, researchers have shown that CBD avoids one of the great dangers or risks that occurs as a result of long-term tobacco use – there is no direct link to cancer. One other noteworthy difference between tobacco smoking and smoking CBD is that CBD is not addictive. In fact, people smoke CBD as an aid to quitting smoking tobacco.

Vaping

One way to mitigate the risks of smoking CBD is to use vaporizers. Vaping, as it is known, has been shown to reduce the risks of increased respiratory symptoms. Vaping heats the CBD flower to a high heat that will create an aerosol, but that level of heat is below what it takes for the flower to combust and burn.

Vaping has health risks of its own. Despite the fact that it avoids combustion and smoke, there are risks from vitamin E acetate, and some devices burned heavy metals, which create lung problems.

Vaping is not completely safe but may offer less of a long-term risk to your lungs than inhaling smoke.

Interaction With Prescription Meds

There is a lot more to the way CBD functions in the human body, but without going into a lot of medical and scientific detail, it can be said that CBD interacts with the endocannabinoid system in humans and other mammals.

The endocannabinoid system in mammals is very similar to molecules in the cannabis plant! CBD works because it gives different signals to the receptors already in place in mammal bodies.

The interaction between any substance and prescription drugs may produce some undesirable effects. If you are taking prescription drugs, it would be wise to seek medical opinions and research clinical findings about known drug interactions with CBD. It is important to determine what amount of risk if any, you may face.

The risk you face is also determined by the type of medication you are on, your current health status, and the importance of your current health condition. An optional prescription drug to treat a mental health issue may not pose the same risk as you would face if, say, a heart medication was less effective or produced unwanted side effects.

Smoking CBD oil

Smoking CBD oil is not a good idea. Oil inhaled can leave residue in your lungs, which could cause lung damage. CBD oil could be used in a vaporizer (vaped), but then there are some possible health risks to using a vaporizer to consider. See the section titled “Vaping” above.