EP #10: Exploring CBD: Myths, Medication Alternatives, and Real-Life Transformations

Can CBD truly replace your daily medications? Join hosts Marilisa Lawless and Jeremy Wolf as we unpack the frequently asked questions about CBD, cutting through the myths and misconceptions. In this eye-opening episode of the Hemp Del Soul podcast, we reveal the minimal side effects associated with CBD use and explore its potential as a supplement rather than a drug. Hear firsthand accounts of individuals who have successfully used CBD to manage conditions like anxiety, pain, and depression, often reducing or eliminating their dependence on traditional medications.

Curious about the FDA's stance on CBD? We break down the regulatory landscape and discuss future possibilities for CBD in the wellness industry. Discover why incorporating CBD into your daily routine could be life-changing and learn what makes it a safer alternative compared to conventional treatments. Whether you're considering starting CBD or simply want to educate yourself further, this episode is packed with invaluable insights that could transform your approach to health and wellness. Don't miss out on this enlightening discussion that promises to clear up any doubts and offer a fresh perspective on CBD's role in enhancing your quality of life.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Hemp Del Soul podcast.
All health, no high.
Here's your host, Maril isaLawless.

Jeremy Wolf (00:14):
Hello, hello everyone, and welcome back to
another episode of the Hemp DelSol podcast.
I am your co-host, Jeremy Wolf,joined by none other than your
host, Marilisa Lawless.
Maril isa, good to see you.

Marilisa Lawless (00:28):
Yes, same here .
I'm glad to be back.
It feels like it's been forever, even though it's only been a
month.

Jeremy Wolf (00:33):
Yeah, yeah, indeed .
So I wanted to try something alittle bit different today.
I wanted to rattle off someFAQs, some frequently asked
questions surrounding one of thebusinesses that you do, which
is CBDs.
I know a lot of people outthere have strong feelings about
cannabis and CBDs and hemp andmarijuana, but as it becomes

(00:57):
more mainstream, I think it'simportant to clear up some of
these misconceptions and myths.
So, first off, what are some ofthe potential side effects of
using CBD?

Marilisa Lawless (01:10):
And I have to preface it with anecdotally
because of legal things.
However, my experience has beenthe worst side effect that
anybody has ever had was thatthey were sleepy, which for many
people is not a bad.

Jeremy Wolf (01:25):
That's not a bad side effect in most cases.

Marilisa Lawless (01:28):
There is maybe two people that I have worked
with over the past five or sixyears that I've been, you know,
doing the CBD, that they hadsome stomach upset.

Jeremy Wolf (01:37):
That's about it.
Yeah, so so pretty safe.
What are, I guess?
Is it safe to use on a dailybasis?
I'm guessing it is because youhaven't had issues, but is this
something that's recommendedthat you could take every day
without issue?

Marilisa Lawless (01:56):
Yeah, In the CBD community, because
everything is hemp based.
It's not a drug.
You're not going to get high,You're not going to.
You know, you're not going tohave any of those euphoric
experiences.
It is because it's not a drug.
You're not going to get high,You're not going to have any of
those euphoric experiencesBecause it's not a drug.
It's absolutely recommendedthat you take it on a daily
basis to get the best benefit.

Jeremy Wolf (02:13):
So is it more, I guess, classified as a
supplement than a drug.
Would that be a goodclassification to use?

Marilisa Lawless (02:19):
It's a better classification to put it as a
supplement, but it's not reallyclassified as anything yet, so
I'm not really sure about any ofit.
Um, according to the FDA, CBDmay interact with other
medications.

Jeremy Wolf (02:36):
So, like for, for instance, somebody's on maybe
they're on an antidepressant andagain, I know you're not a
doctor and this is just usspeaking.
But from your experience, ifsomebody is on some kind of
other medication, is there anynegative side effects or
interactions through CBD use?

Marilisa Lawless (02:54):
No, actually they've discovered that CBD
actually increases serotonin.

Jeremy Wolf (02:59):
Okay.

Marilisa Lawless (02:59):
It's one of the studies that have come out
and that's what most of theantidepressants are they're for
increasing serotonin.
So I actually have had many ofmy own patients get off their
antidepressant when they gotstable with the amount of CBD
that they were taking.
So I have seen not a negativeinteraction but a positive

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replacement so that they'veactually been able to replace
their antidepressant medication.
I've seen people get off oftheir pain medication
specifically because they wereusing CBD and the CBD appeared
to be taking care of theirinflammation, and sometimes pain
is increased because of anxiety.

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So once the CBD took care ofthe anxiety and the pain, they
didn't need the pain medicationanymore.

Jeremy Wolf (03:48):
That's fantastic.
As somebody that has takenantidepressants and anxiety and
pain medicine throughout my life, I know how difficult that
could be on the mind and how itcould totally change the way
your mind is structured.
So if there's an alternative tothat and like I think we've
talked about before, like itdoesn't hurt to try it right, to

(04:09):
just implement it into yourlife and see what it does for
you.
It is again, through allaccounts, pretty damn safe.

Marilisa Lawless (04:16):
Yeah, and throughout cannabis, as the
parent of marijuana and hemp.
Nobody's ever died from anoverdose.
Nobody's ever had anylife-threatening illnesses as a
result of taking hemp.

Jeremy Wolf (04:31):
So what does the FDA say about all this?
Like, where are they at withthis?
I know this is still so muchred tape, but what is the FDA's
current positions and guidelinesregarding the safety and
efficacy of CBD?

Marilisa Lawless (04:45):
Well, realistically, they have been
studying this since the 1970s.
It is kind of crazy.
So they have more and morestudies, more and more studies,
and they have approved medicallya CBD product Epidilox for
treating seizures.
Okay, but it's only that oneproduct.

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And then there's two others, Ibelieve, that they've also
approved, but they areprescription only and they are
CBD.
But they are prescription onlyand they are CBD.
So the Epidilux is CBD and theother two are actually synthetic
THC based medications for pain,but that's all the FDA has
approved.
So the FDA hasn't said this isa supplement, nor are they

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saying it's a drug.
They're saying we need to domore research.

Jeremy Wolf (05:33):
So they approved synthetic THC for pain, because
I've heard all sorts of horrorstories about the synthetic THCs
that they sell.

Marilisa Lawless (05:42):
Yeah, no, no, no, and this is a prescription.
Okay, like I said, I can'tremember the names of it.
It's like it used to be.
Marinol was the one, but that'snot.
I don't know that that's stillaround but Marinol was synthetic
THC that they use to treat painand they were giving it only to
cancer.
Patients Got it so, and thatwas for years.

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So the FDA just.
They read a report that cameout last month from the FDA and
what they said the holdup is isbeing able to get it in front of
Congress and that if Congressput some pressure on the FDA to
continue their research, itwould move forward.

Jeremy Wolf (06:26):
So what you're saying is that it'll get done in
the next three decades?

Marilisa Lawless (06:32):
I hope not.

Jeremy Wolf (06:33):
So what about age restrictions?
Are there any recommended agesor is there a recommended age
for use of CBD products, and arethere any restrictions
specifically on like children'schildren and teenagers?

Marilisa Lawless (06:49):
There there's no true legal age 18 on some, 21
on some.
It just depends.
But the realistically it's 18and over.
Sure, I do know children thattake it, I do.

Jeremy Wolf (07:06):
Do they need to get?
Do they need to getauthorization from from their
doctor to do that, or it's justup to the parent Most of the
time they do.

Marilisa Lawless (07:13):
But the children that I know take it.
I do know doctors that give itto children that are really high
anxiety and or on the autismspectrum.
So I do know that there aremany children that are taking
CBD, that there are manychildren that are taking CBD and
again, with that disclaimer ofit's not, you know, there's

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nowhere that it's recommendedfor children.

Jeremy Wolf (07:38):
Sure.

Marilisa Lawless (07:46):
Yet I know many that are taking it, many
that are on the autism spectrumand or have attention deficit
issues.
They're taking that.
Parents are giving that totheir children instead of
medication that the doctors willprescribe.
So I do know neurologists,child neurologists and child
psychiatrists that willrecommend CBD and some actually
sell CBD out of their officesand it makes a huge difference

(08:09):
with these children, again,anecdotally, and it makes a huge
difference with these children,again anecdotally, I've even
I've had parents that havereached out to me that have said
, wow, what a difference thishas made for my kid, for his
focus in school, what adifference this has made for my
kid to be able to sleep at night, what a difference.
This is Because a lot ofparents are giving their kids
melatonin, which is not a goodidea, you know, because they

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want to knock their kid out atnight.
Yeah, the other option isclonidine, which is a medication
or it's an antihypertensive,and that's what they give kids
to put them to sleep because itlowers their blood pressure
enough that they fall asleep.
But again, I don't know manyparents that are that
well-informed that will just dothat without doing research yeah

(08:55):
, sure.

Jeremy Wolf (08:56):
So some of the things they put kids on for
different disorders is crazy,like giving child for add or
adhd.
It's like, yeah, let's justgive them speed to to fix the
issue what is?

Marilisa Lawless (09:07):
yeah, well, the speed.
What it does is actually, ithelps the brain to coalesce and
pull into focus.

Jeremy Wolf (09:14):
Yeah.

Marilisa Lawless (09:15):
It's not that it's doing the reverse or
anything like that.
It does what amphetamines dopulls you into focus.
So that's why it's always beenrecommended.
But, yeah, there's side effects.
Kids lose weight, kids don'tsleep.
Yeah, yeah, there's sideeffects.
Kids lose weight, kids don'tsleep.
So there's other issues, andthe parents that I've spoken to

(09:37):
don't have any of those issueswith their kids that are taking
CBD.
They see it as a godsend.

Jeremy Wolf (09:43):
Indeed.
So I know one of the thingsthat you pride yourself on at
Hemp Del Soul is where and how,where and how you source your
products right is very importantto make sure you're getting the
best product available.
So how could the generalconsumer that is interested in
learning more and ultimatelytrying CBD, how could they

(10:04):
ensure that they're purchasingand using the highest quality
and the safest CBD products?

Marilisa Lawless (10:11):
So if they're getting it off a website, don't
buy it on Amazon, please.
If they're buying it off awebsite, make sure they're
checking the certificates ofanalysis called COAs.
It should be on every singlewebsite that sells CBD, and what
that is is third-party labtesting that says that what's in
this bottle, in this jar, inthis lotion, in this product, is

(10:35):
what it says.
It is that there is nodifference, that it's that, that
that's what it is.
You know that.
It is what it is.

Jeremy Wolf (10:59):
Got it.
Lastly, what is, what is someof some of the ongoing research,
or what ongoing research is theFDA currently conducting on CBD
?

Marilisa Lawless (11:06):
They're still.
They're still saying that theyhave.
So 51% appears to be for painmanagement.
They're still saying that theyhave.
So 51% appears to be for painmanagement.
9% is actually for psychiatry,and this is just a report that
came out in May.
9% of the research is aboutpsychiatry and helping with
mental health issues, and thenjust various other bits and
pieces, but those were the twothat stood out to me in that

(11:27):
report.
Got it?
So, yes, and that's recent,that's recent research.
So it had a little pie chart onthe FDA website about what
they're doing.

Jeremy Wolf (11:40):
Okay, Very cool.
So that wraps it up.
If you guys like this formatwith these frequently asked
questions, if you think this wasuseful, please drop a comment
below and let us know if there'sany other topics you'd like us
to address.
Maril isa, always a pleasure.

Marilisa Lawless (11:57):
Absolutely.
I'm glad we're doing this and,yes, I love to answer questions,
so please feel free to reachout to my phone number right
there.
It's my cell phone.
Just text me.

Jeremy Wolf (12:08):
All right Sounds good and everyone thanks for
tuning in and we will lookforward to seeing you on the
next episode of the Hemp Del Solpodcast.
Everyone take care, have awonderful day.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
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