What is  Cannabis CBD Oil?

Evidence indicates that cannabis can be effective in the treatment of AIDS/HIV, Alzheimer’s disease, mood and anxiety disorders, arthritis, cancer, chronic pain, epilepsy (especially severe forms of childhood epilepsy), fibromyalgia, glaucoma, sleep disorders, PTSD, diabetes, anorexia and pharmaceutically induced anorexia, nausea and pharmaceutically induced nausea, movement disorders such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, neuropathic pain, MS and spinal cord injury, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, stroke, hypertension, glaucoma, obesity/metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, and more.

CBD or Cannabidiol is one of over 100 active cannabinoids in the cannabis plant. A significant number of recent clinical trials and a host of anecdotal reports have validated the efficacy of CBD as a legitimate medicine.

CBD does not produce the psychoactive “high” often associated with cannabis. This is attributed to THC, the most common cannabinoid found in the plant. Generally, commercialised cannabis strains will have a high THC content and low CBD content.

CBD Oil extracts have been used all over the world as a traditional medicine for many years. Along with the latest scientific research there is a growing body of empirical evidence demonstrating that CBD Oils effectively treat numerous medical ailments and conditions.

How does CBD Oil work? CBD stimulates and regulates the endocannabinoid system, a group of neuromodulators in our body responsible for a variety of physiological processes. Our bodies produce many different cannabinoids that interact with our cannabinoid receptors. The endocannabinoid system regulates appetite, pain-sensation, mood, memory and more by producing cannabinoids to interact with our body’s cannabinoid receptors that are found in the brain, as well as on some of our organs.

In many countries around the world, CBD/cannabidiol oil can be safely consumed by children and adults as a dietary supplement, with very few if any side-effects. Unlike “cannabis oil” (which generally means an extraction that is high in THC), CBD oil is not intoxicating. Australia and New Zealand are the only places in the world where many hemp products are not considered fit for human consumption, however industrial hemp is used in many products for topical application.

Medicinal cannabis products are regulated as medicines in Australia. Generally, medicines imported into, supplied in, and exported from Australia must be entered in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG), which is administered by the TGA. However, there are other mechanisms for access to medicines that are not registered on the ARTG. Medicinal cannabis products supplied in Australia will use these alternative supply pathways while evidence to support registration is gathered through clinical trials.

Legislation came into effect on 30 October 2016 to allow legal cultivation, production and manufacturing of medicinal cannabis products in Australia. This scheme is administered by the ODC. This legislation is designed to make available medicinal cannabis products and works together with the therapeutic goods legislation and state and territory legislation to make medicinal cannabis products available to certain patients.