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CBD benefits for mental health

CBD is the hot topic of plant-medicine right now, but I want to be clear and say that there are many plants which can do incredible things for us. It’s just that the majority of the known powerful plants are made ‘illegal’ in the interest of governments and pharmaceutical companies who seek to swap health for profits.

CBD comes from the hemp plant, which has co-evolved with our species over thousands of years at least. This means that we have an intimatewith hemp, which has been used to clothe, feed, shelter and heal us for millennia. Hemp has helped us in many ways, supporting the proliferation of our population, and we have helped spread hemp around the planet too… a like-for-like mutually beneficial arrangement.

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