Hemp VS. CBD

What’s the Difference Between Hemp Oil and CBD Oil?
This is where things can get a little confusing, but we’ll try and break it down for you as simply as possible.

Basically, CBD is an active compound (called a cannabinoid) that is found in mature cannabis plants – in most strains, it is found in abundance throughout the leaves, flowers, and even the stems. This is the compound that is of course responsible for all of the medical and therapeutic benefits that you’ve likely heard about all over the news in recent years.

Hemp oils, on the other hand, are 99% of the time made from cannabis seeds, which contain minimum amounts of CBD (or any other cannabinoids, for that matter). While hemp seeds are incredibly nutritious and advantageous in their own right (we’ll talk more about that below), they need to go through harsh and sophisticated extraction processes to retrieve the CBD that is responsible for the therapeutic benefits of the plant.

This is a very expensive process that uses advanced state-of-the-art technology. Due to these extraction costs, legitimate companies will not sell their products on Amazon as the massive online store takes a share of sales, cutting into margins, therefore making it less profitable for these companies to sell their quality products.

Furthermore, Amazon is quite strict with their policy in regards to CBD content and will not permit high quality products that contain high levels of CBD or potency.

Thus, when you go on Amazon or go to your local health food store and see all these “hemp” products, just know that even though they contain CBD they very likely come from the seeds of the plant, have gone through a low quality extraction process and contain hardly any active cannabinoids, if at all.

What’s kind of confusing, though, is that real, quality CBD oils actually do come from the hemp plant as well – they just comes from the mature parts of the plant (stem and leaves), rather than the seeds and go through strict extraction methods.

Also, it’s worth pointing out that hemp and cannabis are NOT two different things – they both come from the same exact species of plant, which is the Cannabis sativa L. plant, but have different levels of THC, CBD and other cannabinoids.

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