Migraines: How I Got off Pain Meds and Found Relief with CBD

Have you ever considered using CBD for chronic pain relief? I didn’t. I never even considered it. Sure, I read some stuff in the news about marijuana’s ‘awesome’ healing properties, but to be honest I always that it was a bunch of BS. I pictured myself smoking a big spliff, getting really paranoid, feeling out of my head and still having a seriously bad migraine. Oh, and going to bed and not sleeping because I am spinning and, did I say it before, so incredibly PARANOID. Not my happy place.

My perception of medical marijuana was way off base. There are multiple different types of cannabinoids within the cannabis plant and CBD (cannabidiol) is almost exclusively used for medical relief. CBD, unlike its twin sister-from-a-different-mister THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD does not get people high or ‘stoned’. Based on a personal friend’s recommendation, I did end up trying CBD for migraine pain relief, and it...

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