Your opinion on CBD oil?

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I've tried a bunch of different CBD products and some of them are more effective than others. Most help with pain relief, some help with mood and stress, and one even helped me focus! If you can, get them from a dispensary because you need a bit of THC to activate the CBD.

It's worth a try, and it's worth trying it in multiple forms to see which one works for you.

Medical THC is now legal in my state, but you have to register with the government to get it and I don't really want to do that. Especially because it is still schedule 1 federally. I can just see the feds rounding up everyone who is registered. And with my luck, that would include me. I'd be the test case.

Paranoid, I know. But weird stuff has happened to me that would never happen.

CBD is supposed to be legal, but again, I don't know if the law is clear on that, even if there is no THC in it.

That said, it would be nice to try it for the chronic pain. My baseline pain level is about 3 on a scale of 0-10. I've learned to live with and be (more or less) happy with that. Flares put me down into bed, sometimes for days.

I tried CBD oil and found that it made my joint pain less bad but my executive functioning worse. I've taken it a few times before bed to help with sleep. Had to stop because I started trying to conceive, and it's probably not safe for pregnancy.

the hybrid cbd/thc pills available in my state OTC give me a bit of relief/drowsiness if i take two at a time, or augment them with something else like valerian capsules. some stronger pot pills a nice person gave me were somewhat more effective but at the expense of some paranoia and a numb face, otherwise a similar analgesic and soporific effect i got from valium.

CBD isn’t a magic fix, but for mild anxiety, it can really help. I’ve tried several brands, but Joy Organics stood out for being clean, lab-tested, and totally THC-free. I noticed more calm during my most anxious weeks. Always good to bring it up with a physician first, though even if they aren’t CBD experts, they might still help you gauge safety

Taking CBD oil by mouth probably works for me if I have a lot of it, but because of the cumbersome regulations and maybe too-high profit margins because it's fashionable, it's way too expensive for me to use regularly in the kind of doses I'd want. When I did, it never seemed to do me any harm.

I did get my hands on some supposedly legal THC-free hemp for smoking and vaping, and that was more cost-effective for me, and it helped me relax and sleep well and I think it damped down my ASD sensory issues which can otherwise make my life something of a misery. I suspect it had a bit of THC in it, though not a huge amount. I didn't mind. I've always felt that if I used cannabis I'd probably find the high-CBD and low-ish THC types the best for me.

I think the law in many places is too strict and I'd like to see it changed to increase the permitted THC threshold a bit, and to let people feel free to decide for themselves what they want to use, and to get the prices down, because after all it's only hemp and the damage it can do to people's health isn't great compared with a lot of things that are far less regulated, and I suspect the good it can do outweighs that for a lot of people. I'm sure some of the caution is sincere, but I think some of it is over the top and motivated by politics and a generally stuffy, authoritarian attitude to anything remotely associated with recreational drugs. I gather that even during Prohibition people were allowed to drink weak beer.

Anyway, the upshot of this is that I can't afford CBD in the places I live, and I'm not allowed to informally grow my own hemp, which would be dirt cheap, so I'm being denied a medication that I think would improve the quality of my life at very little risk to my long term health and zero risk to my short term health. But I'd be interested in hearing any unbiased, truthful and courteous arguments as to why my attitude might be wrong.

general medication found at pharmacist brand name pro-calm (proclorapazine or something spelling???) does me the trick. i have dizzyness from meds mostly and procalm gets me in the car for travel when i need it. i have to take it an hour and 15 minutes before the trip both ways just to get the right effect.

better than thc tablets or gummies or whatever as i have comorbid SZA (schizoaffective disorder) and THC would make me paranoid so no no, not good.

I tried CDB oil orally in 2021. At the time I was suffering from really bad and paralysing anxiety all my life, but didn't want the SSRI prescribed to me due to fear of side effects. My experience at first was that it did nothing, especially with cheaper oil. Whatever feel I felt could have been a placebo effect. My experiences with weed were generally always bad, it made me anxious, paranoid and completely shut off in my thoughts, so the complete opposite effect. I never understood how weed or alcohol could be seen as relaxing.
I got some more expensive cbd oil and I imagined it made me feel calmer, but it was a general feeling and not an immediate effect. I decided the cost for a small bottle was too much for me to afford and continue long term. I think for anxiety it was better for me to start yoga and walk in forest and look at things(art, books) that interested me. I'm still very stressed out though, but not as bad as at the time.