Gemma Speck

So that shift in time awareness, the increase in appetite, the foggy memory and thought patterns, everything.

And for some people as well, anxiety and paranoia, it's THC.

CBD is very different.

It does not produce the classic high associated with THC.

And it does not seem to bind to the brain's CB1 receptors in the same direct, powerful way that THC does.

Instead, CBD has a much broader and more indirect pharmacology.

So what that basically means is that

THC is coming in and only really hitting one kind of receptor.

CBD is hitting multiple different kinds all across the body, including CB2 receptors, which actually occur primarily in our immune system.

So it's involved in several systems is basically what we're saying.

CBD is what you would often see marketed as medical products.

CBD oil, CBD gummies, CBD drops.

Some people think of it as a weaker weed, but it's a different cannabis compound or derivative entirely with a completely different profile of feelings or sensations.

It doesn't create that same overhaul in our consciousness.

In research, it's often described as actually having a potentially calming, antipsychotic, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory kind of job.

or role.

So whilst THC or typical weed tends to shift our experience psychologically into this altered intensified state, CBD is better understood as a compound that may influence our body more than our mind, but also our overall ability to regulate.

Okay, turning away from medicinal uses, one question I got from a lot of you when I said on Instagram that we were doing this episode is, why does it impact me?

Why does smoking weed impact me differently compared to my friends, compared to my boyfriend, my girlfriend, I don't know, my parents even?

Why do I have such a different response?