The main thing we look for when finding CBD Oil For Sale online in 2015

Purchasing legal CBD online can be a daunting process in 2015, with new CBD companies being launched every week, there are literally dozens of vendors looking to catch your eye with their latest and greatest offerings of CBD rich Hemp oil for sale.  For the uninitiated, getting through the marketing speak and bullet points, can be a bit of a struggle with intimidating terms that can leave one without a Cannabis background wondering what it is they are looking at.  We advise many people on locating good suppliers of legal Hemp based CBD oils and extracts, and the following is the top issue that we are currently looking at when finding CBD Oil For Sale online. 

 Whole Plant vs. Stalk and Seed base

By far and away the main thing we are looking for in 2015 from companies producing legal CBD oils, are companies that are using Whole Plant base for their extracts.  When legal hemp based CBD oils were introduced to the market a few years ago, the earliest companies sourced imported industrial hemp base from Europe and other markets abroad, and this material was limited to using only the stalk and seed base for CBD extraction, due to previous language in the Controlled Substances Act that had a bit of a loophole when it came to stems and seeds from the Cannabis plant, which also included the Hemp strains. With the passing of both HIA vs. DEA in 2004 and the Farm Bill of 2014,  manufacturers are now starting to utilize the whole plant which includes the leaf and bud material where the bulk of the Cannabinoids and resins in the Cannabis plant are produced. 

This leaf and bud material, as anyone familiar with Cannabis knows, are where the greatest concentrations of Cannabinoids, Terpenes and Flavaniods are located within the Cannabis plants and requires much much less raw material to extract things like CBD when contrasted to using the vastly inferior stems and seeds for base extraction.  The end result is that the whole plant process of CBD extraction produces higher concentrations of CBD at lower extraction costs, as well as producing a base material that is much higher in associated Cannabinoids, Terpenes and Flavanoids, which provide a fuller entourage effect to support substances such as CBD in the body, as nature intended. 

The Farm Bill designated industrial hemp as being separate from marijuana for the first time and indicates that all portions of the plant, growing or not, are contained within the definition of industrial hemp.  This, along with the previous ruling in HIA vs. DEA 2004, allow for the importation of foreign hemp base into the county for use in hemp based nutritional supplements.  Currently, our own early domestic hemp programs are limited to the pilot programs they are attached to, and shipment of any products derived from them over state lines is still unlawful.  Organizations such as Realm of Caring are at the forefront of this issue, being very close to shipping their Charlotte's Web extract nationally under the industrial hemp provisions.  CW meets classification for industrial hemp, but shipping it over state lines is still a legal grey area.  The same plant, grown in Europe, would be able to be imported into the U.S. without any issues whatsoever, based on its low THC content and industrial hemp status. 

There are already pilot hemp farms in the U.S. that are breeding female, seedless hemp plants, the same way that drug strains are produced, in order to maximize CBD production.  The term "hemp" is rapidly being redefined in the last few years, with advances in breeding and the focus on CBD production instead of the historically lucrative THC content in marijuana plants. The term "hemp" no longer just refers to strains of Cannabis that are grown intersexed in large fields for the purposes of fiber, pulp and seed production.  Ten years ago, no one was looking to the hemp plant as a source of valued Cannabinoids.  

The story today is much different, as we found that the hemp cultivars still had the recessive genes for CBD production that had all but totally been bred out of modern marijuana strains.  When CBD began to focus increased attention in the last decade, breeders started to hybridize drug strains with hemp genetics to create high CBD strains of marijuana such as Charlotte's Web. In the case of CW, it was further bred to reduce the THC levels to meet the criteria for industrial hemp classification.  CW will be the first of many plants to meet such criteria, that is, high CBD, low THC hemp status. There are now beginning to be a good number of marijuana strains that have been bred to produce high levels of CBD, but the THC levels in many of these plants make them only available in states with medical marijuana programs that feature dispensaries, or states that have legalized marijuana use all together.

CBD manufactures are starting more and more to utilize the whole plant, instead of just the stems and seeds.  Some are using hemp base where the seeds and stems are left in with the leafs and buds, and others, such as Dose of Nature are starting to remove the seeds and stalks prior to extraction to increase the purity and potency of the final base reductions, resulting in oils that look like these do:

When looking to buy CBD online in 2015, one should be seeking out vendors that are utilizing the whole plant, be it whole plant inter sexed hemp as is commonly available now, or whole plant female hemp, which will be coming online more and more as breeding progresses.  Whole plant CBD extracts offer you the best bang for your buck, in terms of full spectrum Cannabinoid profiles and associated Terpenes and Flavaniods.  They also tend to be more concentrated per price point.  Whole plant hemp products, especially those derived from female plants, offer the closest approximation to legal medical marijuana, having many of the associated Cannabinoids and simply lacking in THC, which not every one wants or needs in their Cannabis preperations.    In 2015, we accept nothing less than whole plant base when looking for CBD oil for sale online.