CBD

With the signing of the Farm Bill of 2018, cannabidiol (CBD) produced from industrial hemp is now legal almost everywhere in the United States. You can see the explosion of CBD products on the market place. Today, you can purchase varieties of CBD on the internet, your corner store, drug store, grocery store, or smoke shop. There are CBD retail outlets just selling CBD. As in any industry that has such huge potential for profits, there are unscrupulous people selling bottles of who-knows-what as CBD.

Before you buy that tincture or gummy from the local store, stop and check it out first.

Does it actually have CBD in the product?

How much is in the product?

Where did the CBD come from?

How was it extracted from the plant?

How many people have changed/added to it from the producer to you?

Was it tested by a 3rd party lab?Is the item safe?

These seem like crazy questions to have to consider before buying and taking CBD. Most people believe if it is on the market, it must be safe. NOT TRUE! In this quickly changing marketplace, the regulations for safety and testing have not kept up with the influx of people manufacturing, and white bottling CBD.

White bottling refers to the process in which a person/company resells their CBD products, usually in plain white bottles to another person/ company. That second seller then adds their label to the bottles and resells it. Consider that this process could have happened 10 times from the time the original CBD left the producer.

When the white bottling occurs, more often than not, the middle man adds something to the product in order to resell more than what they originally purchased. In other words, the original product that may have been lab tested is now changed. How many times has someone added something in order to sell more of a product than what they purchased?

You will never know what is in your bottle, until 3rd party testing is mandated for each and every product that we as consumers use in any manner.

I first met Kim Britton and Pure Spectrum several years ago. I was in Kauai trying to find CBD for my sore body. The smoke shops had just stopped selling CBD the week before my arrival. I found 2 vials on another island, but that was all that was available. I did an internet search and decided to try Pure Spectrum. I phoned their office, and Kim answered the phone. Our hour-long conversation left me convinced that I had just met a walking encyclopedia on CBD and the endocrine system. Kim often quotes Dr. Mechoulam, from Israel, the grandfather of THC and the Endocannabinoid System. She is constantly updating herself with studies and reads every book she can get her hands on to continue her education.

Kim Britton, Pure Spectrum of Evergreen, Colorado, recently spoke with us about how she is working tirelessly to educate people on the benefits of CBD, and also why it is important to purchase safe, tested products.

Kim’s journey into the cannabis industry began when she moved to Colorado from Kansas, where she was born and raised until 9th grade. She was in school when Colorado first became a medical marijuana state. Once an adult, she had the opportunity to have an interview for a local Medical Marijuana

Dispensary. She was hired as a “budtender” and quickly learned as much about dispensaries as she could. Soon, she and her partner had their own dispensary and grow. The dispensary they purchased was not in compliance with the state regulations. At the time of purchase, the dispensary was not in compliance with state regulations. Kim took on the job of bringing it into compliance in quick order.

Kim had a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) shortly after their business was up and running. Her recovery was long and difficult, and she has lingering effects to this day. She turned to hemp and CBD to help with all the problems she was experiencing due to the brain injury, not wanting to take addictive, strong pain medicines.

She journaled her results, and tried many hemp/CBD products and methods of ingestion. At first, she was taking 3+ bottles of tincture a month. It was during this time that they encountered a grower that was developing a strain of CBD/hemp for a young girl that had come to Colorado because of her severe epilepsy. Their interest in CBD and hemp was peaked.

From Kim’s journals, they studied her results with CBD. They decided to form Pure Spectrum, and focus on hemp-derived CBD products. They operate from their headquarters in the beautiful mountain town of Evergreen, Colorado.

My first trip to Evergreen was on a sunny winter day. Snow capped mountain ranges greeted me, as well as elk, deer, and groundhogs! I turned into the Pure Spectrum lot and marveled at the sleek mountain chalet that is their headquarters. Meeting with their team of professionals, it was easy to see why they have a faithful following. I spent the day with their team and visited and listened to many customers’ stories of using their CBD products and how they felt it helped them.

Kim, currently the director of National Sales, has a way with customers that makes them feel at ease talking with a complete stranger about their health, disorders, and what they have tried prior to turning to CBD. She educates each person she comes into contact with, and all leave their conversation knowing that Kim Britton is now in their corner and will work tirelessly to see that they try to have improvements in their well-being.

Kim tells us we should be on the lookout for new products coming soon from them that will “get the attention of those people not yet convinced of the potential effects of CBD”. They have new strategic partnerships on the horizon, along with new products.

LOOK FORWARD TO KIM’S CBD COLUMN IN OUR JULY ISSUE.