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Now that you’ve looked around a bit at the cannabis publications and Instagram accounts, let’s talk about what you need to know about cbd before you order a cbd product to take into your home and share with your family and pets. First off, although it would be nice, you don't need to know everything.

Do you really need to know how to diagram the molecular structure of cbd?  Or how cbd reacts with your endocannibinoid system?  All that science is important so maybe you do... but maybe not yet.  First things first and there are some things you definitely do need to know first in advance of buying a cbd product.

To start, you'll want to know if your cbd product is made using an extract of whole plants (with some thc in the mix) or cbd isolate (no thc).  If you're drug tested on the job or just don't want to get high at all, this is critical information. On the other hand, if you're not subjected to drug tests and want to benefit from the 'entourage effect', you may want to have a little thc in the mix. 

Then you'll want to know the exact percentage % of cbd vs thc in the product you're buying. Whether your cbd product has more or less than 0.3% thc determines it's legality, where you can buy it and where you can travel with it.

Then you'll really want to know the purity of the product you're buying. When you get down to it, nohthing is more important than that.

Our top cbd-only products are arranged into categories below  like 'cbd and sleep' and 'cbd for pain' and 'cbd for anxiety, etc. These different categories can be thought of as the big picture but there's a lot of overlap when you drill down.  Sleep products also work to relieve anxiety. Pain products can also help sleep.  Separating high dose products is more about packaging to save you money than the uniqueness of a high dose - you can increase the cbd dose of any product just by taking more. Cbd is cbd.

  Adding more than 0.3% of thc to the mix in your cbd product makes it psychoactive and as such it are decidedly not legal for online sales or transport across state lines. Products with thc in the mix ARE legal to purchase in states that have legalized recreational  use if you're over 21 and for patients licensed by a doctor for medical marijuana use.

While you’re at it, order something cbd for your dawg too! 

There’s a lot available to read on cannabis products and culture in the media, from established magazines like LEAFLY to regional websites like the CANNIFORNIAN to boutique newsletters like FRESH TOAST and HIGH TIDE and THE NEW SMOKER to reviewers like CBDREVIEWS to experts like PROJECT CBD. You can jump directly to one of these cool reads by clicking on their logo in the right column (or bottom of every page on mobile). 

To quickly search for or read from something from one of these publications, click the blue button below. Subscribe for free to the cannabis magazines and newsletters you like and support their efforts coming direct to your mailbox.

Let me tell you what I know about using Instagram vs Facebook as a way to interact with the cannabis community. 

Every day I update the /cbdideas Facebook page with the most current articles, images and content I can find or produce and I'm always hopeful that I will wake up to find the cannabis community enjoying and sharing the content I am so fascinated with. In reality though, all my Facebook pages are stuck in time like a well groomed but abandoned ghost town. 

It turns out there's no way for the people who would love the content in these pages to know they're there.  This is because Facebook and Google have defined any content I post that uses the word 'cbd'  to be promoting the sale or use of illegal drugs, which is against their rules. In other words, I can create a cannabis page on Facebook.  I just can't promote it.

After a year stymied with only my neice and 17 others following /cbdideas on Facebook, it became obvious that I needed to go find my audience elsewhere  ...so I opened @cbdideas accounts on Instagram, Reddit, Twitter and Pinterest.  On Instagram I immediately connected with the large, active cannabis community that hangs out there. By large I mean everyone...

Then again, if you are not liable to being drug tested and are in a community surrounded by legal dispensaries, you may want to consider purchasing a product with a bit more THC in the mix to gain the benefits of the entourage effect.

Switching from a cbd-only product to a cbd+thc product can mean starting your search over in our age-restricted section, found by selecting CBD+THC in the main menu.

There you can read about the entourage effect and consider buying popular cbd+thc products like VET CBD (look in CA) or popular brands like FAIRWINDS (look in WA) or WAKE & BAKE (look in EDIBLES). Take a preview look at the CBD+THC collection by clicking the blue button below.

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I highly recommend that you pick a favorite publication or two to browse every time you come through CBDIDEAS. Just for fun!  Check out Leafly or the Cannafornian or Fresh Toast.  Visit these and other publications by selecting PUBLICATIONS in the menu.  It's also fun to check out the Instagram pages we support @cbdideas @thcspecialties @dogsofcannabiz and @cannacompanies. A clickable summary can be found in the submenu LINKER under COMPARE in the main menu.

  Thanks for dropping by.  SYBOT