{"id":178,"date":"2015-05-24T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-05-25T00:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T00:12:14","slug":"an-over-the-counter-cannabis-product-you-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lymebook.com\/bryan\/2015\/05\/24\/an-over-the-counter-cannabis-product-you-should-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"An over-the-counter Cannabis product you should know about"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pmd\"<\/a>Last month, we published our newest book on treating Lyme disease with Cannabis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Dr. Murakami, a specialist in bacteriology and immunology and a man who has treated Lyme disease for decades, is featured in a new article entitled,\u00a0Cannabidiol paste potentially a cure for Lyme disease<\/a>. A very interesting read, indeed.<\/p>\n

But the press doesn’t stop there. The latest issue of Time Magazine<\/a>\u00a0features marijuana on the cover, and the June issue of National Geographic Magazine<\/a> also features cannabis on its cover.<\/p>\n

Medical marijuana is going mainstream. One of the biggest complaints I hear about this treatment option is that marijuana is hard to obtain – it is either illegal or requires a medical prescription in the United States.<\/p>\n

However, did you know that one of the main ingredients in cannabis – one of the ingredients which is thought to have very powerful healing benefits – is available over the counter, anywhere in the USA, without a prescription? This ingredient is cannabidiol and is very well studied<\/a>\u00a0(in fact, it is the ingredient mentioned in the above-linked article about curing Lyme disease with Cannabis).<\/p>\n

Granted, cannabidiol doesn’t have\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>of the active ingredients in the cannabis plant (and it definitely doesn’t have the psychoactive ingredients) but many Lyme sufferers find it tremendously helpful. This is the brand\/product I am fond of:<\/p>\n