As the vaping community widens, so its diversity grows. Indeed, nowadays, a sub-section of the community is increasingly becoming populated not by those who are necessarily smokers looking to quit/ former smokers looking not to return to tobacco, not ‘cloud-chasers’ and not ‘flavour fanatics’ either. That’s because they’re people who don’t vape regular e-liquid at all because, instead, they’re usually vaping cannabidiol (CBD) vape oils. And the reason they’ve turned to vaping to consume the hemp-derived chemical is to naturally alleviate the symptoms of conditions and illnesses (e.g. chronic pain, stress, anxiety and so on).
Legalisation and consumption
Indeed, slowly but surely, consumption of CBD is becoming less and less an illegal activity, as its consumption’s becoming legalised across the world, at least to an extent; precisely because it’s beneficial effects on the body are being accepted and adopted among mainstream health practices. To this end, in some countries – for instance, in North America – CBD’s now available to purchase in several different forms; everything from lotions to vape oils to gummy candies, even.
Now, the legal monetisation of CBD was always inevitable, yet where money’s to be made from CBD legally is where it’s need is greatest and that’s as an alleviator of symptoms, of course. In these terms then, for the customer, the biggest question isn’t what form to consume it in (although vaping has obvious health advantages over smoking the stuff) but exactly what type of CBD to consume – namely, full spectrum CBD or CBD isolate.
Full spectrum CBD and CBD isolate
So, what’s the difference between the two? Why would you opt to consume one and not the other? Well, fundamentally, it comes down to what they each contain. Full spectrum CBD (or full spectrum vape CBD oil, as vapers may be familiar with it) is a full composition of all the chemicals taken directly from the hemp plant. This means it contains, indeed, everything; Cannabinol (CBN), Cannabicycol (CBL) and even Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – the latter being cannabis’s principal psychoactive ingredient (yet it only constituents 0.3% of full spectrum CBD, ensuring it won’t cause more than minimal mental stimulation, so isn’t over the legal limit for industrial hemp products).
Alternatively, CBD isolate is also wholly derived from the hemp plant but, in so being, it will also have been purified too. Which means it will have been isolated from every other cannabinoid in the plant.
Full spectrum CBD and CBD isolate – the pros and cons
It’s long been assumed that, because it’s been through a purification process and literally been isolated, CBD isolate is naturally the more potent (and, therefore, the more favourable to consume) of the two kinds for relief from the symptoms of conditions and disorders. However, this theory soured as recently as 2015 thanks to a study conducted at Jerusalem’s Lautenberg Center for General Tumor Immunology, whose findings found that, of the two, it’s actually full spectrum CBD oil that’s the more concentrated and more potent.
That said, there’s always a chance some people will find they’re particularly sensitive to one or more of the many cannabinoids in full spectrum CBD, meaning that, for them, it would obviously be better to opt for CBD isolate. So then, frankly, which of the two CDB types you decide to go with for treatment (especially via a vaping device, bought from either an online retailer or at an e cig London shop) really depends on which your body takes to best; which you find works best for you.
