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Physicist Brian Greene on learning to focus on the here and now – KCRW

Posted: May 9, 2020 at 12:41 pm

The coronavirus pandemic is a reminder that things can change fast and unexpectedly. As much as we look for stability, things come and go, and we live and die. Theoretical physicist and mathematician Brian Greene explains why understanding the science behind the impermanence in our world can lead to a more fulfilling life.

He explains his theories with KCRWs Jonathan Bastian. This interview has been abbreviated and edited for clarity.

In your most recent book, you write about the concept of impermanence. When did that idea become apparent to you?

Brian Greene: I think at various levels of conscious awareness, we know that we are impermanent. And it hits us in different ways at different times, depending upon where we are mentally, spiritually and what's happening in the world around us.

When I was in college and seriously thinking about what I wanted to do, I had a conversation with a mentor of mine who told me he does mathematics because once you prove a theorem in mathematics, it's true forever, it will never not be true.

That just hit me. It was a powerful moment when I recognized that you can't say that about many things in the world. And that's when I started to really think about whats available in this life that does transcend our own impermanence.

How do you then arrive at the concept of impermanence?

There is this sensibility that if you can uncover the deep laws of the universe, you are touching something that was always true. One of the things I do in the book is explore the degree to which that is actually true. Does a law of physics, does quantum mechanics have any meaning or value or purpose in the absence of human beings, or in the absence of another life form that can contemplate it? What does a deep equation mean if there isn't any conscious awareness to contemplate it?

In the far future, as I argue in the book, it's quite likely there won't be any life forms. And without lifeforms to contemplate Einsteins equations, his theory of relativity, it's hard for me to see that they have any standing in terms of the permanence that we as living creatures aspire to.

How did you come to grips with this? Did you have some kind of existential awakening?

I definitely went through a dark stance from immersing myself in the idea that you are transcending human impermanence, whether it's quantum mechanics or relativity or what have you. That was how I lived my life for many decades. And then to recognize that that perspective is probably not right, that was a shift.

But then I had this other moment in, of all places, a Starbucks. A shift that happened inside of me, where I felt like a change in perspective from grasping for an ephemeral future to just focusing on the here and now.

...Do what we've heard from mindfulness teachers and sages and philosophers across the ages to focus on the here and now, as that is the only place in which value and meaning can actually have an anchor.

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Unified Field Theory: Einstein Failed, but What’s the Future? – The Great Courses Daily News

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By Dan Hooper, Ph.D., University of Chicago The String theory is considered as one of the future unified field theories. (Image: Natali Art collections/Shutterstock)Einsteins First Attempt at Unified Field Theory

In 1923, Einstein published a series of papers that built upon and expanded on Eddingtons work of affine connection. Later in the same year, he wrote another paper, in which he argued that this theory might make it possible to restore determinism to quantum physics.

These papers of Einstein were covered enthusiastically by the press since he was the only living scientist that was a household name. Although few journalists really understood the theory that Einstein was putting forth, they did understand that Einstein was proposing something potentially very important.

But unfortunately, it was not true. Few of Einsteins colleagues were impressed by this work. And within a couple of years, even Einstein accepted that his approach was deeply flawed. If Einstein was going to find a viable unified field theory, he would have to find another way of approaching the problem.

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Einsteins next major effort in this direction came in the late 1920s. This new approach was based on an idea known as distant parallelism. This approach was very mathematically complex as Einstein treated both the metric tensor and the affine connection as fundamental quantities in this approach, trying to take full advantage of both.

Once again, the press responded enthusiastically. But again, Einsteins colleagues did not. One reason for this was that Einstein was trying to build a theory that would unify general relativity with Maxwells theory of electromagnetism. But over the course of the 1920s, Maxwells classical theory had been replaced by the new quantum theory. Although Maxwells equations are still useful today, they are really only an approximation to the true quantum nature of the universe.

For this reason, many physicists saw Einsteins efforts to unify classical electromagnetism with general relativity as old-fashioned. Einstein seems to have been hoping that quantum mechanics was just a fad. But he was dead wrong. Quantum mechanics was here to stay.

This is a transcript from the video series What Einstein Got Wrong. Watch it now, on The Great Courses Plus.

In the years that followed, Einstein continued to explore different approaches in his unified field theory. He worked extensively with five-dimensional theories throughout much of the 1930s, then moved on to a number of other ideas during the 1940s and 50s. But none of these approaches ever attempted to incorporate quantum mechanics.

In his thirty-year search for unified field theory, Einstein never found anything that could reasonably be called a success. Over these three decades, Einsteins fixation on classical field theories, and his rejection of quantum mechanics, increasingly isolated him from the larger physics community.

There were fewer and fewer thought experiments, and Einsteins physical intuition, once so famous, was pushed aside and replaced by endless pages of complicated interplaying equations. Even during the last days of his life, Einstein continued his search for the unified field theory, but nothing of consequence ever came of it.

When Einstein died in 1955, he was really no closer to a unified field theory than he was thirty years before.

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In recent decades, physicists have once again become interested in theories that could potentially combine and unify multiple facets of nature. In spirit, these theories have a lot in common with Einsteins dream of a unified field theory. But, in other ways, they are very different. For one thing, many important discoveries have been made since Einsteins death. And these discoveries have significantly changed how physicists view the prospect of building a unified field theory.

Einstein was entirely focused on electromagnetism and gravity, but physicists since then have discovered two new forces that exist in naturethe weak and strong nuclear forces. The strong nuclear force is the force that holds protons and neutrons together within the nuclei of atoms. And the weak nuclear force is responsible for certain radioactive decays, and for the process of nuclear fission.

Electromagnetism has a lot in common with these strong and weak nuclear forces. And it is not particularly hardat least in principleto construct theories in which these phenomena are unified into a single framework. Such theories are known as grand unified theories, or GUTs for short. And since their inception in the 1970s, a number of different grand unified theories have been proposed.

Grand unified theories are incredibly powerful, and in principle, they can predict and explain a huge range of phenomena. But they are also very hard to test and explore experimentally. Its not that these theories are untestable in principle. If one could build a big enough particle accelerator, one could almost certainly find out exactly how these three forces fit together into a grand unified theory.

But with the kinds of experiments we currently know how to buildand the kinds of experiments that we can afford to buildits just not possible to test most grand unified theories. There are, however, possible exceptions to this. One is that most of these theories predict that protons should occasionally decay. This is the kind of phenomena that can be tested. So far the limited tests have not been able to prove the Proton decay, but in future bigger tests are planned which could validate these theories.

But even grand unified theories are not as far-reaching as the kinds of unified field theories that Einstein spent so much of his life searching for. Grand unified theories bring together electromagnetism with the strong and weak forces, but they dont connect these phenomena with general relativity. But modern physicists are also looking for theories that can combine general relativity with the other forces of nature.

We hope that such a theory could unify all four of the known forcesincluding gravity. And since the aim of such a theory is to describe all of the laws of physics that describe our universe, we call this theory a theory of everything.

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The focus today, though, is on how to merge the geometric effects of general relativity with the quantum mechanical nature of our world. What we are really searching for, is a quantum theory of gravity.

The most promising theories of quantum gravity explored so far have been found within the context of string theory. In string theory, fundamental objects are not point-like particles, but instead are extended objects, including one-dimensional strings.

Research into string theory has revealed a number of strange things. For example, it was discovered in the 1980s that string theories are only mathematically consistent if the universe contains extra spatial dimensionsextra dimensions that are similar in many respects to those originally proposed by Theodor Kaluza.

Althoughstring theory remains a major area of research in modern physics, there isstill much we dont understand about it. And we dont know for sure whether itwill ever lead to a viable theory of everything.

In many ways, these modern unified theories have very little in common with those explored by Einstein. But in spirit, they are trying to answer the same kinds of questions. They are each trying to explain as much about our world as possible, as simply as they possibly can.

Einsteins unified field theory was an attempt to unify the fundamental theories of electromagnetic and general relativity into a single theoretical framework.

There are at least 10 dimensions of space in string theory, in addition to time which is considered as the 11th dimension. Although some physicists believe there are more than 11 dimensions.

Gravity is not a dimension. Its a fundamental force that is visualized as a bend in space and time.

In everyday life, we encounter three known dimensions: height, width, and depth which are already known for centuries.

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A Discovery That Long Eluded Physicists: Superconductivity to the Edge – SciTechDaily

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Researchers at Princeton have discovered superconducting currents traveling along the outer edges of a superconductor with topological properties, suggesting a route to topological superconductivity that could be useful in future quantum computers. The superconductivity is represented by the black center of the diagram indicating no resistance to the current flow. The jagged pattern indicates the oscillation of the superconductivity which varies with the strength of an applied magnetic field. Credit: Stephan Kim, Princeton University

Princeton researchers detect a supercurrent a current flowing without energy loss at the edge of a superconductor with a topological twist.

A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents the flow of electrons without wasting energy along the exterior edge of a superconducting material. The finding was published May 1 in the journal Science.

The superconductor that the researchers studied is also a topological semi-metal, a material that comes with its own unusual electronic properties. The finding suggests ways to unlock a new era of topological superconductivity that could have value for quantum computing.

To our knowledge, this is the first observation of an edge supercurrent in any superconductor, said Nai Phuan Ong, Princetons Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and the senior author on the study.

Our motivating question was, what happens when the interior of the material is not an insulator but a superconductor? Ong said. What novel features arise when superconductivity occurs in a topological material?

Although conventional superconductors already enjoy widespread usage in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and long-distance transmission lines, new types of superconductivity could unleash the ability to move beyond the limitations of our familiar technologies.

Researchers at Princeton and elsewhere have been exploring the connections between superconductivity and topological insulators materials whose non-conformist electronic behaviors were the subject of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for F. Duncan Haldane, Princetons Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Physics.

Topological insulators are crystals that have an insulating interior and a conducting surface, like a brownie wrapped in tin foil. In conducting materials, electrons can hop from atom to atom, allowing electric current to flow. Insulators are materials in which the electrons are stuck and cannot move. Yet curiously, topological insulators allow the movement of electrons on their surface but not in their interior.

To explore superconductivity in topological materials, the researchers turned to a crystalline material called molybdenum ditelluride, which has topological properties and is also a superconductor once the temperature dips below a frigid 100 milliKelvin, which is -459 degrees Fahrenheit.

Most of the experiments done so far have involved trying to inject superconductivity into topological materials by putting the one material in close proximity to the other, said Stephan Kim, a graduate student in electrical engineering, who conducted many of the experiments. What is different about our measurement is we did not inject superconductivity and yet we were able to show the signatures of edge states.

The team first grew crystals in the laboratory and then cooled them down to a temperature where superconductivity occurs. They then applied a weak magnetic field while measuring the current flow through the crystal. They observed that a quantity called the critical current displays oscillations, which appear as a saw-tooth pattern, as the magnetic field is increased.

Both the height of the oscillations and the frequency of the oscillations fit with predictions of how these fluctuations arise from the quantum behavior of electrons confined to the edges of the materials.

When we finished the data analysis for the first sample, I looked at my computer screen and could not believe my eyes, the oscillations we observed were just so beautiful and yet so mysterious, said Wudi Wang, who as first author led the study and earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 2019. Its like a puzzle that started to reveal itself and is waiting to be solved. Later, as we collected more data from different samples, I was surprisedat how perfectly the data fit together.

Researchers have long known that superconductivity arises when electrons, which normally move about randomly, bind into twos to form Cooper pairs, which in a sense dance to the same beat. A rough analogy is a billion couples executing the same tightly scripted dance choreography, Ong said.

The script the electrons are following is called the superconductors wave function, which may be regarded roughly as a ribbon stretched along the length of the superconducting wire, Ong said. A slight twist of the wave function compels all Cooper pairs in a long wire to move with the same velocity as a superfluid in other words acting like a single collection rather than like individual particles that flows without producing heating.

If there are no twists along the ribbon, Ong said, the Cooper pairs are stationary and no current flows. If the researchers expose the superconductor to a weak magnetic field, this adds an additional contribution to the twisting that the researchers call the magnetic flux, which, for very small particles such as electrons, follows the rules of quantum mechanics.

The researchers anticipated that these two contributors to the number of twists, the superfluid velocity and the magnetic flux, work together to maintain the number of twists as an exact integer, a whole number such as 2, 3 or 4 rather than a 3.2 or a 3.7. They predicted that as the magnetic flux increases smoothly, the superfluid velocity would increase in a saw-tooth pattern as the superfluid velocity adjusts to cancel the extra .2 or add .3 to get an exact number of twists.

The team measured the superfluid current as they varied the magnetic flux and found that indeed the saw-tooth pattern was visible.

In molybdenum ditelluride and other so-called Weyl semimetals, this Cooper-pairing of electrons in the bulk appears to induce a similar pairing on the edges.

The researchers noted that the reason why the edge supercurrent remains independent of the bulk supercurrent is currently not well understood. Ong compared the electrons moving collectively, also called condensates, to puddles of liquid.

From classical expectations, one would expect two fluid puddles that are in direct contact to merge into one, Ong said. Yet the experiment shows that the edge condensates remain distinct from that in the bulk of the crystal.

The research team speculates that the mechanism that keeps the two condensates from mixing is the topological protection inherited from the protected edge states in molybdenum ditelluride. The group hopes to apply the same experimental technique to search for edge supercurrents in other unconventional superconductors.

There are probably scores of them out there, Ong said.

Reference: Evidence for an edge supercurrent in the Weyl superconductor MoTe2 by Wudi Wang, Stephan Kim, Minhao Liu, F. A. Cevallos, Robert. J. Cava and Nai Phuan Ong, 1 May 2020, Science.DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw9270

Funding: The research was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office (W911NF-16-1-0116). The dilution refrigerator experiments were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DE- SC0017863). N.P.O. and R.J.C. acknowledge support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundations Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Initiative through grants GBMF4539 (N.P.O.) and GBMF-4412 (R.J.C.). The growth and characterization of crystals were performed by F.A.C. and R.J.C., with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF MRSEC grant DMR 1420541).

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Why Self-Awareness and Communication Are Key for Self-Taught Players and Luthiers – Premier Guitar

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With his signature guitar built by our columnist at the ready, Japanese artist Jinmo publicly celebrates each time he completes a deadline with a different pipe and the words, Banzai! Im free!

Its hard to believe, but this is my100th column for Premier Guitar. So, this month, Id like to allow myself to get a bit more personal and talk a little about what it means to be on this side of the desk. When I first started writing this column, it had a huge impact on my workflow by adding two additional deadlines to my already busy monthly schedule: an early one to decide on the topic for the month, and the submission deadline for PG. Im sure every colleague at PG knows the feeling of panic when searching for a subject and then collecting all the needed information with a deadline looming. I was certain I couldnt manage it for more than six months before needing a break. Well, here we are approaching nine years.

Its no secret that Im not an expert when it comes to vintage stuff, but often, historical contexts play an important role in why things have developed in a specific direction. The amount of information out there is vast, and its easy to overlook or misinterpret certain details when researching decades of developments and products. I feel pretty safe when it comes to physics, but Im also aware of the massive amount of collective expertise among PG readers regarding many topics. Luckily, I havent causedor dont know ofany remarkable shit storms so far!

Were all learning. Autodidacticism is self-learningself-taught education without the guidance of masters such as teachers and professors, or institutions like schools and universities. Interestingly, the number of autodidacts among musicians and luthiers is huge. But what does this mean for our expertise and skills?

Luckily, making and hearing music has such a high emotional value that a relatively small amount of self-taught playing skills can create rock-star fame. Similarly, simply knowing how to work with wood can result in a good instrument, but, in both cases, its more by accident than on purpose.

Its worth reminding self-learners about the dangers of knowledge gaps and the resulting risk of failing to correctly connect the dots.

Some argue that self-teaching is the ideal and only way of keeping a free mind, and that it often results in outsider art. However, self-learning can easily turn into cherry picking while quietly skipping all the difficult, unpleasant, and toilsome parts. Its worth reminding self-learners about the dangers of knowledge gaps and the resulting risk of failing to correctly connect the dots.

Its like a friend who wants to study quantum mechanics, but insists on skipping all classic physics. (As if there is any sort of real understanding in quantum mechanics anyway!) Or the one who likes to study astrophysics without the basic ballistics and equations of motion in gravity fields. Its pretty obvious that this kind of learning will end in dilettantism. As applicable to music, this is exactly what created the outsider genre, synonymous with self-taught, untrained, naive, and primitive.

Somehow, we are all doing self-teaching in certain areas of our lives, but there is a line before it becomes involuntarily comical due to a lack of self-awareness, incompetence to judge your own standing, and a lack of communication. Communicating with others is like getting your knowledge tested. A good example would be a luthier and marketing expert talking about physics and the acoustical outcome of their instruments, or me writing columns about vintage instruments.

Nobody can reach an expert level in all areas, so at least be aware of that, especially once you have professional ambitions as a musician or a luthier. Otherwise, proclamations like we use roasted maple for the neck, as the resonances are hardened in a marketing video, or there is no F# on a bass by a self-taught bassist can easily backfire.

Im here in hopes of helping to raise your knowledge about all things bass, and I look forward to continuing to do so. Thank you for your continued reading and commenting!

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What Is CBD Bioavailability, and Why Is It Important? – CSPDailyNews.com

Posted: May 8, 2020 at 11:14 am

When it comes to CBD, a term that is important to understand is bioavailability, which the American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines as the degree to which a drug or other substance is absorbed or becomes available at the site of physiological activity after administration. But what does that mean, and why does it matter when it comes to CBD?

Think about the bioavailability of CBD as the degree and rate it is absorbed into the bloodstream. In other words, the way CBD is consumed influences its uptake and distribution throughout the body. This is important for consumers to understand when shopping for CBD in order to figure out which products suit them best.

There are a variety of ways to take CBD. It can be inhaled, eaten, applied topically to the skin or held under the tongue and then swallowed. However, the body absorbs CBD in different ways, so how it is consumed matters. The method chosen influences how long it takes to be absorbed into the bloodstream and how much CBD is available to be absorbed.

Edible treats such as gummies and baked goods are a popular way to consume CBD. In multiple studies, the most optimistic rate of bioavailability when choosing this option was about 20%. That means if someone eats a 50-milligram CBD gummy, they would likely be absorbing only about 10 milligrams20% of the total dosage. Though not the most efficient way of consuming CBD, edibles are very popular and still have their benefits. They are a fun and easy way to add CBD to a daily routine. However, it is helpful to understand that some of the CBD is going to break down when passing through the digestive system, and it will take longer to reach the bloodstream to circulate throughout the body.

CBD oil tinctures are another common way to take CBD. With this method, CBD is administered sublingually, which means holding it under the tongue for a minute before swallowing. Sublingual dosing with an oil improves the bioavailability of CBD, because the glands under the tongue absorb the CBD and have a direct pathway to the bloodstream. Bypassing the digestive system allows the CBD molecules to reach the bloodstream quickly, without being metabolized by the stomach and liver first.

Inhaling CBD has a very effective bioavailability rate. CBD vape products and pre-rolled hemp flower joints are becoming widespread in the convenience market. They are popular and preferred by many because of how rapidly they work. When CBD is inhaled, the lungs absorb the compound immediately. Once CBD passes through the lungs, it quickly enters the bloodstream and circulates through the body. While inhaling CBD is a fast and effective method, it is not for everyone. Some consumers consider CBD to be a part of their wellness routine and worry about the potential adverse health effects of vaping CBD oil or smoking hemp flower.

Understanding the bioavailability of CBD allows consumers to decide what is important to them in a product. If they want a fun and easy way to take CBD, then CBD gummies or chocolates are ideal. If speed and cost-effectiveness are paramount, then a sublingual oil tincture or vape product may be best. This knowledge also helps retailers understand why offering a variety of forms of CBD is important for meeting customer demand in their stores.

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Analysis on New Product Launches in Covid-19 Related Markets-CBD Oil Market 2020-2024 | Health Benefits of CBD Oil To Boost Growth | Technavio -…

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Real Tested CBD Brand Spotlight: Endoca – SF Weekly

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At Real Tested CBD, we have numerous CBD products listed (with published test results from and independent lab) from a large number of different CBD manufacturers. We are adding new brands and products on a weekly basis, so make sure to check our best CBD products page frequently. This week, were reviewing the CBD brand Endoca.

Endoca is a retailer of CBD oils, CBD tinctures, full spectrum CBD products, and CBD capsules. They even have a CBD edible that takes the form of chewing gum. So far, all of the products that we have tested from Endoca have had very positive test results. All of Endocas CBD products have passed pesticide testing, and residual solvent testing. Below, we review some of the highest rated Endoca CBD products that we have tested so far.

Endoca Hemp Whipped Body Butter

The obvious first choice in the best Endoca CBD products that we have tested is their Hemp Whipped Body Butter. This CBD cream has without a doubt the highest concentration of all major cannabinoids that we test for. This CBD cream contains a whopping 153 mg of d9-THC, tests above the label claim for CBD by over 150 mg, and contains significant amounts of the rare cannabinoids that we look for. Endoca Hemp Whipped Body Butter contains 26 mg of CBN, 78 mg of CBC, and 12 mg of CBGwe highly recommend this product.

Endoca CBD Chewing Gum 150 mg

The next product from Endoca CBD that we are reviewing was not chosen for its extraordinarily high CBD/cannabinoid content, but rather due to the consumption method. Endoca CBD Chewing Gum 150 mg did, however, test very well. It passed both solvent & pesticide tests, contained over 50 mg more CBD than the label claimed, and its gum. How much easier does it get than that to receive a daily intake of CBD? We will warn youthis product is a full-spectrum CBD product, and tastes as such.

Endoca Raw CBD Oil 30 mg

The last product that we have chosen to review is Endoca Raw CBD Oil 30 mg. This CBD oil made this list, like many of Endocas products, because it contains all of the rare cannabinoids that we test for (CBD, CBN, CBG, THC, & CBC). Although, when we tested this product, it actually contained slightly less CBD than the label advertises, this product is highly recommended by Real Tested CBD, because of the other cannabinoids in it. This CBD oil from Endoca contains 256 mg of CBD, 14 mg of d9-THC, 4 mg of CBN, 8 mg of CBC, and 7 mg of CBG. We have found that it is rare for a CBD oil (being that there is such an abundance of different brands/products on the market) to contain all of these cannabinoids, and to cost less than $50.

If youre looking for some full-spectrum CBD products, take a look at Endoca CBD products on Real Tested CBD, and put them up to the test against the other brands we have reviewed! If youre a senior looking for a high-quality CBD oil, give Blue Ribbon Hemp a visit by clicking here!

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Dispelling the Myth That Cannabis Can Cure COVID-19 – Good Times Weekly

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The cannabis business, while populated largely by serious, well-intentioned people, has more than its share of crazies and mercenaries. Go take a look at just about any Internet forum devoted to cannabis, and you will find people trading in all kinds of conspiracy theories and making all kinds of wild claims both for and against cannabis.

Predictably, given the current state of civilization, some cannabis advocates and peddlers of elixirs now declare that their products can alleviate the symptoms of COVID-19or even cure it.

No one is as critical of the quacks than the marketers of legitimate products sold for legitimate uses and advocates of sensible, safe marijuana public policy. The Washington Post earlier this month published an op-ed written by Baltimore history teacher David A. Guba Jr. headlined: No, cannabis is not a miracle cure for COVID-19.

Its disheartening that such a message needs to be delivered to a mass audience, but the fact is that there is so much chicanery in the cannabis business that its now joining with essential oils and other quack cures as major presence in multi-level marketing schemes and in online marketing schemes like email spam and Facebook ads. Thats bad not only because people are getting ripped off and misled, possibly in dangerous ways, but also because CBD and some essential oils are also legit products with valid uses.

Peter Jonathan Hanna has more than 8,000 followers on Twitter. In his pinned tweet, he declares that Cannabis cures all diseases and that it is the most powerful medicine in history. Perhaps hes never heard of penicillin or perhaps he thinks it was a fake cure invented by the wicked masterminds of the pharmaceutical industry.

On March 31, Hanna, who is selling a book full of his thoughts about cannabis, proudly pointed to a High Times article that mentioned the Coronavirus cannabis prepper kit he was promoting on YouTube. The kit includes weed, food and a semi-automatic rifle.

The same day, Hanna tweeted: My family and I have the coronavirus. In a subsequent tweet on March 16, he said he was 99 percent sure they had the virus, and he posted a video on YouTube where he asked viewers to weigh in on the question. He hasnt mentioned it since, at least on Twitter, and he didnt respond to a message seeking comment.

If somebody with 8,000 followers can be said to be fringe, the same cant be said of former NFL player Kyle Turley, who has more than 48,000. Turley played offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints, the Kansas City Chiefs and the St. Louis Rams until 2007. He began using medical cannabis to address lingering pain from game injuries and to combat bouts of depression and rage, as the Los Angeles Times put it.

In mid-March, just as it became clear the pandemic would be severe, Turley started promoting a CBD product online. @NeuroXPF CANNABINOIDS CAN HELP BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AND WIN THE WAR AGAINST #COVID19 ask @ drsanjaygupta, he tweeted on March 19, pasting in an ad promising that the CBD oil would Boost Your Immune System and Crush Corona.

Turley is or was an owner of NeuroXPF, the company that makes the oil. He also is or was an owner of a cannabis dispensary in Moreno Valley, in Riverside County. After getting a warning letter from the Federal Trade Commission, which has taken a hard line on companies selling supposed COVID remedies, he claimed he had relinquished his stakes in those businesses, which has not been independently confirmed. He said selling off his ownership has freed him to speak as a private citizen.

And speak, or rather yell, he has. CANNABIS WILL PREVENT & CURE COVID19!!!!!!!..commence the hate, he tweeted on March 29. There is some research indicating that CBD and other cannabinoids can have calming effects, but much remains unknown about how that might work, whether it works similarly for everyone and whether its effective for every kind of emotional or behavioral malady.

Meanwhile, while its possible that some cannabis components might be antiviral agents, there is nothing like proof of it, much less any evidence that anything in the plant might be effective against COVID-19, a virus that is only months old. Nonetheless, the people making these claims point to this preliminary research as proof that cannabis will cure the virus.

Turley was still going strong this week. After having name-dropped Dr. Sanjay Gupta, one of the few TV-famous doctors who offer sound medical advice, Turley started yelling at him in all- caps, too, for not pushing cannabis as a treatment or cure for COVID-19. Gupta has in recent years become a careful advocate of medical cannabis, promoting it as a palliative for things like pain and seizure disorders only when theres evidence for the claims.

There are many, many more examples of people with large followings promoting pot as a cure for the virus. Filmmaker and outspoken Hindu nationalist Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri tweeted that Cannabis is a magic plant. The tweet was accompanied by a picture of what looked like a still from a news show reporting that Weed Kills Corona Virus. When it was pointed out to that the picture was a fake created on a meme site, he refused to back down. Agnihotri has 313,000 Twitter followers.

There is absolutely no proof or substantiated science indicating that somehow either cannabis or hemp cure or mitigate COVID-19, pot lawyer Hilary Bricken wrote on her firms blog. Businesses and consumers need to be on the lookout for snake-oil cures and/ or curative claims being shamelessly pedaled across the cannabis and hemp industries during this volatile time.

Prohibitionists are making crazy claims as well. When the Drug Policy Alliance promoted an online festival, the proceeds of which would be directed to COVID-19 relief, Kevin Sabet, founder and president of the anti- cannabis group tweeted: Were trying to stop people dying, and youre encouraging behavior that makes COVID-19 worse.

Asked by multiple people how an online festival could make the virus worse, Sabet asked whether the event was going to have anyone online using drugs and whether it would have messages promoting drug use.

The people making this claim have more of a leg to stand on than do the cure-promoting quacks, but just a bit. Many doctors warn that smoking or vaping could make COVID symptoms worse and make it harder for the lungs to fight off the disease, although new research from France shows that a strikingly low number of smokers have gotten sick from the virus.

In any case, the legit cannabis industry as a whole, including the Drug Policy Alliance, has repeatedly warned about the potential risks from smoking, and also warned pot users not to share smoking or vaping devices. Most have suggested using edibles until the pandemic has passed.

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Top 3 CBD Recipes to Try Over the Weekend – Plants Before Pills

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Make Thanksgiving extra special this year by serving the most delightful dishes infused with CBD oil. The added ingredient will enhance meals, making the food experience a bliss. Because cannabis heightens the sensory receptors, everything tastes better with a hint of umami.

If you worry about the side effects, note that with an adequate amount of cannabidiol oil, everything will turn out great. You can serve Turkey with CBD oil for added buttery taste minus the greasiness. Desserts can also have this exciting ingredient for sweet and flavorful cakes, cupcakes, or chocolates.

Aside from the cannabis oil, you also need cannabutter for making desserts and adding texture and flavor to the turkey. Cannabutter can be homemade, and some dispensaries have this specialty butter. Its only difference with the normal butter is that added cannabis oil.

For homemade cannabutter recipe, you can mix 1 cup of butter with 1 cup of ground, decarboxylated cannabis, about 10 grams. Slow cook the mixture for two to three hours then cool off before using.

Dosing is a crucial factor when cooking with cannabidiol oil. Applying a few drops into the recipe is already enough. Overdosing can only happen if you will put more oil into the recipe. Remember, if you plan to put CBD to entre, appetizers, and desserts, you need to balance out the dosing to avoid side effects like lightheadedness, dry mouth, and change in appetite.

The best thing to do is to take it easy on the oil, distribute it to other meals and you are good to go. Additionally, you need to find a good CBD productsupplier to get the desired results.

The main entre of the day is none other than Turkey. Make sure to buy a huge one to serve more batches during Thanksgiving.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Preheat oven and mix together cannabutter, chopped herbs, season with salt, and pepper in a small bowl.

2. Prepare and stuff the turkey. Fill in the neck cavity but avoid overstuffing. Tie two legs using cotton kitchen twine then bend wings underneath the bird. Position the turkey breast side down.

3. Rub cannabutter mixture into the skin and the rack before generously seasoning the turkey with salt and pepper. Roast for one hour then baste every 30 minutes.

4. Transfer turkey into the serving platter then let it cool for ten minutes.

5. Serve with gravy.

Instead of mashed potato, you can serve the turkey with mac n cheese on the side. This recipe is easy to make and you only need a fresh lobster to make it special.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

2. Bring macaroni to boil then add half a teaspoon CBD oil. Drain well after five to eight minutes, until cooked.

3. Heat the milk then add remaining CBD oil, flour. Mix until it thickened.

4. Off the heat, add the cheddar cheese, pinch of salt, pepper then stir well.

5. Add the cooked macaroni and lobster. Stir evenly and place in gratin dishes.

6. Melt butter and cheese with bread crumbs then bake for 35 minutes.

7. Cool then serve.

To cap off the lunch or dinner, serve a chocolate bar embedded with pistachio nuts. It is a quick bite and definitely delicious with a drizzle of salt.

Ingredients

Directions

1. Mix CBD oil and butter in a low heat pan then set aside.

2. Whisk in coconut flour and cocoa powder. Freeze for 10 minutes.

3. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and top with pistachio bits. Place back into the freezer for about 20 minutes.

4. Break apart and serve with vanilla ice cream.

Celebrating Thanksgiving doesnt need to be bland and dull because you can always serve new recipes for everyone. This year, surprise family and friends with these tasty meals.

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Surely Youve Tried CBD By Now? – British Vogue

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Whats become your lockdown coping mechanism? A fast and furious exercise regime? A daily dose of meditation? Or perhaps youve turned to CBD? One of the wellness industrys newest wonder ingredients, CBD tends to provoke mixed opinions. For some, its the holy grail of anxiety solutions. Others question whether it does anything at all; and some mistakenly think it might get them high. Divisive it may be, but CBD brands have recorded huge spikes in sales during the lockdown period. Premium brand Trip is a case in point, having witnessed a 420 per cent increase in sales since strict social distancing was introduced a figure that continues to rise daily.

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What can one ingredient actually do to help ease the pressure on the collective mental health of a nation? CBD works on a lot of levels in the body, says scientific advisor to The Drug Store Julie Moltke, whose book A Quick Guide To CBD is out in June. It interacts with and balances out the endocannabinoid system, as well as the serotonin system, which are involved in anxiety and depression. Studies have shown that CBD can help to reduce anxiety, as well as aid those with disorders like PTSD, OCD and SAD. A study conducted by Moltke herself found that, of those who take CBD, at least a third use it for stress and anxiety, and 75 per cent of those report that it reduces stress, she says. The majority of people use it for anxiety relief, says Olivia Ferdi, co-founder of Trip. But it can also be used for inflammation, pain relief, endometriosis and its even been medically proven to help the symptoms of epilepsy.

It slows down the mental overload that comes with anxiety and stress, conditions in which thought patterns can become repetitive. CBD helps create a bit more space in the mind, says Moltke, who likens our thoughts to a whirling glass of muddy water. Taking CBD helps it to settle, she says. When your thoughts (or the mud) come back down to the bottom of the glass, everything becomes more clear. Put simply, it regulates some of our innate systems in the body, creating more space and calming the mind.

Sounds like the perfect remedy for our fraught minds right now. In fact, in one survey, 39 per cent of consumers asked said they would be using more CBD as a result of the pandemic, and the figure rose to 49 per cent among millennials and Gen-Zers. Since Coronavirus hit were under way more stress, so CBD has become so much more relevant, says Ferdi. Anxiety has shape-shifted, and the way we look after ourselves our self-care rituals have come into question. Plant-based, preventative remedies taking as good care of yourself as is possible to fend off illness have become the new approach to our health.

Ferdi, who previously worked as a lawyer in the City, started Trip in 2018 after her now husband underwent knee surgery a few weeks before their wedding. He used CBD daily to minimise pain and inflammation, and made a miraculous recovery not just nailing the couples walk back up the aisle but also dancing all weekend, without crutches. The brand, which kicked off with a line of very tasty CBD-infused drinks, has been stocking an array of celebrity fans (Ellie Goulding included) fridges with its healthy, low calorie drinks, which are brilliant for easy CBD ingestion.

They taste good, too. Hemp [where CBD is extracted from] is very earthy and bitter, so the idea behind the drinks was to create something on-the-go, that was more understandable to a consumer and easy to enjoy, says Ferdi. We blended it with the adaptogen camomile [a herb thats said to alleviate stress], and natural botanical extracts that have good properties for stress in our bodies. Its CBD oils that have perhaps made the biggest market impact, however, and following a surge in demand in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, she and her team have accelerated the launch of Trips new oil, which is available on its website now and from Selfridges next week.

Despite having broken through in health and beauty circles, Ferdi maintains that, for some, CBD still doesnt feel approachable, something she attributes to the fact brands like hers are banned from using sponsored advertising. Everything from Google ads to Instagram advertising are all blocked, because theyre owned by American companies who, in some states, have banned CBD. You have to rely on the product itself to do the talking for you, as an absence of marketing means people often dont feel they have enough information to buy into the product, points out Ferdi. With something that is both closely linked to, and sounds like, cannabis, categorised as a class B drug in the UK, communicating your message can be tough.

Brands are doing what they can to change the perception of CBD. Trips new oil tinctures dont come in khaki packaging decorated with illustrated marijuana leaves, for example, but chic, millennial-friendly pastel droppers. With blends of wild mint and orange blossom (and camomile to help ease stress), the earthy taste is a thing of the past, too. Its a similar story at Lady A, another brand that acknowledges how confusing the CBD market can be, and seeks to offer a sleek take on the products available everything from a Morning Tincture to supplements in minimalist packaging. CBII has gone down the traditional brown bottle route, but made it an apothecary-style experience its new CBD capsules contain 5mg of CBD and make incorporating it into your routine as easy as taking a daily multivitamin. Kloris, too, is an excellent choice for those wanting to get started on their CBD journey.

And to the sceptics? Id say give it a go, see how you feel. If you dont feel much, think about upping your dosage there is no right or wrong way of trying this thing, but its potential benefits for lots of different people are super exciting, says Ferdi. And if it wasnt working? The press would stop talking about it.

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