About Honest Hemp Girl Scout Cookie CBD E-Liquid (300mg)

Their CBD isolate is mixed with Propylene Glycol (PG) and Vegetable Glycerine (VG) in a 80/20 ratio, meaning that their CBD e-liquids will produce more of a “throat hit” and are more suited to smaller e-cigarettes and vaping devices.

How Much CBD E-Liquid Should You Use? 

Disposable and refillable CBD vapes and CBD pods can be enjoyed in the same way as nicotine smoking using e-cigarettes. Yet, CBD doesn’t have one-size-fits-all dosing and calculating a proper dosage of CBD can be tough as our bodies react to it differently.

The four major factors affecting your CBD dosage are:

• Your weight
• The condition being treated (i.e. depression, chronic pain etc)
• The severity of your condition
• The concentration of CBD

Most brands recommend customers start with the lowest dose and increase until they find the right serving size that fits their needs. The most common starting amount is between 10mg and 25mg. For anxiety and depression, the dose can vary from 20mg to 50mg or more.

As a rule of thumb, a person weighting between 10.5 and 17 stones (approximately 150 and 240 lbs) may need between 20mg and 40mg of CBD per day depending on the severity of their symptoms.

* FSA Guideline: The FSA recommends that healthy adults do not take more than 70mg of CBD daily, unless advised by a doctor.

When using CBD vapes for the first time, we would always recommend starting with a small dose and working your way up. Most people will start with a 10mg to 25mg of CBD per day to see how your body reacts to it.

If you are not seeing any major benefits with this amount of CBD, increase your intake by an additional 5mg every 3-5 days until finding the right balance to treat your personal symptoms.

Is it Possible to Consume Too Much CBD?

With CBD becoming an ever growing market, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has classified CBD as a food supplement and issued a number of recommendations on its website. It is the first country in the world to set recommended limits for CBD consumption and to advise against taking CBD for vulnerable groups – including pregnant women and people taking existing medication.

For healthy adults, the FSA recommends not to take more than 70mg a day, unless it has been advised by a doctor. This advice is based on the latest scientific information available to the FSA and levels given are for an average 70kg adult so one could deduct that the FSA has set a maximum target of 1mg of CBD per kg of bodyweight.

However, it is worth noting that several studies have found CBD to be safe at higher doses.

If you want to find out more check out our CBD Dosage article.

What Type of CBD is Best for Vaping?

There’s not really a best type of CBD. It all depends on your personal circumstances. Below are some of the pros and cons of using isolate vs full-spectrum CBD.

Full-spectrum CBD products are ideal for those who want to:

• Benefit from all of the naturally occurring cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids found in hemp
• Benefit from the entourage effect
• Ingest THC – albeit in small doses

CBD isolate is ideal for those who need to:

• Take larger doses of CBD as they will not increase their THC consumption
• Take regular drug tests and who may worry about THC showing up on their results. This is especially the case for people working in the armed forces, athletes or people working in banking / trading.

CBD Isolate: Best for Vaping

Whilst there are added benefits of using full and broad-spectrum products, it is worth noting that very few studies cover the suitability of whole plant CBD for vaping or inhaling.

A number of manufacturers have conducted their own toxicological assessments and have deemed whole plant hemp extract & full spectrum CBD oil unsuitable for use in the formulation of CBD e-liquid.

For this reason, the vast majority of CBD vape liquids on the market have been formulated using only CBD isolate.

Advantages of Honest Hemp CBD E-Liquids

CBD vaping has many advantages over other CBD products such as CBD oil, CBD gummies or CBD capsules.

• Easy to use and discreet – Whether you are vaping using traditional vaping juices or CBD infused e-liquids, most people will not be able to tell the difference especially since many e-liquids come in various flavours.
• Increased bioavailability – Inhalation is an efficient way to consume CBD because it bypasses the digestive tract and liver allowing CBD to be readily absorbed through the thin membranes that line the air sacs of the lungs (alveoli) where it enters directly into the bloodstream.
• Fast acting – Due to its increased bioavailability, CBD vaping will usually act much faster than other products that needs to go through the digestive tract.
• Great tasting – Whilst traditional CBD oil will usually have an earthy or grassy taste, CBD e-liquids will usually be flavoured with agents such as raspberry, lemon, strawberry, peach or blackcurrant making it a great tasting alternative to oils which tend to leave an unpleasant aftertaste in your mouth.
• No addictive or withdrawal issues – Finally, CBD e-liquids are a natural remedy that can be taken by almost anyone and possesses none of the addictive or withdrawal issues that other pain management or anxiety medications may present.

Honest Hemp CBD Reviews

By focusing on developing a wide range of good quality broad-spectrum and isolate CBD products priced well below some of their other competitors, Honest Hemp have become a well-respected CBD brand in the UK. The company has just over 80 verified reviews on Trustpilot, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 5. This is a good rating, although we would have expected a company established in 2015 to have hundreds, if not thousands of reviews by now.

Is CBD Vaping Legal?

CBD is legal in the UK as long as the plant which have been grown contain less than 0.2% of THC, the legal limit in the UK. The reason for this is that THC is known to be a psychotropic substance and limiting the amount of THC ensures that CBD is safe to consume and will not have any psychoactive effects. In other words, CBD won’t get you “high”.

Personal Use

You will not be arrested or fined for buying, consuming or carrying CBD products, anywhere in the UK, as long as it has less than 0.2% THC in it.

What is illegal is to grow the hemp plant(s) yourself, at home. Growth for personal use is strictly prohibited by the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971. To do so, could result in up to 5 years in prison and/or an unlimited fine.

New Regulations & Guidelines

As CBD is eaten or drunk it falls under “novel foods”, which means that the Food Standards Agency (FSA) oversees CBD products and they can therefore enforce new laws and regulations and they have recently done so.

Since the 31st of March 2021, all CBD products must be approved by the FSA in order to be sold in the UK. Failure to do so will result in the products being removed from the shelf. This request for approval means that the exact ingredients within a CBD will be known, making it safer for the general public.

Honest Hemp CBD E-Liquid Lab Reports

As a CBD company, Honest Hemp plays the transparency card with their customers.

Since many CBD products contain pesticides, herbicides, mould, fungi and dangerous mycotoxins, Honest Hemp are working closely with Phytovista Labs, a leading CBD laboratory testing service, to test all their CBD oils..

In addition to being sourced and extracted from the highest-grade certified organic US hemp, they guarantee that their products are 100% organic and free of synthetic ingredients.

They allow customers to see their Certificates of Analysis online for each product line available in their site. Each lab report then breaks down the potency of cannabinoids, the presence of terpenes and flavonoids, as well as the absence of heavy metals, mycotoxins, pesticides or microbes.

Health Benefits of Honest Hemp CBD E-Liquid

The human body contains a specialized system called the ECS (the endocannabinoid system), which aim is to regulate a variety of functions such as sleep, appetite, pain and immune system response. The body also produces endocannabinoids, which are simply neurotransmitters that bind to cannabinoid receptors in your nervous system.

CBD is believed to interact with specific receptors, specifically the CB1R and CB2R.

• CB1 receptors, which are located in various regions of the body, with a large concentration in the central nervous system and brain, co-ordinate mood, emotion, appetite, and other functions.
• CB2 receptors are more commonly found in the immune system and are responsible for controlling inflammation and pain. CBD stimulates these receptors and induces the body to release serotonin.

Serotonin, or 5-HT, is a neurotransmitter that carries signals from one neuron to the other. CBD increases the level of serotonin, which, in return, helps reduce pain, reduce inflammation as well as provide a range of other health benefits, which include:

• CBD for Pain Relief: CBD has analgesic (pain relief) properties and can help with many painful conditions such as arthritis, headache disorders, migraines, back pain or period pain.
• CBD for Sleep: CBD has a calming effect on both the mind and the body, allowing people to fall asleep more easily and stay asleep throughout the night.
• CBD for Stress: CBD helps reduce stress and calm both the body and mind, through its interaction with both the Hippocampus and the Amygdala.
• CBD for Anxiety: CBD has both anti-anxiety and antidepressant properties, and can be a great alternative to anxiety medications which have known side-effects.
• CBD for Headaches: CBD reduces the frequency of headaches as well as reduce stress and improve sleep, two major triggers of headaches. But CBD also has strong analgesic (pain relief) and antiemetic (prevent vomiting) properties which can help people with headache disorders during an attack.
• CBD for Arthritis: CBD has antiarthritic, analgesic (pain relief) as well as anti-inflammatory properties and as such is a great option for people suffering from arthritis.
• CBD for Cancer: CBD helps relieve some of the symptoms of cancer as well as reducing the side of effects of cancer medication such as nausea, vomiting and pain.
• CBD for Epilepsy: CBD helps reduce the frequency and intensity of seizures in epileptic patients, and may also counteract some of the side effects of traditional anti-epileptic.