The fascinating story of coffee and cannabis – leafie

There are many people across the world who enjoy a smoke with their mid-morning espresso and now, this love affair has crossed over into the CBD industry, with CBD infused coffee being a firm best-seller.

While chilling in a field, these ordinarily laid back animals started acting seriously hyped up, so the herder investigated a plant they’d been grazing on.

In 1511, coffee was banned in Mecca for being ‘a dangerous intoxicant that inspired radical thinking’.

Used, like coffee as a medicine – a treatment for epilepsy and in Chinese medicine for the treatment of rheumatism, malaria, poor memory, gout and much more besides.

Even under the staunch rules of Catholic and Protestant Britain, Henry VIII would actually fine farmers if they didn’t grow an acre of hemp for the country’s industrial and medicinal use for every 60 acres of agricultural crops.

He continued this all out war on coffee for years, but the resistance from coffee drinkers and coffee shop owners was so strong that he was never successful in keeping it illegal for long.

As a result, after a long history of prohibition, money-making prevailed and coffee was rolled out as a ‘drink for the workers’.

In contrast, cannabis has fallen into the realm of disgrace – a dirty, dangerous drug, not the medicinal, recreational and industrial wonder it once was.

As it turns out, coffee interacts with the endocannabinoid system , like cannabis.

On it’s own, this could be seriously detrimental to health, unless you happen to have an over-active ECS which is also indicated to be related to plenty of health issues, including obesity.

If the perception of coffee can change as radically as history shows, so can cannabis.

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