If I may, I'd like to comment a bit on the Legality of Hemp Oil (AKA: CBD oil).
First I'd like to say, I appreciate all the opinions that were shared and I clearly understand.
Industrial Hemp and Marijuana, each have over 100 different cannabinoid compounds, One of them is Cannabidiol (CBD).
I've done a ton of reading on CBD after it seemed to work for me.
I know that Marijuana (THC) is Federally classified as a Schedule I drug, making it illegal, even if some states have legalized it.
The 2018 Federal Farm Bill legalized Industrial Hemp Extract (another name for CBD), but must NOT contain more than .03% THC to be legal to use, possess, transport, or ship in all 50 states.
Until 2015, Industrial Hemp was illegal to grow in Minnesota. In 2015 MN passed a law to make it a crop that farmers can legally grow. There are some regulations and testing required to grow it, but it is not very restrictive. It uses are actively being studied by the U of M and they are also working on developing a market for the plant extract, seeds, seed oil, and the fiber. It should also be stated, that depending on how Industrial Hemp is processed into Extract, there can be all the cannabinoid compounds from the plant, or if it's decarbed, some of those compounds can change and may be less or more effective.
There is a organic hemp farmer in our brethren of bullet casters. He is the one who turned me onto this. Each batch of his oil has been tested per State law and he includes that info with each container of his product. I have used his products as well as some from a couple other sources, as a cross-over test. I also abstained from all CBD for 4 weeks starting in late December for another test, at the request of my family Doctor, because of a scheduled colonoscopy.
Some testing/data collection is being done.
Minnesota has legalized medical Marijuana oil, a couple years ago. The Law is very restrictive, the most restrictive legalization in any state. They are continually researching the Effects of THC as well as CBD. The two companies that are licensed to grow and are producing the Medical Marijuana oils (that is all that Minnesota legalized) are continuing to collect data from patients to test different oils ...some with high THC and low CBD, some with low THC and High CBD, and some with no THC (less than .03%) and varying amounts of CBD. Anyway, there is Data that shows CBD has anti inflammatory properties, so it is likely to reduce pain caused by inflammation. BUT...do I have links to double blind studies? No I don't.