MEDICALEAF, WELLNESS FROM NATURE… For millennia, cannabis has been utilised and revered for its medicinal and psychoactive properties; it is well documented that physicians from ancient cultures around the world used it to treat pain and other ailments. More recently, scientists have discovered remarkable medicinal effects: in test tubes, the molecule shielded neurons from oxidative stress, a damaging process common in many neurological disorders and provided the well-publicised ‘miracle’ to alleviate symptoms for epilepsy sufferers. CBD is one molecule from the cannabis plant and hailed as a therapeutic cure-all. Unlike the better-known ‘marijuana molecule’, THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD is not psychoactive, meaning it does not get users ‘high’.