All right, welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health. And today we have something very exciting to talk about a product that will absolutely contribute to your improved health that has been outlawed.

Yes, illegal in the United States for nearly a century since 1938

and that natural product is hemp, it's been vilified and thankfully Donald Trump signed into law the

farm bill at the closing of 2018 and now hemp is legal and to discuss and elaborate on the exciting potential

implications of this change in the law we have an expert in phytokinabonoids who is a board certified clinical nutritionist from the state of New York and it's Carl Gerano

Thank you, Dr.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Well, I'm very excited to discuss this topic.

So perhaps we can start, maybe to start about how the law has changed.

Would you've been following it very closely and just explain what that means and then help differentiate

that the difference between hemp and CBD products.

We're not the same even though CBD is in hemp, you can't sell a product with

hemp legally at least. Correct and in order to understand all of this is to kind

of distinguish and differentiate between hemp and marijuana because they seem to be interchangeable with people, but it is actually two different plants, so to speak.

Both are considered cannabis ativa by genus and species, but that's where the similarity ends.

hemp has been cultivated for many reasons and for the past few thousand years food clothing,

fiber, fuel and in the plant itself it contains these naturally occurring

active compounds called phytokininoids of which CBD is just one of them.

Marijuana on the other hand has been cultivated for its primary phytokininoid

THC and while it has recreational value at small levels it does have medicinal value.

Nevertheless, many decades ago hemp has been dumped into the definition of marijuana and hemp was dumped into the

Controlled Substances Act which kind of hampered its access, its ability to have

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