Hello World!  Hope you’re having a great day! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!! 

Rain has stopped here & it’s cooled down quite a bit. The sun is trying to come out so it should be a nice afternoon. Today I’ll share some info about the benefits of cannabis for women, but I want to begin with a funny story.

I always use the self check when I shop so I don’t have to tell someone,

who doesn’t listen anyway, how to pack my groceries.  Well, the machine told me I needed help, so I got the girl who was supposed to be watching what was going on (but she was busy playing with balloons instead). When she finally came over, the code it gave her meant I bought cough syrup & she had to be sure I’m “over 18”.  Well, I had a good laugh about that & I told her to multiple that number a few times. I needed that laugh… 🙂

Is Cannabis the Women’s Wellness Cure We’ve Been Waiting for?

No matter how you feel about it, cannabis is a fast-growing facet of the

wellness industry. 60% of Americans support legalized marijuana—& for good reason. Cannabis has been shown to help with anxiety, chronic pain, blood sugar regulation, seizures, inflammation & so much more. But cannabis may also help in an oft unaddressed area of wellness: women’s sexual health.

Women’s Sexual Health is notoriously undervalued. Many women have

difficulty having an orgasm or relaxing during sex, while others experience crippling symptoms of menstruation, like bad cramps & heavy nausea. Not enough has been done in the wellness world to support women’s healthy sexuality. Cannabis has the power to change that.

Cannabis has been used by cultures for millennia to enhance sexuality &

the sexual experience. In a profound way, it can help modern day women have both healthier sexual experiences as well as more tolerable menstrual cycles. While it may seem odd, using cannabis to support a healthy sex life makes sense. After all, cannabis promotes muscle relaxation & increased blood flow, both of which are essential for a healthy sex life.

This therapeutic value is what led Mathew Gerson to found FORIA, a line of cannabis suppositories & sprays designed specifically for people with vaginas.

Mathew Gerson, FORIA’s co-CEO/creator, is no stranger to the business of making sex safer & healthier. As creator & former CEO of Sir Richard’s condoms, he worked to make condoms cooler & more accessible to those who really need them. Now, he’s on to help women have healthier & more empowered sex lives with FORIA’s cannabis vaginal products.

FORIA is a line of vaginal suppositories & vaginal sprays that infuse cannabis with vaginal-friendly oils like liquid coconut oil & organic cocoa butter. Their popular, aptly named products include Pleasure & Relief.

Pleasure is a sexual enhancement oil that promotes relaxation, increases

blood flow to reproductive organs & the current line offers a mild psychoactive effect. It contains solely THC & works as a pre-lube, applied a few minutes before things get frisky. While I haven’t tried it personally, it has received rave reviews. Women claim it has made sex more powerful, emotional & sensual. Some experience multiple powerful orgasms. Others claim it allows them to fully enjoy sex for the first time. And that is truly a beautiful thing. Pleasure seems to help women who experience pain, discomfort or anxiety during sex to finally begin relishing in their sexuality & enjoy it.

Suffer from killer menstrual cramps, back pain & headaches when it’s

that time of the month? Relief has been formulated to have no psychotropic effect (meaning it won’t get you high) & is designed to help ease the symptoms of menstruation. It contains both THC & CBDs. When you insert it into the uterine area with a tampon applicator, CBDs directly affect the immune system & nerve endings within the uterus, ovaries, cervix & surrounding tissues to suppress inflammation & relax muscles to reduce cramping. THC helps to block pain signal in the nerves to reduce discomfort. Think of Relief as a natural, more effective Midol, without the serious side effects, potential drug interactions, artificial colorings or fancy pharmaceutical patent.

Currently, both Relief & Pleasure are only available in California & Colorado, but Gerson says they’re working to get their products in to recently legalized states soon.

If you don’t live in cannabis friendly states, a cool new product, Awaken, will be released in March that’ll be legal in all 50 states, regardless of marijuana laws. It’ll be a lubricant like Pleasure, but comprised of the whole plant extract of organic hemp, meaning it’ll have the potent therapeutic benefits of most cannabinoids without any of the psychoactive effects of THC.  I think that’s pretty exciting!

“We need to holistically look at our health & be citizen scientists for our

own bodies. We have forgotten that you have a right to understand your own body & don’t need to wait for the upper echelons of the health industry to tell us something is good. Figure it out for yourself.”

When I asked what Gerson would say to those who still cling to the negative stigma that has followed cannabis in recent decades, he said:

“We need to be really sensitive to other attitudes & beliefs & respect them. We need to allow people to have their positions & learn [about cannabis’s medicinal benefits] through first & secondhand experiences.”

“Tell people, do your research. Look at the research on how cannabis has

helped so many sick people as it’s the most transformative way to share cannabis is to inspire the empathy response… We’re at the vanguard here, & the diversity of benefits being discovered is almost daily, with all the studies being published, I believe in 5 to 10 years, cannabis will completely separate itself from the long shadow that’s been cast over it.”

Cannabis has the potential to be tremendously beneficial for not only women, but our health & wellness as a culture. Perhaps cannabis has

a future in your medicine cabinet, having so many beneficial uses & no serious side effects. In fact, Gerson thinks cannabis is a uniquely loving plant with both medicinal & cultural value:

“It is really a very compassionate plant [cannabis], I can say that for sure. It loves us as it dulls pain & increases the good feels. We’ve co-evolved with this plant; in fact, our bodies have receptors that specifically interact with it. We’ve grown together.”

And it seems true. Cannabis must love us. It has empowered the health of so many people, from inconsolable seizure patients to women who have long suffered with sexual dysfunction.  Who knew a humble plant could so powerfully revolutionize the modern wellness industry?

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This is good, powerful information so I had to share, &  it seems they daily discover new & beneficial uses for cannabis for everyone…

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