You might have seen it in your neighborhood health store, your local spa or your corner coffee shop. CBD, aka cannabidiol, is getting mixed into cocktails, lotions and drinks.

Hemp's Big Year: Another year, another long list of victories, defeats and dumpster fires for Colorado cannabis. Social consumption, Sweet Leaf's legal woes and concerns about Jeff Sessions continued to impact pot businesses and consumers, while political wins for Jared Polis and the national hemp industry gave proponents of the plant hope.

The moment the hemp industry has been waiting for finally happened: President Donald Trump just signed the 2018 Farm Bill, legalizing industrial hemp in the United States.

After recruiting 66 students (half of whom were deemed cannabis consumers and half non-users) and administering basic questionnaires, Auburn University Ph.D. candidate J. Yanes conducted a series of experiments to discern how cannabis use influences pain.