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5 movies that explore the CBD industry

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5 movies that explore the CBD industry

Lately, CBD has taken the world by storm with its numerous benefits. Cannabidiol is the component of the cannabis plant that’s non-psychoactive, meaning it won’t give you the high feeling like other components do. Plus, as there are three types of CBD (full-spectrum, broad spectrum, and isolate), you can choose the perfect one for you according to your tolerance.

The cannabis plant may relieve pain and reduce symptoms related to some mental health disorders, can benefit heart health and may have neuroprotective properties. If you’re interested in trying such products, consider companies that provide proof of third-party testing by a compliant lab, and the products pass the tests for pesticides, heavy metals and molds.

Aside from these facts, the CBD industry is more prominent in the entertainment industry. One reason would be to spread awareness about an issue that would be taboo a few years ago. Still, it’s also a fascinating subject regarding the planting and harvesting of cannabis. So, let’s see what some movies are about CBD that you could enjoy!

CBD Nation (2020)

This documentary explores the research and evidence surrounding CBD. You’ll be following the discoveries of some of the world’s leading experts in the field (Dedi Meiri PhD or Dr Ethan Russo), examining the emotional stories of patients who choose CBD to improve their quality of life.

The director, David Jakubovic, wanted to review the levels of research because the US published studies, but they were left in the shadows. They have revealed what we get to know today: that CBD is an effective treatment for depression, nausea, tumor reduction and many other conditions. The movie will delve into the scientific side of the plant, and you can even check out the resources on the movie’s website.

CBD Nation is rated 8.2/10 on IMDb and is one hour and 23 minutes long, so the information is easily structured for you to grasp. If you’re not convinced about the movie’s impact, Forbes wrote an article on some of the most powerful takeaways from the documentary.

Kings of Kush (2021)

This is actually a TV series hosted by Anthony Sullivan. The story is pretty emotional: when his daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder, Anthony searched for the best treatment, and this is when he discovered CBD and started his own farm.

You’ll be following his attempt to learn as much as possible about this plant, as his purpose is to educate his audience about CBD’s potential benefits and features. In the series, he recruits one of his friends to help him prep the land, plant the seeds and look for a processing facility. The first season has ten episodes, each about 20 minutes long. Although it’s not that popular (as you can see on the rating sites), Kings of Kush is worth the watch if you plan on starting your own farm or seeing how CBD products are currently made and manufactured.

If you’ve already watched the series and are looking for CBD products, here are some of the best sellers from OCN, where you can purchase CBD flowers, vapes, gummies and another premium, organic and sustainable products.

American Hemp (2019)

Unlike the previous movies, American Hemp focuses on the industry and how hemp farmers and state regulators change throughout one year. You will be able to see how the raw hemp is harvested and then transformed into products that you can find on the shelves of American stores. If you are not familiar with how CBD products are made, this is the best documentary for you.

You’ll be surprised to find that in hemp farms, workers perform a full spectrum of activities in order to have high-quality products. Luckily, there is a second movie titled American Hemp: The Evolution Continues, where you’ll meet a CBD start-up founder and follow his story as he’s trying to make a living out of this growing industry.

Both movies are about one hour long, but as they’re not that popular, they have only a few ratings.

Grass is Greener (2019)

Next, we have a more socio-political approach to the use of CBD. This documentary from 2019 focuses on historical facts about hemp from the ’30 to our day, but with main characters such as Bob Marley and Snoop Dog, who are known for consuming many cannabis products. Overall, it emphasizes musicians’ personal stories about CBD, as well as their musical careers. The hip-hop legend, Fab Five Freddy, will interview the celebrities, but the timeline starts in the 1920 jazz era with Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday.

The documentary takes a look at America’s relationship with cannabis in the past decades, so it also addresses other subjects, such as substance abuse and biased laws. It’s ranked with 7.1 stars out of ten, and it has good reviews from IMDb users, so you should give it a try, as it’s only one hour and 37 minutes long. You can find this documentary on Netflix.

Emperor of Hemp (1999)

Getting more in-depth about the evolution of industrial hemp, this movie is about Jack Herer. He became known as the “Emperor of Hemp”, as he dedicated his life to educating people about the utilization of hemp and trying to end marijuana prohibition.

Jack Herer wrote a book called “The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Official Hemp Bible”, where he documents all the uses of the cannabis plant. He stated that “hemp could save the world”, which eventually became true, as this plant has become a very efficient treatment for certain diseases, illnesses and conditions.

The movie is one hour long, and it’s also got 7.1/10 reviews on IMDb. The book is also preached for the quality content, so you should give them both a try.

The Food and Drug Administration agency has approved one CBD product to be safely prescribed and used by people who have epilepsy, called Epidolex. And more research is done to discover future CBD treatments, but it’s proof that CBD is really effective, safe and can change medicine.

Skullcrusher Shares New Songs ‘They Quiet the Room’ and ‘Quiet the Room’

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Skullcrusher Shares New Songs ‘They Quiet the Room’ and ‘Quiet the Room’

Skullcrusher has unveiled two new songs, ‘They Quiet the Room’ and ‘Quiet the Room’. Following lead single ‘Whatever Fits Together’, they’re both set to appear on her forthcoming debut album Quiet the Room and come paired with videos made in collaboration with Silken Weinberg. Listen and watch below.

“’Quiet the Room’ is the first song I wrote for the album although I didn’t know it yet,” Skullcrusher (aka singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine) explained in a statement. “It felt like opening a secret door into a new world. I wrote it on the piano I grew up with and inevitably felt the presence of my childhood self. This would linger with me throughout the process of making the record.” She continued:

Simply put, the song is about communication and isolation, the kind experienced by a child that influences their journey into adulthood. I was thinking about my childhood bedroom but also an unknown room, surreal and empty but for the weighted presence of things unsaid. The basis of the recording is a live performance I did at Dreamland studios in Woodstock, NY. From that take we added field recordings and room ambience (crickets, creaking, doors opening and closing, footsteps, etc…). It wasn’t until a year later that I revisited the song as the beginning of this album.

I had a thought to write an alternate version of the song with different chords on guitar. This version, ‘They Quiet the Room’ became a different song entirely. It shifted the tone of the lyrics and instead of a dark room I imagined playing outside in the daytime, lost in some fantasy world. The two together, ‘They Quiet the Room’ into ‘Quiet the Room,’ are like the passing of a day. Perhaps one spent as a child making up imaginary games outside before returning inside for dinner, crossing over some kind of barrier as dusk settles, to have dinner or sit at the piano alone.

Of the accompanying visuals, she added:

The video for ‘Quiet the Room’ came together at the last, but oh so right, moment. A sort of shrine to childhood, we spent much of the process arranging my personal tchotchkes into an intricate still life. We decided that I would make a drawing throughout the video and that this would add movement and intimacy to an otherwise still composition. As we worked, we thought of Walter Wick’s classic I Spy books, the Nancy Drew computer games Silken [Weinberg, creative director] and I both grew up playing (and still play) and the notion of collecting ‘treasure’ as a child. Shot on digicam, we wanted to contrast the crisp outdoors captured in ‘They Quiet the Room’ with a warm, candle lit, home-footage-esque interior. Through the window, we see a deeply personal moment, one that I felt I had experienced before, alone but surrounded by objects I’ve carried with me.

Weinberg commented: “Helen and I love a good quest so we set out for the forest, where land meets sea. We wanted to revisit the feeling of playing outside all day, in your own imaginary world, and then having to go inside, either for dinner or to sleep. It felt oddly appropriate to convey this state of make believe in an ultra vivid, hyperreal way; an attempt to explore how your unseen fantasies are physically manifested and witnessed by the outside world.”

Quiet the Room is set to land on October 14 via Secretly Canadian.

PONY Releases New Single ‘Peach’

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PONY Releases New Single ‘Peach’

PONY, the Toronto project led by Sam Bielanski, has released a new single called ‘Peach’. Check it out below.

Talking about the track, Bielanski said in a statement:

I think Peach is probably the most vulnerable song I have ever written,” Bielanski said After all, what’s more vulnerable than a Peach?

Some years ago I found myself in a relationship with someone who initially treated me like I was so special. But little by little the love seemed more and more conditional. With every bit they tried to control what I wore, who I talked to, and what I did – I lost a part of myself. It took me years to realize I was completely gone and I mistook abuse and manipulation for love. Peach is about realizing that someone who wants to have control over you is not someone who loves you.

PONY’s debut album, TV Baby, arrived last year. The band recently dropped the single ‘Did It Again’ and wrapped a tour with Fucked Up. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with PONY.

Field Medic Shares New Single ‘i think about you all the time’

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Field Medic Shares New Single ‘i think about you all the time’

Field Medic, the project of LA-based musician Kevin Patrick Sullivan, has released a new single titled ‘i think about you all the time’. It’s the second offering from his upcoming album grow your hair long if you’re wanting to see something that you can change, following lead cut ‘i had a dream that you died’. Check it out below.

“‘i think about you all the time’ is a love song to alcohol & younger days,” Sullivan explained in a press release. “It’s a sort of sequel to my song ‘i will not mourn who i was that has gone away’. I was struggling in my sobriety with some difficult life situations & wished I had the option of pressing the off switch that binge drinking has afforded me in the past. I had just written a song called ‘I hate being sober’, which was a pretty negative way to frame the subject, so I set out to make a song that spoke of my longing in a way that sounded light & sweet. I wanted it to sound like a love song so it could speak to anyone who’s missing anything, be it a person or in my case; a substance.”

Field Medic’s new LP comes out October 14 via Run For Cover Records. ”Music is definitely a vessel for some form of healing,” Sullivan said in an earlier statement. “Sometimes the best way to get out of your own head is to just get to work. Making this album helped me find my happiness again.”

Beth Orton Releases New Song ‘Friday Night’

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Beth Orton Releases New Song ‘Friday Night’

Beth Orton has released ‘Friday Night’, the third preview of her upcoming seventh LP Weather Alive. It comes with a self-directed video shot in Hydra, Greece. Watch and listen below.

Orton had this to say about ‘Friday Night’ in a statement:

Friday Night is someone reflecting on, and trying to decide, what to give up or what to surrender to. Passion or ambivalence? Whether to “bleed or rust in the rain.”

Most of us are struggling to make sense of where to put the love we have for those that are lost to us, let alone the ones that remain. Sometimes there is no right answer except to find the wisdom in the spaces between the endings and beginnings, in the remembrance of things past or in search of lost time, there are always re-percussions to the choices we make. We are listening to the internal dialogue of someone living it out, what is futile and what is worth fighting for, and trying to do as little damage along the way. Friday night being the night that makes the week more bearable, there is hope.

Coming to realise what is real and what is out of reach can be unbelievably painful, waking up to the love that remains can be the greatest gift and the most wonderful surprise. Even in absence there is presence, there is no escape but to look for where the love is still alive within us.

Weather Alive is due for release on September 23 via Partisan Records. So far, Orton has previewed it with the single ‘Forever Young’ and the title track.

Carla dal Forno Announces New Album ‘Come Around’, Shares Video for New Song

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Carla dal Forno Announces New Album ‘Come Around’, Shares Video for New Song

Carla dal Forno has announced her next album, Come Around, which will be out on November 4 via her own Kallista Records imprint. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the record’s title track, alongside a video edited by Ludovic Sauvage. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.

“’Come Around’ was inspired by a guy I used to play in a band with. I really admired the way he played guitar,” dal Forno explained in a statement. “He had this laid back strum that was effortless and cool. I was mucking around at home one day trying to imitate the way he played and I wrote ‘Come Around.’” Further adding: ”I wrote the song during a carefree springtime and I loved working on it while recording this album. There’s a lightness and openness to it, which I feel quite liberated by. It reminds me of a life I once had with very few responsibilities.”

Carla Dal Forno’s last album was 2019’s Look Up Sharp.

Come Around Cover Artwork:

Come Around Tracklist:

1. Side By Side
2. Come Around
3. The Garden of Earthly Delights
4. Stay Awake
5. Autumn
6. Mind Your On
7. Slumber [feat. Thomas Bush]
8. Deep Sleep
9. Caution

Nick Hakim Announces New Album ‘COMETA’, Unveils Video for New Song ‘Happen’

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Nick Hakim Announces New Album ‘COMETA’, Unveils Video for New Song ‘Happen’

Nick Hakim has announced a new album called COMETA. The follow-up to 2020’s WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD is slated for release on October 21 via ATO Records. Lead single ‘Happen’, which features contributions from Alex G on piano and Abe Rounds on drums, arrives today with an accompanying video directed by Johan Carlsson and shot at Roy Andersson’s Studio 24 in Sweden. Check it out below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.

“The idea for the video is very simple, we see people on a subway, all busy with their different lives, some are in great spirits and some in deep thoughts maybe because of trouble at work or in their personal life,” Carlsson explained in a statement. “Sometimes when you’re in a public space you’re not interested in your fellow human beings at all and sometimes looking at them is so interesting that you can’t stop.”

“I hope this video can be an example of when people are interesting to look at, in a way that helps you reflect on your own life,” he continued. “I think Nick’s music is fantastic and has a cinematic and visual quality I hope comes through in the video.”

COMETA includes collaborations with DJ Dahi, Helado Negro, and Arto Lindsay. Commenting on the themes of the album, Hakim said: “The key is to find that extremity of love for yourself. It’s about growing into someone you want to be; it’s about finding pure love within yourself when the world around us seems to be crumbling.” He added, “I think it’s nice to have love in your life and to have people that are sharing and wanting that. It’s my interpretation of a really romantic way to express love in my own way.”

COMETA Cover Artwork:

COMETA Tracklist:

1. Ani
2. Happen
3. Vertigo
4. Feeling Myself
5. M1
6. Only One
7. Perfume
8. Something
9. Slid Under
10. Market

Poster Paints (Carla J Easton and Simon Liddell) Share New Song ‘Circus Moving On’

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Poster Paints (Carla J Easton and Simon Liddell) Share New Song ‘Circus Moving On’

Poster Paints, the new project of Carla J Easton and Frightened Rabbit’s Simon Liddell, have shared a new song, ‘Circus Moving On’. Following previous singles ‘Falling Hard’ and ‘Never Saw It Coming’, the song is lifted from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, which is out on October 14 via Ernest Jenning Record Co./Olive Grove Records. Give it a listen below.

Vocalist Carla J Easton said of ‘Circus Moving On’ in a statement:

Walking the fine line between regret and not caring about choices made. One of those songs. You meet someone and it’s doomed to fail but you stretch it out as far as it will go. Needing the darkness in order to shine. The criticism. Being drawn to people that aren’t good for you and unable to leave or let go. The fleeting moments where everything seems fine and happy – the excitement and elation of something beginning and trying to hang and hold on to that feeling. Sonically – this is our orchestral blowout on the album.

We worked remotely with Andrew Jin Chung based in Canada for the beautiful string arrangements that really made the final recording soar. The initial idea was built around Mellotron sounds after a discussion about how much we both loved the song ‘All My Happiness Is Gone’ by Purple Mountains. Subconsciously that was perhaps a jumping off point for the lyrics and combining the classic sad/happy juxtaposition between words and sound. It’s not the Poster Paints sound you might be expecting but it’s one of our favourites on the album and is a joy to play live.

Jake Whiskin Announces Debut Album, Collaborates With Lizzie Reid on New Song

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Jake Whiskin Announces Debut Album, Collaborates With Lizzie Reid on New Song

Leeds singer-songwriter Jake Whiskin has announced his self-titled debut album, which will arrive via Dance to the Radio on November 4. The lead single, ‘Drive You Home’, is a collaboration with Glaswegian songwriter Lizzie Reid. Check it out below.

“’Drive You Home’ is a song about a relationship that’s on its last legs and plays out over a firework display whilst you internalise how much you’ve grown apart over the years,” Whiskin explained in a press statement. “I pretty much wrote the whole song around the lyric ‘I will drive you out your mind and then I’ll drive you home’. It always felt like a duet to me so we got Lizzie Reid on board who is obviously amazing and she just took it to a whole new place.”

Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Miranda Lambert, and More Contribute to New Billy Joe Shaver Tribute Album

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Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Miranda Lambert, and More Contribute to New Billy Joe Shaver Tribute Album

Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Miranda Lambert, Amanda Shires, and morehave contributed to an upcoming compilation that pays tribute to the work of outlaw country musician Billy Joe Shaver. Executive produced by Charlie Sexton and Freddy Fletcher, Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver is set for release on November 11 and also includes contributions from Margo Price, George Strait, Allison Russell, Nathaniel Rateliff, Rodney Crowell, Ryan Bingham and Nikki Lane, Edie Brickell, and Steve Earle. Listen to one of two songs Nelson contributed to the album, a version of ‘Live Forever’ featuring vocals from Lucinda Williams, below.

“He was just real; there wasn’t one phony drop of blood in him,” Nelson said. In the album’s liner notes, Fletcher wrote: “His influence on the greatest of artists is what inspired this project. The album is a testament to his words and their deep impact on wonderful songwriters and performers. He’s a hero to so many, and we are honored to pay homage to his legacy.”

Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver Cover Artwork:

Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver Tracklist:

1. Willie Nelson (w/ Lucinda Williams) – Live Forever
2. Ryan Bingham (w/ Nikki Lane) – Ride Me Down Easy
3. Rodney Crowell – Old Five And Dimers Like Me
4. Miranda Lambert – I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)
5. Edie Brickell – I Couldn’t Be Me Without You
6. Nathaniel Rateliff – You Asked Me To
7. George Strait – Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
8. Amanda Shires – Honky Tonk Heroes
9. Steve Earle – Ain’t No God In Mexico
10. Margo Price – Ragged Old Truck
11. Willie Nelson – Georgia On A Fast Train
12. Allison Russell – Tramp On Your Street

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