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Long story short, it wasn’t until the recent proliferation of marijuana products in California that I started being able to really manage my insomnia. For the last two years or so, I’ve generally consumed some sort of low dosage of THC/CBD to help me sleep every night. But here’s the thing about THC: it gets you high, you know? And because of my embattled history with sleep, I started to realize I was consuming more marijuana than was ideal; my obsession with snoozing came at the cost of my productivity and whatever health problems arise from eating an obscene amount of Swedish Swimmers from Trader Joe’s. #### Then I heard about CBD and decided to give it a shot When a friend recommended I try [Feals](/content/site-root.html), a new CBD brand. It’s _just_ CBD without the THC. I was skeptical; isn’t that the cannabinoid equivalent of switching to mild sauce from Taco Bell, when all your life you’ve been telling the drive-thru cashier to obliterate you with the strongest shit they have? As it turns out, those people that are always trying to push moderation on you are occasionally correct. I tried the Feals Flight to start, which contains samples of their ingestible CBD oil in three different concentrations: 600 MG, 1200 MG, 2400 MG. I worked my way through the 600 MG and 1200 MG samples and noticed a pleasant, relaxed sensation in my muscles, but no notable sleepiness. #### The verdict? I found my perfect dose, and am finally sleeping better. When I was ready to try the 2400 MG, I took it about an hour before I usually go to sleep. Again, my limbs were feeling super duper relaxed, and it’s possible any lingering anxieties from the day were dissolving, but because I am a Type A-minus INFJ Virgo, I refuse to acknowledge that I have anxiety anyways, so it’s hard to say. **But here’s the important part: I. Slept. So. Well.** I couldn’t start in on my full-size bottle soon enough, and now I’m slipping gently into a snooze every night. Perhaps the best part of all is that I’m not waking up frustrated from a lack of sleep _or_ with stoney-baloney head from THC. And having almost reached the end of my first bottle it at this point, I have this to say: CBD, you are a sweet and sly godsend. ##### Deena Drewis Deena is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. 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