When we were young my brother was against cannabis adamantly. He would admonish our friends if he discovered that they imbibed in the plant, although he never saw any problems with drinking alcohol. In fact, he started abusing alcohol the minute he got to college a year after I graduated high school myself. While I was showing up to class everyday while mildly stoned, he was sleeping through lectures from being too hung-over to wake up on time everyday. Perhaps my brother didn’t have the right college environment to cultivate his success, but his decision to party and abuse liquor had as much of an effect on his failures as anything else. Nowadays he has a completely changed mind about cannabis. He is dating a woman who uses it occasionally and he asked me to give him some advice on his first time with the plant. Aside from telling him to take it easy with his initial drags off the joint, I couldn’t think of any other warnings to give him. That’s when I remembered something important that I learned in the past few years buying CBD products at various medical cannabis dispensaries. If for some reason you consume too much THC inadvertently and start to feel like you’re losing control or “tripping-out,” taking CBD will counteract and nullify some of the psychoactive effects from the THC. I told this to my brother and offered him a CBD vaporizer cartridge to take with him in case he ran into issues with the high THC cannabis. He declined the CBD and almost ended up in ER from a panic attack because he got so high the first time trying cannabis with his girlfriend. He should have taken the CBD cartridge when I offered it to him.