How CBD Helps Athletes with Rachael Rapinoe

11/29/21 • 31 min

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Growing up, athlete Rachael Rapinoe thrived off the "built-in rivalry" at home with her twin sister Megan. The Rapinoe twins played collegiate-level soccer for the Portland Pilots, where Rachael sustained a career-changing knee injury. After years of surgeries and overuse of prescription painkillers, Rachael learned just how many elite athletes were tapping into the vast health benefits of CBD, and she tried it for herself.
With a Master's degree in Health and Exercise Science behind her and the lived experience of how cannabinoids can help athletes like herself, Rachael co-founded Mendi, a sports-focused CBD brand whose mission is to "improve athletes lives using nature’s best recovery tools." Mendi offers CBD-infused gummies, capsules, tinctures, salves, and oils, all designed to help keep athletes like the Rapinoe twins at the top of their game. In this episode, Brit and Rachael discuss her experience with opioids and pot, how cannabinoids help athletes recover, whether weed should be considered a performance-enhancing drug, the current state of CBD, and THC rules in major sports, and more.
Learn more about Mendi at themendico.com.
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Baking Brownies with Brit

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Grab your apron and an eighth, it's time to learn how to bake THC-infused brownies so good they belong at your next dinner party. Cannabis-infused dinners may be gaining in popularity, but they are by no means easy to pull off. Aside from making sure every course tastes great, infused dinners call for preparing your cannabis through a process called decarboxylation, and figuring out how to dose each course, which can take a lot of time and math.
This episode, learn the ins and outs of hosting a pot-infused dinner with canna-cuisine creators Colin Hanner and Laura Scherb, who guide host Brit Smith through baking their amazing "Not Your Roommates Weed Brownies" recipe.
Find this recipe and more in Colin and Laura's article; "An Informal Guide to Hosting Your Own Cannabis Dinner," in the 3rd edibles issue of Different Leaf the magazine, out now at DifferentLeaf.com or at Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Follow Different Leaf on social media at @differentleaf and @different_leaf and find host Brit Smith @BritTheBritish - Produced by Andrea Muraskin and Brit Smith, music by Homebody.

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Brit and Brooke discuss what it's like being cannabis reporters in California and Massachusetts, how to be an advocate for social justice in cannabis, and how to integrate marijuana into your yoga practice. Flip to page 83 In the fall 2021 issue of Different Leaf Magazine to learn more about Brooke's journey from child actress to social media influencer and cannabis talking head.
Follow Brooke Burgstahler on Instagram @brookestellar.
Find issues of Different Leaf the Magazine at DifferenLeaf.com or at Barnes and Noble and Books-a-Million bookstores, follow us on social media @differentleaf and @different_leaf, and follow host Brit Smith @BritTheBritish.
Produced by Andrea Muraskin and Brit Smith, music by Homebody.