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Note to readers: This is part of our CBD For All series, where we share moving and inspiring stories of how real customers use our products. We sat down with a handful of customers who shared how Lazarus Naturals helps them feel healthier and more present in their daily lives. These are real stories from actual customers (not actors), but they did receive store credit in exchange for sharing their honest stories and experiences with CBD.  For Matt and Katie, managing health is a collective effort. They try their best to take advantage of the good days, spending them scuba...

Living on the western slopes of Mt. Rainier in Puyallup, Washington has meant many long, dark, and rainy winters for Jessica Shook. Those months of low clouds and rare sunshine used to be especially challenging for her. Over a decade ago, Shook found herself at her doctor’s office, hoping to get answers for the heart-pounding anxiety and frequent tears she couldn’t explain. She was prescribed standard pharmaceutical anxiety treatment, but after trying a couple of different brands she didn’t feel all that much better. “Pharmaceuticals I think give me more anxiety… their side effects were awful, I just didn’t want...

Formulation and packaging culminates months of work from when we first put our hemp seeds into soil. At this point, our hemp has been grown, harvested, extracted, and distilled. Our team in Seattle has created barrels of potent full spectrum hemp oil, CBD distillate, and CBD (or CBG isolate). These cannabinoid-rich concentrations made by our extraction team are shipped south to Portland for the exciting final stage of our internal process - making and packaging our products. Building the right recipe The trick to making great tasting, effective products starts in our test kitchen. Whether it’s finding the balance of...

After weeks of harvesting, our drying barn is filled with thousands of boxes of cured hemp flower. It will take months to process this dense, potent biomass. Batch by batch, we truck the hemp over to our state-of-the-art extraction lab, just a few hundred feet away. The process of extracting the cannabinoids necessary to ultimately craft our entire suite of CBD products requires a bit of a science lesson. Much like the extraction process itself, we’re here to break it down for you.  How extraction works The first step is to transfer the hemp flower into large mesh bags —...