I realize this is an older post but I have had such a good experience with hops I wanted to share. I buy them from a local natural food/herb store. They are 2.00 an ounce and they work wonderfully for anxiety and sleep disorders. They work very well as a tea (pour boiling water over a Tablespoon and steep for 10 minutes) but I couldn't stand the taste. So now I vaporize them at about 1/2 the power of what I vaporize cannabis. Helped me get off xanax.
northwestnative Reviewed by northwestnative on . Smoking hops Okay, my newest bit of useful/useless info: I was reading up on medicinal herbs, particulary those with sedative or anti-anxiety effects, and came across a reference to people actually SMOKING hops. This isn't TOO surprising since hops is the closest family member to cannabis, they are both classified as the Cannabacae, and as you can see from the attached thumbnails they're virtually identical in how they show their sex parts. Lupulin, produced by the female flowers of hops, is a Rating: 5