A viewer asks: “I ordered Cannabitol for myself and also for my dog. He is a large lab that is close to 15 years old and has respiratory, joint, and GI problems as well as lesions on his trunk. I started him on a low dose but after a few days he seemed to have an allergic skin reaction. He was biting and constantly licking his feet and legs. It seems to have reduced in severity after a time since the drug was stopped. Am I correct in thinking this is an allergic reaction?”

This is not an allergic reaction but a karmic issue being stirred up. It is not medication-related, mechanistically speaking. For safety's sake, you can see how things go before reintroducing it. Sometimes the body will make an association with a new stimulus of some kind, something ingested for example, and then will exhibit a karmic potential reawakening inner negativity and that could play out with any number of bodily symptoms, skin irritation such as your dog is exhibiting with the licking and scratching behavior, or gastrointestinal upset as evidenced by vomiting, diarrhea, and so on. This is akin to a hypersensitivity but not strictly speaking an allergy because it is not involving the immune system but an effect of consciousness directly on the physiology of the body. Either way, there can be issues in re-exposing the animal again and again to anything that has an adverse impact. So we would recommend a drug-free interval and then reinstituting the supplement to see what happens, if anything. If the symptoms recur that will mean it is inadvisable to administer this supplement to your animal. The underlying karmic linkages could be healed over time, but that will be a long interval most likely, and there will be no good way of knowing when the coast is clear.