Welcome to season three of the Cannaba Verum podcast, the cannabis truth podcast. I speak the language of cannabis freely and uncensored while educating my audience on safe use of this live plant therapy. You should know what’s in your cannabis. What’s good and what’s not. It does not come with an FDA stamp of approval yet. Using cannabis mindfully as medication is a different concept in Western healthcare philosophy, specifically the past 100 years. There’s a lot to learn and reconsider. The information you’ll find here comes straight from the scientists and clinicians doing the work and reporting their findings in real time through various live online outlets. The scientific truth of cannabis is finally getting out and is wide open for all to see at respected medical sites like www.pubmed.gov and JAMA, the Journal of American Medical Association (jamanetwork.com). And I’m right there in the thick of it with all those titans of medicine as a fly on the wall. Because I’m not a doctor. I didn’t go to med school. I did take dozens of private cannabis courses offered by cannabis expert scientists online over the past few years and slowly began to understand the bigger picture. Well, I can talk to those medical professionals about cannabis all day long and their patients and hopefully inspire them to research the facts as we know them today. Cannabis is an amazing alternative in health remedies that can reportedly alleviate typical disease problems and troubling side effects caused by synthetic prescriptions. This is Honey Smith Walls, a 21st century cannabis shaman… not a doctor… not a scientist. Raised by nuns and wolves in the verdant cattle pastures of the Oklahoma oil fields. I’m here to amplify the truth of this great big story and language of cannabis in historical, political and scientific terms… so you can make educated decisions about the medicine you choose to ingest.
Honey Smith Walls 0:01
I’m so excited to tell you about our friend Josephine Canella-Krehl. What an amazing woman and I can’t wait for you to meet her. But let me tell you just a little bit about her. And this comes straight off of her LinkedIn profile. She’s a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook with a Bachelor degree in Psychology in 1988, and of the Florida State University with a Master of Social Work degree in 1990. Josephine began her career as an outpatient mental health therapist working with individuals negatively impacted by substance use disorders. She’s worked with a variety of populations, but most notably in the field of hospice with terminally ill patients, and their families, of course, and as a bereavement therapist with young children, adolescents and adults. Josephine was instrumental in the passage of Florida’s medical use of cannabis act in 2014. She has testified at the Florida Department of Health Rule Development workshops in both Senate and House committee meetings and has attended meetings with legislators and staff educating on cannabis therapeutics. In 2017, she served as the Director of Community Outreach for one of Florida’s largest medical cannabis physician groups, and in 2018 she was appointed to the UFIFAS industrial Hemp Pilot Program Advisory Board, where she will play an integral role in establishing Florida’s industrial hemp industry. In 2020, Josephine was appointed to FDACS Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, where she will make recommendations for best practices in Florida’s medical cannabis program. Josephine is founder and CEO of MMJ Knowledge (www.mmjknowledge.com), a medical cannabis education company whose mission it is to inspire hope through excellence in education by facilitating continuing education seminars for healthcare professionals on the benefits of cannabis therapeutics. Josephine is also a private practice therapist, providing both in- person and tele-health services. And now, Ms. Josephine CannellaKrehl.
Seg 1
Honey Smith Walls 0:12
Oh, good morning. It sounds like I’ve got Josephine.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 0:15
Good morning. How are you?
Honey Smith Walls 0:18
I’m just wonderful. I am so tickled that you are on the show Josephine, really I am.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 0:24
Thank you.
Honey Smith Walls 0:24
If I may tell you, you were the first woman in cannabis that I ever saw in person. Or anywhere speaking about cannabis openly. And I went to a lecture that you were having down,I don’t know, a couple hours south of where I’m in Melbourne, and I sat through it and it was for a lot of nurses. And I’m not a medical professional, but I felt so tickled just to be in the room.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 1:00
I remember you being there and yeah, I was tickled to see your face in the audience and it gave me some encouragement. So thank you for being there. It was nice to see a familiar face.
Honey Smith Walls 1:14
Oh, that’s just precious to me. I wanted to emulate you. From the moment I saw what you were doing. And no truly and the next thing I did was went to another Trulieve thing with a panel and Irv Rosenfeld was there and I met him, because I had already seen you, it gave me the courage to walk up to him and say, I am going to do this.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 1:40
Awesome. And here you are.
Honey Smith Walls 1:42
And here I am.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 1:43
Right on.
Honey Smith Walls 1:44
Yep.
Your style of teaching spoke to me and I just had to jump in. It was just like you’re on fire and I feel it even just 40 miles away talking about you and I follow you and I can’t wait for the audience to know you.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 2:03
Thank you for the invite. I really appreciate being here.
Honey Smith Walls 2:07
Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and what your mission is.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 2:12
So I am a licensed clinical social worker. Started off as a mental health therapist in the late 80s, early 90s. And I was doing a lot of substance abuse outpatient counseling at the time. I was getting a good number of course, you know, back in the 80s and 90s cocaine and crack was at the height. And I was getting a lot of referrals from the courts. And I was also getting cannabis referrals through the courts. And that’s when I really started to recognize the difference you know, was like the folks with the crack and the cocaine charges, their whole lives were falling apart basically. You know, they had family issues, they had work issues now they had law enforcement issues. And what I noticed about my cannabis clients was that their biggest problem was that they got arrested for possession of cannabis.
Honey Smith Walls 3:30
Otherwise their families their home, their work life was all balanced.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 3:35
Basically. Yeah. And it was a court ordered treatment program. So they had to do 12 weeks of outpatient counseling with me and, you know, stay clean. But that was when it really kind of struck me the difference in the clientele that I was seeing and the issues that we were addressing.
You know, fast forward I moved into the field of hospice and palliative care and started my career as medical social worker. I kept a private practice all along, you know, to keep up with my mental health clients as well. PTSD, anxiety related disorders, depression. And then I started working with families and in families of people who were dying and individuals who were dying.
Honey Smith Walls 4:39
I’m called there too, as well. Just so you know, I’ve been called there for a long time. I haven’t been able to work it yet. But I intend to eventually when I have, you know, when it’s the right time, it will happen for me.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 4:53
Sure. So, um, in the meantime, my dad was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. It was a recurring diagnosis. You know, we had already dealt with the first round, he’d already had chemotherapy and radiation and he had the upper right lobe of his lung removed. And then we got the terminal prognosis that you know, it had advanced to stage four lung cancer. I was his caregiver and managed all of his health care appointments, obviously, since that was kind of my gig to begin with. And so I was just dumbfounded when I went to that appointment with my dad’s radiation oncologist, and he gave us a prognosis of one to three months to live. That was up in New York. I had traveled. I live down in Florida so I traveled up to New York to attend the meeting with him. And I was dumbfounded because working in hospice and palliative care I just figured her recommendation would be for palliative care, or for a hospice referral, since she told us that he only had one to three months. Her recommendation was another round of chemotherapy. Ah, so I kind of took things into my own hands at that time. And I coordinated to move my dad down to Florida and I moved my mom and my dad and my brother…
Honey Smith Walls 6:46
Well that was a huge chore, wasn’t it?
Josephine Canella-Krehl 6:50
It was. I got them into our home. And I got my dad signed up with the hospice program that I had been working at. And I started doing my own research into alternative you know, alternative therapies for symptom control. And cannabis just kept getting the hit on my radar. And unfortunately, you know, my dad was 84 at the time and was not willing to break the law, even though you know, his baby girl was. And being a social worker and really prioritizing informed decision making for patients, I kind of was in a little ethical dilemma, you know, like, do I sneak the cannabis into his food, right? Or do I respect his decision? If I knew now, what I knew then I would have made a different decision. I decided that I would just kind of honor his decision and take him through the dying process with a fist full of pharmaceuticals, you know, including, you know, fast acting morphine, short acting morphine, morphine, fentanyl patches. I just had an arsenal of medications that I took charge of because I was really kind of my parents caregiver. They grew up in Sicily. So you know, they they didn’t understand the language as well as I do. And quite frankly, I was a little nervous to put my mom in charge of the medication because I was afraid that she would overdose him and he would die sooner than he needed to. So after he died, I kept studying about cannabis. I lived in Tallahassee at the time. So I had tried to open the cannabis conversation with the hospice medical director at the time and she didn’t want to have that conversation. And you know, I she said, “Well, we don’t have patients that use marijuana.” and I was like “No. No, really we do. I’m talking to them because what I had done was when you get a hospice patient in admitting, the clinical social worker has to do a bio psychosocial assessment within five days of admission… that’s just kind of like Medicare guidelines. Okay. So I decided that I was going to add a little section to the bio-psychosocial assessment and that basically talks about you know, medical issues, family issues, spiritual issues, because there’s all kinds of things that people need to address before they die.
Honey Smith Walls 10:20
You are a shaman.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 10:21
So I added “alternative methods for symptom control” section just kind of on my own.
Honey Smith Walls 10:30
And started gathering data.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 10:32
Yeah, because I kept thinking, well, if cannabis really helps with all of these things that I’m reading about, then surely I have patients that are using cannabis but they’re just not telling us. So I opened the conversation, I created a safe space and I said, you know, do you do anything else to help manage your symptoms, you know, I mean, I’ve heard some people use acupuncture or acupressure or guided imagery or meditation,
Honey Smith Walls 11:10
Sound. Right.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 11:13
And heck, I’ve even heard some people tell me that they use marijuana and it helps them.
Honey Smith Walls 11:20
And that just opened them up, didn’t it?
Josephine Canella-Krehl 11:22
It just opened the door and all of a sudden I had a flood of people telling me yeah, I use I use cannabis and I prefer the word cannabis now over marijuana that kind of learned the clinical aspects of cannabis therapeutics. And so I went to my medical director, and I said, Hey, and I had I had already, so I know I’m jumping. I live in Tallahassee, so I went up to the Capitol. My husband is actually the one that kind of got me involved in the advocacy work. He went up before me. And and he’s not medically trained. You know, he was kind of talking about cannabis and hemp. His background is in buildings. So hempcrete was really fascinating to him. And he came back and he’s like, you know, I’m not sure there’s a whole lot that I can do up there, but I think that you can do some excellent work. So he brought me up there. Went into the Capitol. That’s where I met you know, Jody James of Florida Cannabis Action Network. Because I didn’t know anything about changing laws. You know, and when I had that conversation, with my medical director, who told me that we didn’t have people who use marijuana, and I said, well, of course we do. They’re telling me and she said, “No, you don’t understand. Marijuana is against the law. We don’t have patients that use marijuana.”
Honey Smith Walls 11:33
Oh my goodness.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 13:10
So then I decided all right, well, you know, I’m a 30-plus year advocate for marginalized and vulnerable people. I happen to live in Tallahassee, medical social work is my background. We’re talking about clinical cannabis. You know, I call it medicine. And so that was kind of the beginning of my journey. I thought it was just going to be so simple, that I would walk into the Capitol and explain to our lawmakers I thought I made this great discovery like hey, it’s life saving and life giving in it. It can really help people not use pharmaceuticals that have all these other side effects. And I thought I was just gonna have to go in and and I’d already been to one patient’s out of time clinical cannabis therapeutics conference in California with world leaders in cannabis therapeutics, you know, Dr. Ethan Russo…
Honey Smith Walls 14:40 Oh, I love him. All of them. Yes, I know.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 14:45 Donald Abrams, an oncology specialist. And so I thought it was going to be as simple as just going up and saying, hey, you know, I was gonna spread the good news, right? That’s what we’re called to do. And, and then I learned how politics work.
Honey Smith Walls 14:53
With their hands over their ears and eyes.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 14:55
That was in 2014. And, and I’ve, you know, returned up to the Florida Capitol every year since we’ve made some great progress. We have a medical cannabis program in Florida with over 650,000 registered patients. So we’ve definitely made progress but we have a really long way to go.
Honey Smith Walls 15:24
Indeed.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 15:24
And and I’m actually really excited. This is a big week for Florida. This is a historical week for Florida. I don’t know that a lot of people realize. But Florida Cannabis Action Network does a Lobby Days every year where we coordinate meetings with lawmakers, we have constituents register we use their zip codes to reach out to their lawmakers to make meetings with their lawmakers. And then we have ambassadors, who take people around to the meetings and it was this past Monday and Tuesday Cannabis at the Capitol. And for the first time in Florida history, we made arrangements with the Capitol complex and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to have living and growing cannabis plants on display on the second floor of the Capitol Rotunda.
Honey Smith Walls 16:35
Oh my goodness.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 16:36
Yeah. For the first time in Florida history there was, I can attest to there being illegal cannabis on the grounds I have witnessed that.
But 2022 January 24 of 2022 was the first time that you know folks brought living growing plants through security, past the Capitol Police up to the second floor of the rotunda and that was part of our Touch It, Taste it, Smell It campaign.
Honey Smith Walls 17:18
That’s wonderful.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 17:19
Yeah, it was it was pretty historical. So I figured I would throw that into the mix just to let your listeners know that Florida made history.
Honey Smith Walls 17:31
Well thank you for that and congratulations on your work.
Hey my friends,
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Seg 2
Honey Smith Walls 0:01
It’s so important that we help others and inspire others to do this kind of legislative work as well. And, you know, with your pedigree and your experience and your data collection and all of that, that you could take and give to the legislators who need to hear and understand what’s happening in the medicinal world of cannabis. And it doesn’t stop there, you know?
Well, but your history is so wonderful to hear.
And you know, there wouldn’t be a white guy in the Americas without cannabis, because you can’t sail a ship without canvas or rope. So, you know, I’m just so grateful that we’ve got it here. Can’t wait to find out from the indigenous what the real story of cannabis in the Americas is.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 1:00
Yeah, and it’s really fascinating because after my dad died, my mom called me one morning really early. She had had a dream and she was very emotional. I grabbed my notepad and I started taking notes really fast and she was having like a stream of consciousness. She went to sleep that night and she remembered growing up in Sicily. And you know, first she started off she was kind of hysterical and crying and I wish we would have listened to you. I wish we would have given your dad the cannabis and then she started recalling, reciting to me that she recalled in a dream that she used to help her grandmother actually make a cannabis infused olive oil.
Honey Smith Walls 1:56
Listen to that.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 2:04
Yeah. Because she was a little girl in Sicily. And you know, she had the recipe right on I mean, she talked about how they would take the cannabis and I think I don’t know if it was hemp. If it was low THC or high THC. But you know, she said depended on what you wanted to treat, you know, and she’s talking in Sicilian to me so my brain is translating and taking notes as she’s having the stream of consciousness.
You know, if you wanted to use it for the kids that were possessed by the devil, go and you would go to the people in the mountains and get the plants from them. I’m thinking to myself possess from the devil. Oh, she’s talking about seizure disorders. You know, cuz we’re talking, you know…
Honey Smith Walls 3:00
Sure.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 3:01
Historical times with you know, my mom is now 90. Oh, I should know but she’s like 94. So she was remembering times from when she was a little girl. So you know, 85-90 years ago? So, you know, and then she would tell me, you know, if you wanted to help you know, the old people who had lost their mind, then you would go to the families that live by the water and you would get the plants from them. And I’m like, oh, people who lost their minds, okay, Alzheimer’s and she’s going down the list and reciting all of this to me and you know, you would take the plants and we would dry them. And then we would roast them and we would crush them. And we would put them in the jars and we would cover it with olive oil.
We would store it in a dark place. And then every once a week we would go and we would shake it and we would leave it.
Honey Smith Walls 4:13
Listen to those old women shaman talk about their recipes.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 4:18
Exactly.
Honey Smith Walls 4:20
Girl that’s so precious.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 4:22
Yeah. And I thought to myself, Wow, this is kind of coming full circle for me because here I am, you know, a modern age medical provider and here’s my mom telling me about how my ancestors, the indigenous, and that’s what made me think of it because you said you know you’re interested in learning how the indigenous people in the Americas used this plant and I thought to myself Wow, I’m really coming full circle here because now I’m going back to my ancestral roots of using plants you know, because my grandmother when I was growing up, she had a little remedy for everything.
Honey Smith Walls 5:10
When the shaman calls.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 5:12
And you know, it just it made me sad. That she remembered a little too late because I find to think what could we have done you know, could my dad…he died in 2014. Could he still be here with me today? Maybe, maybe so, and I got really mad. And when I learned that the first medical journal article, research article on the benefits for cannabis and cancer care was in 1972.
And the Nixon administration kind of made that disappear, then I just got really mad.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 6:05
You know, we’ve prohibited this plant, not because it’s unsafe. But because it’s so therapeutic. And I really felt called to change unjust and draconian laws.
So that’s kind of you know, in 2018, I founded my company MMJ Knowledge, it’s a medical cannabis education company, and I kind of made it my mission in addition to changing the laws to reach out to mainstream medical conferences. And those days back in 2014, 15, 16 we didn’t have cannabis, clinical cannabis therapeutics presented at mainstream medicine. At all. So that was my other mission. I kind of scoured the relevant conferences that I could present at, you know, cannabis therapeutics at the end of life practical applications for hospice and palliative care, cannabis therapeutics in age-related conditions. Talking about advanced directives and…
Honey Smith Walls 7:34
Normalizing it. Incorporating it into a normal end of life and it’s sad but it had to be, you know, end of life discussion first.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 7:44
Yeah. And just kind of started, you know, there was some training for physicians that had started at the time. There was some education for patients, but there was no education for allied health care professionals, social workers, nurses, case managers, and I thought to myself, well, we’re leaving out a really important, you know, case managers, social workers, nurses, they’re the coordinators of care.
Honey Smith Walls 8:21
You gotta have them… can’t do it without them.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 8:24
For sure. And a lot of times, we are the ones who make the recommendations to the doctors, the doctors will write the script, the doctors will write the order, but that’s because they’ve been given the authority.
A lot of times what needs to be done comes from the health care team and is presented to the physician because the health care team is really the one that spends the most time with the patients. So I made it my mission to start submitting abstracts and proposals to mainstream medical conferences where there’s just one topic of maybe 20 in a weekend on cannabis therapeutics, and, that’s just kind of what I’ve been doing ever since Honey.
Honey Smith Walls 9:22
I just want to tell the audience this girl is on fire and she is a mover and a shaker. And I am always inspired by your work Josephine, truely.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 9:33
I saw a meme and it said, “They told me I couldn’t. That’s why I did it.”
Kind of the way I felt like oh, wait a minute, are you telling me we can’t because it’s against the law? All right, well, I guess we need to change this law then.
Honey Smith Walls 9:55
There you go.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 9:57
So.
Honey Smith Walls 9:58
Yeah, when you start getting outside of your own bubble and discovering you know, the many, many philosophies and ideas of others in the world and how, you know, just general life in society is framed by you know, different countries. It’s utterly amazing that we’ve only got this far when can see so far ahead of us and how it could so easily be if we just had what… better people or fewer miserable people. I mean, miserable in the way of you know.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 10:42
I think the real sticking point which has been my biggest, greatest lesson on this journey is how laws are made. And how politicized health care. I mean, we see it now with the pandemic. Right? How politicized health care is, and you know, that was that’s been probably the most maddening part of this whole process for me, is we’re not making laws for the benefit of the people. We’re really making laws based on special interest groups and how much money they donate to a politician’s Political Action Committee.
Honey Smith Walls 11:30
That’s right.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 11:32
And, you know…
Honey Smith Walls 11:33
So what you’re talking about is us having to deal with the corruption behind everything.
Josephine Canella-Krehl 11:38
Behind all of it. Yeah, and I mean to me it was the biggest eye opener of all. I was naive. I learned how to pass a law from Schoolhouse Rock and I’m Just a Bill and, you know, I figured that’s the way it worked, and it does, except for there’s this whole other underbelly that is just really unsavory. And so, at first, I spent a lot of times fighting against it. And then I realized if I really want to make an impact, and if I really want to work towards lasting change, I need to learn the rules of engagement and kind of beat them at their own game.
Honey Smith Walls 12:34
So do we do that with education?
Josephine Canella-Krehl 12:39
We do that by learning how the political process works and assimilating into the process, instead of having activists that go up to the capitol and yell at lawmakers. So I have, you know, I have a little bit of a different view of advocacy in the cannabis world. And I see that there’s a difference between activists and advocates.
Honey Smith Walls
Hey, I want you to know that we stopped right here for a minute just so that you’ll have an opportunity to mull over all the glorious things we talked about. Josephine is amazing, and she’ll be back next week to finish this conversation. We can’t wait to have you come back and join us.
Honey Smith Walls
I don’t know about you, but I just can’t get enough of Kay Tummino, shaman of JourneyDrum fame on Instagram. She and I decided to do a Clubhouse room together.
It’s called Rising Cannabis Connections and it airs every Monday morning at eight o’clock am, Eastern on that new app called Clubhouse.
So if you don’t have the Clubhouse app, be sure and get it then join our Clubhouse room.
Remember it’s live… so you can raise your hand and ask your burning questions. It’s kind of like live radio. But nobody has to get all gussied up for that.
So come on and join our audience or jump up there on stage with us and share your own cannabis history. We’re having a ball learning about this amazing plant.
Join Kay Tommino and me, Honey Smith Walls on the brand new Clubhouse room called Rising Cannabis Connections. Mondays eight o’clock a.m. Eastern. See you there.
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Show Notes:
This legislative cannabis warrior is fighting for your right to cannabis. Don’t mistake her soft spoken style and emotional stories for the advocate warrior she is. Josephine’s love is apparent and appropriate for this sweet day of demonstration. Join us for some amazing factoids and the real deal in cannabis love. www.MMJknowledge.com Florida Medical Cannabis Conference Exhibition: https://fmcce.com/
Sources:
Cannaba Verum is Latin for Cannabis Truth. Sourcing factual information about cannabis hasn’t always been easy for a variety of reasons. However now because of modern innovations, it is. My sources are from leaders in cannabis science like:
Roger Adams, U.S. Organic Chemist who isolated the structure of CBD,
Raphael Mechoulam, Israeli Organic Chemist who isolated the structure of THC,
Ethan Russo, Dir R&D International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute
Dustin Sulak, DO – my favorite doctor at healer.com, teaching the art of Cannabis Healing to the world, and other industry greats like:
Rev. Dr. Kymron DeCesare, Ed Rosenthal, Jack Herer, Michael Backes, and Michael Pollen and so many more… plus I use classical sites like: PubMed.gov, JAMAnetwork.com, ResearchGate.com. I listen to several daily podcasts to keep up with the latest cannabis news across the nation and throughout the world like: The Great Shea Gunther at MJTodayDaily.com and MarijuanaMoment.net. I trust the CBDProject.org and CannabisScienceTech.com. I watch the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) at: thecannabisindustry.org and many more like: NCIA’s Cannabis Industry VOICE (CannabisRadio.com)
Over past episodes of Cannaba Verum, we’ve listened to some amazing scientists and medical professionals talk about their discoveries and patient successes as hundreds of questionable compounds rise to the public grasp. I am especially interested in the pharmacists movement becoming an integral part of this new medicinal choice.
Watch this machine roll into action through conversations with pharmacy doctors all over the nation.
You’ll find Citations available on my podcast blog at cannabaverum.com
PS: Helping society get past the fear of using cannabis will be a lifelong journey for me. This industry is just opening up and most patients and doctors are completely cannabis naive and need help understanding where to turn for trustworthy information.
If you need help opening that cannabis discussion with your family doctor, please reach out and grab the Dear Doctor Letter I wrote for this exact purpose. It will explain your decision to try cannabis and ask for their help in monitoring your labs and progress. It will also show them where they can find medical research on the subject of your diagnosis and the effects of cannabis.
You’ll find that letter at cannabaverum.com And it’s free to use as you wish.
- Microdosing – https://healer.com/cbd-cannabis-dosage-guide-project-cbd-interview-with-dr-sulak/
- Concentrates – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29307505/
- Cannabis Helps Dementia Podcast – Anchor.FM/cannabishelpsdementia
- Society of Cannabis Clinicians – https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/
- Take the Pledge – GreenTakeover.com
- Handbook for Clinicians – Principles and Practice – https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393714180
- The Cannigma Podcast = https://cannigma.com/podcast/behind-the-scenes-on-cannabis-normalization-with-jm-pedini/
- Curious About Cannabis Podcast = https://cacpodcast.com/
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All opinions are my own and should not be mistaken as medical advice.
