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What is the Difference Between Eating and Smoking Marijuana?

What is the Difference Between Eating and Smoking Marijuana?

There are many different methods of using medical marijuana.  While the cannabis world would like to frame the choice of methods as a personal preference, the differences in the ways they work usually lead to one method or another being better suited to your...
What Is the Cannabis Entourage Effect and What Does It Mean to Me?

What Is the Cannabis Entourage Effect and What Does It Mean to Me?

Cannabis is becoming widely recognized as a safe and viable treatment for a range of illnesses, including chronic pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia, and others.  Generally, research over the past 70 years has focused on the benefits of THC.  More recently CBD...
Effects and Risks of Using Medical Marijuana for Anxiety

Effects and Risks of Using Medical Marijuana for Anxiety

Anxiety is one of the most common reasons that people seek treatment using medical marijuana. However it is also the most common problem that can be made worse by cannabis. The critical dividing line between getting benefit for anxiety from medical cannabis and...
Why Gummies Aren’t the Answer for Everything

Why Gummies Aren’t the Answer for Everything

There is a certain irony for me in this topic.  I have a history of choosing poor names for my companies, and while in the early 2010s I thought that inhaleMD was a good way of avoiding pigeon-holing myself as a cannabis doctor (I actually thought it would sound...
Conventional Drugs’ Effects on Cannabinoid Medications

Conventional Drugs’ Effects on Cannabinoid Medications

I recently had a clinical experience that shed light on another area of cannabinoid medications that is under-investigated and underreported.  This is the drug-drug interactions that affect the function of cannabinoids.   There has been a lot of...