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Calculate Your Dose

Calculate Your Dose

Recently I’ve been asked by several patients and also by an NGO for help with cannabis THC calculations. How do you calculate your dose? It occurred to me that this might be a topic that others would like to hear about.  Say No To Smoking Let’s start...
Why Does Tolerance Matter?

Why Does Tolerance Matter?

Tolerance is a good thing, right?  It’s good to be tolerant of others’ rights and beliefs.  It’s good to be tolerant of people who are different from you and may want things other than what you want.  Yet, tolerance in medicine is not...
National Institute on Drug Abuse Turns 50

National Institute on Drug Abuse Turns 50

“And even if medical science has changed its views on addiction, policies and social structures have been slower in following the science toward a public health-based approach.” Dr. Nora D. Volkow, president of the National Institute on Drug Abuse,...
How to Get Your Marijuana Prescription

How to Get Your Marijuana Prescription

Apparently many people are googling for “how to get your marijuana prescription” so I’ll address this here.  However, I think it’s sort of the wrong question.  At a time when most Americans have access to cannabis by one means or...
5 Best Strains of Marijuana for Anxiety

5 Best Strains of Marijuana for Anxiety

The internet is full of articles with titles like this!  Listicles, they say, get eyeballs.  Wouldn’t it be nice if all you needed was to find the right strain or strains that would magically cure you, or at least keep your anxiety at bay? ...
What’s Wrong with Most Cannabis Advice

What’s Wrong with Most Cannabis Advice

Let’s face it, we all know someone, or many someones, who use cannabis.  Maybe it’s a friend, or cousin, or your kid.  Maybe it’s your sister, the nurse – surely she knows.  Whoever it is, the likelihood is that they are free...