Cannabis Therapeutics

May 16, 2019

Cannabis Therapeutics

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Fundamentals for medical professionals:
science, dosing, contraindications

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1. What Every Canadian Healthcare Provider Should Know 3 Topics

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1.2 The New Legislation Process: Process and Pitfalls

1.3 Barriers To Patient Success

2. Cannabis as Medicine: A Potted History 7 Topics | 1 Quiz

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2.2 Early History of Cannabis Use

2.3 Cannabis in the West

2.4 U.S. Prohibition

2.5 Medical implications of U.S. Prohibition

2.6 Canadian Prohibition: “A Solution Without a Problem”

2.7 Hemp Vs. Cannabis

3. A Tour of the Endocannabinoid System, The Body’s Supercomputer 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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3.1 Intro to the Endocannabinoid System

3.2 Discovering the Endocannabinoid System

3.3 The Endocannabinoid System

4. 5 Key Functions of the ECS: Eat, Sleep, Relax , Forget, and Protect 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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4.2 The Endocannabinoid System (ECS)

4.3 How Cannabinoids Attach to Receptors

5. Beyond THC & CBD: Minor Cannabinoids, Terpenes and The Entourage Effect 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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5.2 Minor Cannabinoids & Terpenes

5.3 Tolerance and ECS Downregulation

5.4 Botanical vs. Single Molecule Compounds

6. Methods of Administration: Inhalation, Tinctures, Pills & Edibles, Topicals, Suppositories 8 Topics | 1 Quiz

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6.2 Flowers and Concentrates

6.3 Extraction Methods

6.6 Oral Mucosal: Tinctures, Sprays, Sublingual Drops

6.7 Topicals & Transdermals

6.8 Suppositories

7. Risks & Counterindications 9 Topics | 1 Quiz

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7.2 Overall Risks

7.3 Drug-Drug Interactions

7.4 Pregnant and Nursing Mothers

7.5 Youth Under 25

7.6 Cardiac Conditions

7.7 Psychiatric Problems

7.8 Immunocompromised Patients

7.9 The Elderly

8. Dosing Strategies 6 Topics | 1 Quiz

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8.1 Dosing Strategies

8.2 Basic Dosing Guidelines

8.3 THC Titration Tactics

8.4 Clinical Pearls

8.5 Recommended Ratios for Specific Illnesses

8.6 Methods of Delivery

9. Laboratory Testing 3 Topics | 1 Quiz

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9.2 How Laboratory Testing Works

9.3 Interpreting a Lab Test

10. Insomnia Case Study 4 Topics | 1 Quiz

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10.1 Insomnia is Rampant

10.2 Meet Lauren

10.3 Cannabinoid Therapy for Sleep: Pharmacological Mechanism

10.4 Lauren's Outcome

11. Can Cannabis Disrupt the Opioid and Benzodiazepine Crises? 7 Topics | 1 Quiz

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11.2 Over 2 Million Hooked

11.3 Double Dosing

11.4 A Quiet Crisis Among the Elderly

11.5 The Other Difficulty with Addiction

11.6 Using Cannabinoids to Taper Patients Off Opioids and Benzos

11.7 Medical Cannabis Laws Reduce Opiate Related Fatalities

12. Look, Watch, Read, Listen 4 Topics

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12.1 Multimedia & Other Resources

12.2 Further Reading

12.3 Peer Support and Research Organizations

12.4 Advocacy Organizations

13. Glossary of Terms 1 Topic

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13.1 Glossary of Terms