Today in my Irvine office I met with a pleasant 61 year old women who had estrogen receptor positive breast cancer and was currently undergoing treatment with the drug Femara (letrozole). Unfortunately it is causing severe nausea and decreasing her appetite.

As medical director for Medical Cannabis of Southern California I often get asked by patients if they need to go and apply for the state medical marijuana ID card. The short answer is no. The only documentation that patients need is the physicians recommendation.

As medical director for Medical Cannabis of Southern California I have many patients who are combat veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Unfortunately the military has a ZERO tolerance towards any drug use and does not recognize cannabis as a medicine. The majority of these patients have made the decision to use medicine for one of two things:

Many patients often ask me how cannabis will affect their blood pressure. Hypertension is one of the indications to recommend cannabis and I have many patients that use it for that purpose.

Fortunately, in 1996, California voters passed an incredible proposition ( 215) allowing doctors to recommend cannabis to their patients and for patients in California to use cannabis medicinally. Unfortunately they passed what may be the most ridiculous and difficult to understand guidelines for collectives/dispensaries to provide patients their medicine.

As medical director of Medical Cannabis of Southern California (www.mcsocal.com) I am often asked about the therapeutic value of edibles. Many patients assume that you have to smoke cannabis and want to see if there is an alternative. So the obvious question is “do edibles affect you the same way?”

As medical director for medical cannabis of southern california I often get asked by patients “which type should I try for my condition, indica or sativa?” It is a very obvious question as most patients have no idea what strain to use or even that there is more than one strain to begin with.

Today in my Irvine clinic I evaluated a 44 year old man who suffered from chronic pancreatitis. He had recently discovered that cannabis helps relieve his abdominal pain, increase his appetite and reduce any associated nausea.

Today I had the pleasure of taking care of a 29 year old women who developed myasthenia gravis during her third pregnancy. The reason she came in was because she suffers from sever pain and cramping in her muscles. She had recently tried cannabis and had great success and was looking to use it more regularly.