In the wake of the recent raids on legitimate medical marijuana dispensaries in Costa Mesa, CA this past week, the Feds have sent letters to all land lords who rent to dispensaries notifying them that unless they evict their property will be seized.   This has pretty much sealed the fate for the majority of [...]

Yesterday I followed up with a patient who has been treating his OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) with medical marijuana for the past 12 months.   He claims that it reduces his obsessions by “85%” and that he does not know what he would do without it. His main issue is “counting” and “checking” (i.e did [...]

My name is Marie and I am a medical marijuana patient.  I am 63 years old and have suffer from severe arthritis in both my hips.  I am mother of 4, grandmother of 10 and live in a small retirement community in southern California. I use medical marijuana twice per day.  Once when I wake [...]

The goal of this post is to explain how medical marijuana can improve the quality of life for both cancer patients and survivors.  Over the past 4 years I have evaluated thousands of patients who want to try medical marijuana to help relieve their symptoms.  30% of my patients are diagnosed with cancer and in [...]

One of the amazing things about being a doctor is you get to minister to your patients.   Because I routinely recommend medical marijuana to patients I often come across patients at the end of their life, mostly battling cancer.  Yesterday was one of those days where God allowed me to pray with 4 patients [...]

California attorney general Kamela Harris has leaked her guidelines for the states medical marijuana laws.    There are few changes which will change how the business is currently being run by dispensaries and cultivators. In this blog I will summarize the most pertinent changes: 1) Patients will be allowed to join ONLY ONE collective (dispensary): [...]

Today in Long Beach I took care of a 21 year old man (really a kid!) who was diagnosed with Behcet’s Disease (pronounced Bah-shets). 24 months ago he was full of health and had a promising modeling career. Today he writhes in pain, has debilitating oral and genital ulcers and has terrible skin ulcers which [...]

Today in Long Beach I introduced myself to a patient by the name of Ron and asked him how he was doing as I normally do with every patient I meet.   His response: “I’M DYING DOC”   Unfortunately Ron had hepatocellular carcinoma (cancer of the liver) that has metastasized to just about everywhere in [...]

Human Growth Hormone, commonly referred to as HGH, is important in the maintenance and growth of skeletal muscle, bone, cartilage, liver, kidneys, skin, heart and nerves (almost every cell in the body).   It also has many other physiologic effects including regulating blood sugar levels.   It has been commonly used as a performance enhancing [...]

This past weekend Anaheim Convention Center hosted the Kush Expo under the cloak of medical marijuana.   It featured a hot kush girl contest, a smoking room to use marijuana and had hundreds of vendors selling and marketing products “all marijuana”.  Legally they can do this because of Proposition 215 which allows patients to use [...]