A study performed by Dr. Donald Abrams at the University of San Francisco comparing the safety and efficiency of vaporized marijuana versus smoked marijuana demonstrated that vaporization significantly reduces carbon monoxide levels in the blood and is also more potent. This study was sponsored by UCSD’s Cannabis Research Center in San Diego. A link to [...]

Today in Irvine I took care of a 54 year old women who is post-menopausal and uses medical marijuana to treat her insomnia, night sweats and mood changes. Because of a strong family history of breast cancer she did not want to use hormone replacement therapy (which has been linked to increased risk of breast cancer in some women). She said that the medications that they put her on to help her relax and fall asleep were addictive and she “hated them”. Specifically they put her on xanax for anxiety and lunestra for sleep. In both cases the side effects were too much to handle. READ ON….

If you are not familiar with the various methods of medicating with medical marijuana you are probably reading this thinking that patients must SMOKE it in order to get it’s benefits. Actually a high percentage of my patients who have been using cannabis for quite some time thought they had to smoke it. There are really two ways to medicate:

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 routinely evaluate patients who suffer from severe and debilitating migraine headaches. Their complaints range from intractable pain to severe nausea and photophobia. Many patients are unaware of the incredible anti-emetic (nausea) properties of cannabis.