Can Medical Marijuana Help You?

Medical Marijuana Awareness Post-Webinar Resources

The Webinar

Thank you to everyone who attended the August 13th Medical Marijuana Awareness webinar “Can Medical Marijuana Help You?”

Watch the video on our YouTube channel! Your questions and comments during the live Q&A helped to make a great source of information for the next person seeking treatment.

Speakers featured in this webinar were host Marc Matoza and guest speaker Arnetra Shettleworth,Vice President of Operations in the Southern Region for Columbia Care.

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Patient Information Brochure

Ongoing Education

We’ve partnered with medical marijuana education experts to provide you further resources on the topic of Medical Marijuana and what it can do to help with your chronic condition.

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Speakers

Marc Matoza, Marijuana Med Today
Arnetra Shettleworth, Columbia Care

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Overview: Can Medical Marijuana Help You?

Patient Information Brochure
MMTCFL Chronic Conditions Resources
How Cannabis Works on the Human Body: The Endocannabinoid System with Cannigma

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Materials from the Webinar

View the slides from the live presentation
How CBD Oil Affects Chronic Pain and Inflammation with Thomas DeLauer
Weed (Parts 1-4) with Dr. Sanjay Gupta

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Cannachats Recommended Reading

Medical Marijuana Help
Basics of Medical Marijuana in Florida

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Meet the Speakers

Marc Matoza

Host
President, Marijuana Med Today

Marc is a technology and business development manager with expertise in technology, database, cybersecurity, and online/web/mobile computing. As an inventor, computer scientist, and entrepreneur, he has developed innovative tech products including a leading relational database, multiple digital multilingual dictionaries, a digital bilingual reference/grammar-checking word processing add-on, golf [sports] swing video capture & analysis solutions, and certified safe anti-microbial environments.

Marc’s multinational background includes technology and corporate management experience with Hewlett Packard, Netscape Communications, Ashton-Tate, AlphaGraphics SA, MarcTech SA/LLC, and Swing Solutions. This includes managing operations in Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the USA. He has a Computer Science Degree from California Polytechnic State University.

Arnetra Shettleworth

Guest Speaker
Vice President of Operations, Southern Region, Columbia Care

Born and raised in Miami, FL. A graduate of the University of Florida with an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. I’ve had an extensive career in highly competitive, service-intensive environments where success greatly depends on inspiring and engaging highly diverse teams. I’ve developed an innate ability to attract high performing individuals that will completely fulfill and exceed expectations.

Can Medical Marijuana Help You?

Overview by Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics of Florida

Medical Marijuana is used to treat a variety of lifestyle conditions. In Florida, the Office of Medical Marijuana Use outlines the rules and regulations for the State Medical Marijuana program.

More About CBD:

Neither CBN or CBG produce an intoxicating high on its own, though they both affect the high when combined with THC (source: Weedmaps)
CBN is a byproduct of THC which is produced by environmental factors experienced during the growth and storage of a plant containing THC (source: Industrial Hemp Farms)
CBG is in both cannabis and hemp, but patients should research the individual CBD product if not purchased from a licensed dispensary because some extraction processes may greatly reduce the amount of CBG in the product (source: Cresco Labs)

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How Cannabis Works On The Human Body: The Endocannabinoid System

The Cannigma, Apr. 2020

“What does the endocannabinoid system have to do with cannabis? It has everything to do with the order in which scientists discovered the different molecules.

Cannabinoid receptors, the locks attached to cells in our bodies, were only discovered because researchers were trying to understand how plant-based cannabinoids (phyto-cannabinoids) like THC interact with the body. So they were named cannabinoid receptors, after the main chemicals that activates them.“

Materials from the Webinar

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How CBD Oil Affects Chronic Pain and Inflammation

Thomas DeLauer | Octagon Biolabs CBD, Aug. 2018

“Cytokines are signaling proteins that ultimately recruit inflammation to happen. Cytokines will trigger specific immune cells to release inflammation or actually even reduce inflammation, given the right circumstances. […] CBD actually modulates the cytokine production.”

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Weed (Parts 1-3)

CNN Documentary | Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 2013-2015

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Weed (Part 4)

CNN Documentary | Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 2016

Dr. Sanjay Gupta‘s enterprise reporting on medical marijuana has led to five documentary films, “Weed,” which were awarded the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.