Your Guide to Medical Marijuana Dosing
Medical Marijuana Awareness Post-Webinar Resources
The Webinar
Thank you to everyone who attended the April 28th Medical Marijuana Awareness webinar “Your Guide to Medical Marijuana Dosing”
Watch the video on our YouTube Channel! Your questions and comments during the live Q&A help to make a great source of information for the next person seeking treatment.
Speakers featured in this webinar were host Marc Matoza and guest speakers Kate Palazzolo and Cameron Vance.
Ongoing Education
We’ve partnered with medical marijuana education experts to provide you further resources on the topic of Medical Marijuana Dosing.
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Speakers
- Marc Matoza, Marijuana Med Today
- Cameron Vance, Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics of Florida
- Kate Palazzolo, Regional Sales Manager, MÜV™ by AltMed Florida
Overview: Your Guide to Medical Marijuana Dosing
- Patient Information Brochure
- MMTCFL Chronic Conditions Resources
- More information about Dosing
- CBD Wheel
- How Cannabis Works on the Human Body: The Endocannabinoid System with Cannigma
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
Cannachats Recommended Reading
- Medical Marijuana Help
- Marijuana Dosing Help
- Basics of Medical Marijuana in Florida
Meet the Speakers
Marc Matoza
Host Speaker
President and Founder, 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.
Cameron Vance, PharmD
Pharmacist, Medical Marijuana Specialist
Chief Information Officer, Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics of Florida
Cameron Vance is an experienced leader in pharmacy operations management, practice development, team management, performance metrics, accreditation, training, planning, and physician marketing and education. His doctorate in pharmacy is from West Virginia University, and he is a professional member of the American Pharmacists Association and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
Cameron is a multifaceted pharmacist with diverse experiences in the fields of community, compounding, veteran, psychiatric, and hospital pharmacy. His special interests are in medicinal cannabis, pain management, neurology, and endocrinology.
Your Guide to Medical Marijuana Dosing / December 9, 2020
Kate Palazzolo
Guest Speaker
Regional Sales Manager, MÜV™ by AltMed Florida
Kate Palazzolo holds her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and a Master’s Degree in Education. She believes strongly in the healing benefits of cannabis and its use as an alternative to Western medicine. Her mission is to bring awareness and education about alternative forms of medicine to physicians and their patients.
Your Guide to Medical Marijuana Dosing
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.
The goal is relief with minimal side-effects (intoxication). For medical cannabis, this means that less is typically more. For most cannabis consumers, gradually increasing their dose will at first result in stronger effects; but after a certain point – tolerance(unique to each individual)
See Also from MMTCFL:
“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.“
See Also from Cannigma:
Continued Education and Awareness Resources
Materials from the Webinar
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.”
Weed (Parts 1-3)
CNN Documentary | Dr. Sanjay Gupta, 2013-2015
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.
Cannachats Recommended Reading
Medical Marijuana Help
Center for Medical Cannabis Research University of California, San Diego
Cannabis Pharmacy: The practical guide to medical marijuana. Pgs 185-187. Backes, M. W. (2017).
Basics of Medical Marijuana in Florida
Patient Information Brochure
Medical Marijuana Awareness Webinars, in partnership with MMTCFL
Office of Medical Marijuana Use
Florida Department of Health | KnowtheFactsMMJ.com
Florida Medical Marijuana Patient Application
Click to Download from the Office of Medical Marijuana Use
Medical Marijuana Patient Webinars
MarijuanaAware.com
Cannabis 101 with Leafly
Leafly.com | Cannabis 101
Suncoast NORML
suncoastnorml.org
Supplemental Research
The Cannabis Health Index, pgs. 259-264. Uwe Blesching, P. (2015).
The Economic Burden of Prescription Opioid Overdose, Abuse, and Dependence in the United States. Florence CS, Zhou C, Luo F, Xu L. 2013. Med Care. 2016;54(10):901-906. doi:10.1097/MLR.0000000000000625.
Portenoy RK, et al. Nabiximols for opioid-treated cancer patients with poorly-controlled chronic pain: A randomized, placebo-controlled, graded-dose trial
The Journal of Pain. 2012;13(5):438-449
Hsieh C, et al. Internalization and recycling of the CB1 cannabinoid receptor
Journal of Neurochemistry. 1999;73(2):493-501
Multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study of the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of THC: CBD extract and THC extract in patients with intractable cancer-related pain.
Johnson JR, et al. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2010;39(2): 167-179
An ultra-low dose of tetrahydrocannabinol provides cardioprotection
Waldman M, et al. Biochemical Pharmacology. 2013;85(11):1626-1633
Thompson GR, et al. Oral and intravenous toxicity of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol in rhesus monkeys.
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 1974;27(3):648-665
Marijuana use and short-term outcomes in patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction.
Johnson-Sasso CP, Kao D, Walker LA. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2016;67(13):569
Cannabinoids in neurodegenerative disorders and stroke/brain trauma: From preclinical models to clinical applications.
Fernández-Ruiz J, Moro MA, Martínez-Orgado J. Neurotherapeutics. 2015;12(4):793-806.
Effect of marijuana use on outcomes in traumatic brain injury.
Nguyen BM, et al.The American Surgeon. 2014;80(10):979-983
Prior cannabis use is associated with outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage.
Di Napoli M, et al. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2016;41(5-6):248-255