Your Guide to Medical Marijuana Dosing
Medical Marijuana Awareness Post-Webinar Resources
The Webinar
Thank you to everyone who attended the May 4, 2022 Medical Marijuana Awareness and Wellness 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 Dr. Terel Newton, Medical Director of Trulieve.
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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- Trulieve
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- Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics of Florida
Speakers
- Marc Matoza, Marijuana Med Today
- Dr. Terel Newton MD, Trulieve
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
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Meet the Speakers
Marc Matoza, Series Host
President and Founder, Marijuana Med Today
Read more about Marc Matoza
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.
Read about Medical Marijuana Awareness Webinars
Dr. Terel Newton, MD
Medical Director, Trulieve
Read more about Dr. Terel Newton
Dr. Newton specializes in creating comprehensive care plans for acute and chronic pain patients. He is a board certified anesthesiologist with fellowship training in Interventional Pain management and holds multiple additional certifications, not limited to: treating opioid dependence and Medical Marijuana Treatment Center Medical Director.
While his focus is on Non-Surgical Interventional Techniques, he is also trained and experienced in spinal cord stimulation and radiofrequency ablation procedures. He serves as a mentor to medical students, practicing physicians, and other professionals interested in interventional pain management and the medical cannabis industry. Dr. Newton has hosted and presented on a wide variety of topics around the country including innovative pain treatments, advanced interventional procedures, regenerative medicine, clinical applications of medical cannabis and other topics at conferences, webinars, social media interviews, television segments, medical cannabis dispensary tours and other educational events. He has also contributed to clinical research on using medical cannabis to help patients wean down on multiple drug classes - opioids, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, muscle relaxants, sedative hypnotics for sleep and other medications that may have severe and potentially deadly side effects.
He currently serves as the Medical Director for Trulieve dispensary and holds active medical licenses in Florida and North Carolina. He continues to seek opportunities to collaborate with organizations and individuals advocating for healthcare providers and patients throughout the country.
Webinars Featuring Dr. Terel Newton
Dosing with Medical Marijuana / May 4, 2022
Pain Management & Medical Marijuana / May 18, 2022
Arthritis & Medical Marijuana / May 25, 2022
Sleep, Insomnia, & Medical Marijuana / June 1, 2022
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