Treating Post-Traumatic Stress
with Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana Awareness Post-Webinar Resources
Treating Post-Traumatic Stress with Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana Awareness Post-Webinar Resources
The Webinar
Thank you to everyone who attended the May 28th Medical Marijuana Awareness webinar on Post-Traumatic Stress and Medical Marijuana!
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 Joshua Littrell, Founder and Managing Director of the Veterans for Cannabis Foundation.
Ongoing Education
We’ve partnered with medical marijuana education experts to provide you further resources on the topic of post traumatic stress and medical marijuana.
Click an item from the index below to skip to that section.
Overview: What is Post Traumatic Stress?
- Medical Marijuana 101
- MMTCFL Post Traumatic Stress Resources
- How Medical Cannabis Helps With Post Traumatic Stress
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
- Post Traumatic Stress & Medical Marijuana
- Basics of Medical Marijuana in Florida
What is Post Traumatic Stress?
Overview by
Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics of Florida
PTS is a common, normal, and often adaptive response to experiencing a traumatic or stressful event. Your heart may race, hands shake, you may sweat or feel afraid and nervous.
PTSS is a clinically-diagnosed condition.
Common symptoms include reliving a traumatic event through nightmares, flashbacks, or constantly thinking about it. Although some of these symptoms sound similar to PTS, the difference is the duration and intensity
See Also from MMTCFL:
“While research into cannabis as a treatment for PTSD is still sparse, large numbers of PTSD patients themselves report that it helps with both the primary symptoms of the condition and secondary side effects including anxiety and sleep disturbances.
Furthermore, because cannabis triggers body receptors that regulate memory, some researchers are looking at ways medical cannabis could help the brain “overwrite” traumatic memories.“
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
Post Traumatic Stress & Medical Marijuana
J.L.C. Lee, L.J. Bertoglio, F.S. Guimaraes, and C.W. Stevenson (2017). British Journal of Pharmacology, doi:10.1111/bph.13724
Shishko, I., Oliveira, R., Moore, T. A., & Almeida, K. (2018). The mental health clinician, 8(2), 86–94. doi:10.9740/mhc.2018.03.086
Bitencourt, R. M., & Takahashi, R. N. (2018). Frontiers in neuroscience, 12, 502. doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00502
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
Central Florida NORML
cflnorml.org
Supplemental Research
Pablo Roitman, et al. Clinical Drug Investigation 34.8 (2014): 73-77
Cannabis and Pain: A Clinical Review
Hill, K.P., Palastro, M.D., Johnson B., & Ditre, J. (2017). Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. Vol 2.1, DOI: 10.1089/can.2017.0017
Animal Models of Fear Relapse
T.D. Goode, S. Maren, ILAR J 2014;55:246-58.
Cannabis Pharmacology
Ethan B. Russo, et al., Advances in Pharmacology (2017 in press)
CBD A Patients Guide to Medical Cannabis: Healing without the High
Leinow, L. & Birnbaum, J. (2017). Pg. 154-157
The Cannabis Health Index. Pgs. 337-342
Blesching, U. (2015)
Bidirectional switch of the valence associated with hippocampal contextual memory engram
Redondo, Roger L., Josuha Kim, Autumn L. Arons, Steve Ramirez, Xu Liu, and Susumu Tonegawa. (2014). Nature 513(7518):426-30. Doi:10.1038/nature13725
Neumeister, A., Normandin, M. D., Pietrzak, R. H., Piomelli, D., Zheng, M. Q., Gujarro-Anton, A., … Huang, Y. (2013). Molecular psychiatry, 18(9), 1034–1040. doi:10.1038/mp.2013.61
Chronic PTSD in Vietnam Combat Veterans: Course Illness and Substance Abuse
J. Douglas Bremner, S.M. Southwick, A. Darnell, and D.S. Charney, American Journal of Psychiatry 153, no. 3 (1996): 369-75
“New Uses for the Old Hemp Plant”, Marijuana
Ernest L Abel, (1980), 105-21; and Cristobal Acosta, Tratado de las drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales… (Editorial MAXTOR, 2005
Endogenous Cannabinoid Signaling is Essential for Stress Adaptation
Matthew N. Hill, R.J. McLaughlin, B. Bingham, L. Shrestha, T.T. Lee, J.M. Gray, C.J. Hillard, B.B Gorzalka, V. Viau, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 20 (2010):9406-11.
Medical Cannabis and Mental Health: A Guided Systematic Review
Zach Walsh, et al., Clinical Psychology Review 51(2017): 15-29
PTSD Symptom Reports of Patients Evaluated for the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program
George R. Greer, Charles S. Grob, and Ada L. Halberstadt, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 46.1 (2014):73-77.
The Genetic Structure of Marijuana and Hemp
Sawler, J., Stout, J.M., Gardner, K.M., Hudson, D. Vidmar, J., Butler, L., Page, J.E., and Myles, S. (2015). PLOS ONE; DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.01332927