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 March 10th Medical Marijuana Awareness webinar on Post-Traumatic Stress and Medical Marijuana!
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 Chelsea Millsaps, Regional Sales Manager in SW Florida, MÜV by AltMed Florida.
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.
Speakers
- Marc Matoza, Marijuana Med Today
- Chelsea Millsaps, Regional Sales Manager in SW Florida, MÜV™ by AltMed Florida
Overview: What is Post Traumatic Stress?
- Medical Marijuana 101 Patient Education Packet
- 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
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.
Chelsea-Elizabeth Millsaps
Guest Speaker on Post-Traumatic Stress
Regional Sales Manager in SW Florida, MÜV™ by AltMed Florida
Chelsea-Elizabeth Millsaps is a Regional Sales Manager for MÜV™ by AltMed. She oversees physician education, community education, sales, and special events in SW Florida.
Chelsea’s background includes a career in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries with a focus on business growth and both national and international development. Her focus in the pharmaceutical industry was targeting and educating specialty providers who would benefit from having a pharmacy in their offices. After identification, education, and contact execution her team would deploy and begin opening turn-key, provider-owned specialty pharmacies onsite for these specialty doctors. The depth of knowledge required her to know and understand the pharmaceuticals that best treated patients across many specialties including; Gastroenterology, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Oncology, and Urology. Her focus in Biotech was Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Specialties as well as Clinical Trials and Stem Cell Research.
Chelsea spends her free time consulting private practice owners and providers in Aesthetics and Natural Medicine. She received her degrees from The University of TN Knoxville and Covenant University.
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.“
The Florida Atlantic University College of Nursing is conducting a study to better understand the health impact of medical marijuana in older adults. If you are 60 or older, please consider taking this survey and assisting in their research! Click here to take the survey.
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
Medical Marijuana Patient Education Packet
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
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