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The Schedule Saturday, January 23rd 9 am pacific - 5 pm pacific
Opening remarks
Max Simon, Founder, Green Flower
How the endocannabinoid system really works. Dr. Sunil Aggarwal
Why cannabis strains affect people differently. Donald Land, PhD
Create a more effective cannabis dosing strategy. Dr. Dustin Sulak
The unspoken wellness benefits of cannabis. Steve DeAngelo
Lunch Break: 12 pm - 1 pm pacific Ask the Experts Panel Cannabis, the perfect treatment for PTSD. Bryan Krumm
How to talk about cannabis to unfamiliar or skeptical people. Dale Sky Jones
Cannabis for healing chronic illnesses. Uwe Blesching
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Can cannabis solve our intimacy problems? Dr. Jordan Tishler
The incredible safety of cannabis. Why this plant will not harm you or society. Mary Lynn Mathre
The Entourage Effect: Why THC and CBD work better together. Constance Finley
Closing thoughts (end by 5 pm) Sunday, January 24th 9 am pacific - 5 pm pacific
Opening remarks
Max Simon, Founder, Green Flower
Cannabis as a better treatment for addiction. Amanda Reiman
How to treat cancer with cannabis. Mara Gordon
How each ingestion method affects you differently. Dr. Deborah Malka
CBD: A medical marijuana game-changer. Martin Lee
Cannabis for pets. Alison Ettel
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Lunch Break: 12 pm - 1 pm pacific Minority Cannabis Business Association Jesce Horton
Cannabis as a tool for spiritual growth and healing. Nurse Heather
Cannabis for seizures and epilepsy. Heather Jackson
Cannabis for arthritis and inflammation issues. Dr. Gregory Smith
Quality control: Get clear on what constitutes clean, safe, and effective cannabis. Joel Stanley
Closing thoughts (end by 5 pm)
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Welcome to the 1st Cannabis Health Summit
We’re so glad you’re here. We produced this Virtual Summit because we believe that cannabis is the ultimate medicine for so much of the pain in the world. Just listen to these experts, get the facts, and you’ll likely agree -- cannabis is medicine. At the same time, there are many forces that continue to work against this incredible plant. People still hold an out-dated public perception of who uses cannabis. Our restrictive laws prevent people from getting safe, affordable access. And our government still puts people in jail or ruins their lives just for possession. All this changes when the world becomes more well-educated and informed. So thank you for being here with us, forming your own opinion, and spreading cannabis truth around the globe. Enjoy the show. Much love,
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2016 Sunil Aggarwal, MD, PhD Physician-Scientist
Dr. Aggarwal is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, an Affiliated Faculty of the MultiCare Institute of Research and Innovation, and an Associate Member of the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research. A physician and medical geographer, Aggarwal’s PhD dissertation was on: “The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access, delivery, and distress”. He has published approximately 2 dozen peer-reviewed articles in journals of law, pain medicine, palliative medicine, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine. He led the effort which culminated in the AMA’s changing its position on the classification of cannabis in federal law in 2009. He is Vice President of the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility and an Honorary Trustee of the Medicinal Cannabis Foundation of India. He is a Board-Certified physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Board-eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. His website is www.cannabinologist.org and he is on twitter @humansunil and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sunilaggarwalMDPhD.
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The Drug Policy Alliance is the nation’s leading organization working to end the war on drugs. We envision new drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. DPA has been at the forefront of marijuana reform for 20 years, and welcomes the emergence of a responsible, safe, ethical and inclusive marijuana industry.
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Uwe Blesching, PhD Cannabis Health Index
Uwe Blesching is medical journalist and regular contributor in the fields of the cannabinoid science, Mind-Body-Medicine, phytopharmacology, as well as evidence-based illness prevention and treatment protocols. In addition to his lifelong passion for integrative Medicine, his latest book the Cannabis Health Index is informed by Blesching’s rigorous in depth research and twenty years’ experience in emergency medicine as a Paramedic for the City of San Francisco. He holds a BA in Humanities from the New College of California; an MA in Psychology and a PhD in Higher Education and Social Change from the Western Institute for Social Research.
Alison Ettel TreatWell
Alison has a varied professional background from Wall Street, think-tanks to software, along with a few masters degrees. Her true calling, however, came after trying cannabis while recovering from a coma. She and her business partner founded TreatWell with the goal to raise the bar for the entire cannabis industry. TreatWell’s mission is to provide the highest quality cannabis medicine possible for both people and pets. TreatWell strives to be ahead of the curve, integrating the latest research on the benefits of the cannabis plant with our 20+ years of experience treating patients to offer innovative, effective and safe medicinal products for humans and pets. 10
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Steve DeAngelo Harborside Health Center
An inspired leader, Steve DeAngelo has almost four decades of activism and advocacy in the cannabis reform movement. His vision and leadership have been featured by news teams from around the globe including major news outlets in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Brazil and the United Kingdom. The media has featured Steve DeAngelo’s landmark Harborside Health Center in their coverage in the emerging cannabis industry in California and nationwide for a reason. It is a place where safe access, compassionate and responsible use and lab tested high quality medicine is offered to patients in great need of relief from a wide range of medical conditions. Patients come first at Harborside. Steve has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the BBC; Fortune Magazine and literally every major network news source in the country. His creation of a model medical cannabis dispensary and lifelong cannabis activism coupled with his extensive knowledge in this arena has made him one of the most respected speakers in the cannabis and hemp industries.
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Constance Finley Constance Therapeutics
Constance Finley is founder and CEO of Constance Therapeutics, a California Proposition 215 compliant medical cannabis collective inspired by her personal experience with medical cannabis as a means to manage symptoms caused by a rare autoimmune disease. At the forefront of Whole Medicine, Constance Therapeutics works alongside healthcare professionals to provide patients with the best possible treatment options, including high-quality, flower-based cannabinoid therapeutics developed through a stringent, science-informed and patent-pending oil extraction method. Prior to Constance Therapeutics, Finley was founder and CEO of Housing Allies, Inc., where she pioneered the use of tax credits to create low-income housing for the working poor and ill. Finley holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts in Eastern Studies and Psychology from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco.
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Mara Gordon Aunt Zelda’s
Mara Gordon specializes in the development of cannabis extract treatment protocols for seriously ill patients in California. She is the co-founder of Aunt Zelda’s and Zelda Therapeutics. Prior to Aunt Zelda’s, Mara worked as a process engineer, helping Fortune 500 companies create intelligent software by utilizing the Rational Unified Process. This experience has enabled her to take a detailed and scientific approach to medical cannabis. Recognizing a need for patient focused software, Gordon founded CDRMed. With CDRMed, physicians and medical health professionals are able to make treatment recommendations based on the latest and highest-quality data. Gordon sits on the boards of Zelda Therapeutics, #illegallyhealed and New Frontier. She has presented at multiple CME-accredited medical conferences, along with inaugural medical cannabis conferences in Australia, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic, as well as other events throughout the United States.
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Jesce Horton Minority Cannabis Business Association
Jesce Horton is a cannabis business owner in Portland, OR. He is also the cofounder and Chairman of the Minority Cannabis Business Association, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing diversity in the cannabis industry through educational programs on economic empowerment, social justice and patient/consumer awareness. Jesce sees it as his mission to make a positive and sustaining impact in the cannabis industry. In his words, “Cannabis has the ability to do amazing good in our society, but the industry will never reach its full potential without keeping sustainable business practices, like diversity and environmental efficiency, as core principles of its development and growth”.
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Heather Jackson Realm of Caring Foundation
Heather Jackson has been a part of the non-profit world for fifteen years; always with fascinating and innovative start-ups, and always with a groundbreaking or disruptive focus. She is now the CEO of the Realm of Caring Foundation. Her passion came after her son Zaki displayed complete seizure remission on Charlotte’s Web. She went from caring for Zaki while he received hospice palliative services to caring for thousands all over the world helping them educate themselves and access this therapy. Disruptive? Yes! You do not get much more disruptive than cannabis for children. But to Heather, it is a human rights issue. She has now dedicated her life to furthering research, education and advocacy into this often misunderstood therapy option. The Realm of Caring has received both national and international attention and has been featured on CNN, Dateline, The View, New York Times, National Geographic, and more.
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Dale Sky Jones Executive Chancellor, Oaksterdam University
Dale Sky Jones is focused on enhancing the debate for cannabis policy reform through Oaksterdam University, and establishing the political and social climate that encourages policy reform. She has a voice in setting national priorities, and is an expert commentator on current events. Spokeswoman for the Prop 19 Campaign in California, now Chairwoman of the Board for the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, Dale is also a founding Board Member of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), Californians to Regulate Medical Marijuana (CRMM) and co-founded the Medical Cannabis Safety Council (MCSC) in 2008, which spawned several safety programs and businesses. When the media needs a credible source for information, Dale is the frequent goto expert. Oaksterdam, founded in 2007, is a business and horticulture college that educates patients, professionals, growers and regulators. With 150 subject matter experts as faculty, more than 25,000 students from over 30 countries have taken studies.
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Bryan Krumm, CPN PTSD Expert
Bryan Krumm is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in Albuquerque, NM and the director of Harmony Psychiatric, LLC. He currently manages close to a thousand patients in New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program. He helped draft New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Law and he currently has has a rescheduling petition for Cannabis pending with the DEA.
Dr. Donald Land Chief Scientific Consultant, Steep Hill, Inc.
As one of the top experts in cannabis science in the US, Dr. Land is Chief Scientific Consultant to Steep Hill, where he provides his expertise in guiding the Science and Product Development teams. Dr. Land co-founded Halent Laboratory in 2010, merging Halent into Steep Hill in 2013, to unite the two leading cannabis science firms in the industry. Dr. Land received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His work at UC Irvine earned him an IBM Corporation Graduate Research Fellowship. Dr. Land became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the UC Davis in 1991, at just 28 years of age. Dr. Land is currently a tenured professor in Chemistry at UC Davis, where his research spans the fields of Forensic Science, Biotechnology and Sensor Development. For more information on Steep Hill, please visit our website: www.steephill.com. 23
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Martin A. Lee Project CBD
Martin Lee is the director of Project CBD (projectcbd.org), an educational service that focuses on cannabis science and therapeutics, and associate editor of O’Shaughnessy’s, the journal of cannabis in clinical practice. He is the author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific, winner of the American Botanical Council’s James A. Duke Award for Excellence in Botanical Literature. Lee is also co-founder of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) and the author of The Beast Reawakens and Acid Dreams: The CIA, the Sixties and Beyond.
Deborah Malka, MD, PhD Cannabis Plus
Deborah Malka MD, PhD offers medical marijuana evaluations to provide patients with the ability to use marijuana as a part of their medical treatment under California Proposition 215, also known as the California Compassionate Use Act of 1996 DeborahHealth and Safety Code Section 11362.5, and under SB420, section 11362.7. During your visit, Deborah Malka MD, PhD will gather information about your medical history and lifestyle in order to evaluate you for treatment options that work for your unique conditions. So we can understand your ailments for which you use medicinal marijuana, please bring in any updated prescriptions you might be taking and physical medical records from a primary care doctor.
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We do our best to make our office a comfortable, safe setting where patients can receive the care and information they need to continue on the road to complete mental and physical well-being. Our staff is compassionate and well-trained, and are available by phone to answer any questions you may have or to schedule an appointment.
Nurse Heather Manus, RN Cannabis Nurses
Nurse Heather is a native New Mexican and Registered Nurse specializing in all aspects of medical cannabis care. As founder of the Arizona Cannabis Nurses Association, Nurse Heather was responsible for the addition of Posttraumatic Stress as a debilitating condition under Arizona’s medical marijuana act. Her organization recently petitioned to add 8 new conditions in Arizona including: Traumatic Brain Injury, Autism, Arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Neuropathy, Tourette syndrome, & Diabetes. In 2015, Nurse Heather was honored and awarded the CannAwards “Best Charitable/Community Outreach Program,” and Cannabis Business Awards “Activist of the Year.” Heather began her career as a Registered Nurse providing psychiatric home health care to patients in New Mexico. In both, New Mexico and Arizona, she opened the first medical cannabis infusion kitchens to provide cannabis patients with smokeless alternatives. Nurse Heather has extensive background in natural healing modalities and herbal remedies, some of which she obtained from her close association with Hispanic and Native American healers in New Mexico. Nurse Heather believes that Cannabis is a Gateway to Health.
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Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN Patients Out of Time
Mary Lynn (ML) Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN has been a nurse for 40 years; beginning as a medical surgical nurse in the US Navy Nurse Corps, then in acute care settings, changing specialty to addictions nursing in 1987, and focusing on medical cannabis since 1984. Co-Founder and President of Patients Out of Time and a Founding member and President of the American Cannabis Nurses Association. Ms. Mathre is the editor of Cannabis in Medical Practice: A Legal, Historical and Pharmacological Overview of the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana (1997) and co-editor of Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science and Sociology (2002).
Amanda Reiman Drug Policy Alliance
Amanda Reiman is Manager of Marijuana Law and Policy at the Drug Policy Alliance, where she works to develop DPA’s marijuana reform work as it relates to legislative and initiative drafting, campaign strategy, policy advocacy, media relations, fundraising, and public education in the local, state, federal, and international jurisdictions in which DPA is active. Reiman has conducted numerous studies on medical marijuana dispensaries, patients and the use of marijuana as a treatment for addiction and served as the first chairwoman of the Medical Cannabis Commission for the City of Berkeley. She currently serves on the Cannabis Regulatory Commission for the city of Oakland, and has consulted with various cities, states, and nations on the development of medical and adult use marijuana policy. 28
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Reiman earned her PhD in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a lecturer there, where she teaches Drug and Alcohol Policy, Substance Abuse Treatment, and Sexuality and Social Work.
Dr. Gregory Smith, MD, MPH Medical Cannabis for Health Care Providers
Dr. Gregory Smith earned his medical degree from Rush Medical School in Chicago, and a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University. He completed residency training in Preventive Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Since getting out of the US Army as a Major, Dr. Smith has been in primary care practice in California, Georgia and Florida for the past 25 years. He first trained on use of medical cannabis in California in 2000, and has made medical cannabis and CBD oil, part of his practice since that time. Dr. Smith is an avid writer, having published two medical textbooks, a novel called “Malpractice,” and articles with many magazines and over a dozen peer reviewed medical publications. Dr. Smith has been working with medical cannabis-related issues full-time for the past 2 1/2 years. He is Director of Medical Affairs for First Harvest Financial, Inc. (a cannabis investment firm), and for CBC Biotechnologies, Inc. (a manufacturer of biosynthesized cannabinoids and terpenes). He is also Director of Medical Affairs, with Cognition Life Sciences Inc., a company currently involved with research trials of Cognizol, a THC-based nasal spray for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Joel Stanley CW Botanicals
Joel Stanley is the oldest of the Stanley Brothers, who are known for developing the internationally recognized Charlotte’s Web™ CBD products. Joel and his brothers have been featured on CNN with Sanjay Gupta, Dateline, the View, and many other national media outlets. Joel is the CEO of CW Botanicals, a social enterprise focused on quality and social responsibility. The Stanley Brothers are also co-founders of the Realm of Caring Foundation, a non-profit focused on research initiatives and educational resources for patients and physicians seeking medical cannabis therapies.
Dustin Sulak, D.O. Healer.com
Dr. Dustin Sulak is an integrative medicine physician with an emphasis in osteopathy, energy medicine, mind-body medicine, and medical cannabis. His clinical practice focuses on treating refractory conditions in adults and children with an individualized, health-centered approach. Dr. Sulak is the founder of Integr8 Health, an integrative medicine center with 3 locations in New England that treat over 18,000 patients with medical cannabis, and Healer.com, an education and research portal for medical cannabis patients.
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Dr. Jordan Tishler, MD Inhale MD
Dr. Tishler is a leading expert in the field of Medical Cannabis therapeutics. As an Emergency Physician, he has treated countless alcoholics and drug users. His observation that he had never seen a Cannabis overdose lead Dr. Tishler to delve deeply into the science of Cannabis safety and treatment. After years of research and learning, Dr. Tishler brings his knowledge, reason, and caring to patients here at Inhale Medical Consulting, and through his advocacy work at the local and national levels. Dr. Tishler graduated from both Harvard College and then Harvard Medical School (affectionately known together as Preparation H), trained in Internal Medicine at the esteemed Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and has spent many years working with the underserved, particularly our Veterans. Dr. Tishler is also a parallel entrepreneur working for patients’ well being in the corporate space, helping to elevate dosing and safety profiles of medication, and helping to establish best practice for bringing new Cannabis products to market. Dr. Tishler is well regarded by peers and patients alike as caring, compassionate, and easy to talk to.
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