The surprising story of medical marijuana and pediatric epilepsy | Josh Stanley | TEDxBoulder
Josh and his brothers developed a non-psychotropic strain of marijuana which is drastically reducing seizures for pediatric epilepsy patients in Colorado.
Josh and his brothers developed a non-psychotropic strain of marijuana which is drastically reducing seizures for pediatric epilepsy patients in Colorado.
The complexity of medical cannabis stems from the millions of combinations of doses and cannabinoid/terpene profiles. Despite this challenge, a systematic and intelligent approach can lead to informed recommendations that most benefit patients. Over time as more research is gathered, these recommendations will become progressively more robust, leading to higher levels of satisfaction with the first recommendation.
More importantly, modulating the activity of the endocannabinoid system turned out to hold therapeutic promise in a wide range of disparate diseases and pathological conditions, ranging from mood and anxiety disorders, movement disorders such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury, to cancer, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, stroke, hypertension, glaucoma, obesity/metabolic syndrome, and osteoporosis, to name just a few.
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