PLANT MEDICINE TUCSON

#3 USE TESTED HARDWARE

Heavy Metals can be leached out of hardware

Or vaporized from heating coil elements used to vaporize the oils

LIPID-LADEN MACROPHAGES

#2 Do not vape products with fancy flavors

Avoid fruit, candy, chocolate & related flavored products

#1 Only purchase flower, extracts, or pre-filled vape cartridges that can be traced from seed to sale, including manufacturing practices.

Transparency is key.

Must ask for COA certificates of analysis, to see what it contains.

Know what’s in the product you are buying!!

Vape crisis is multifaceted

Most notably is use of vitamin E acetate (tocopherol acetate) in vape formulations. Vitamin E is great for the skin, great for nutrition, does NOT belong in lungs.

3 suggestions to help avoid vape-related lung injury

*some vendors cut corners

Only use vaping products from regulated source.

Illicit market/unregulated devices can lead to unintended consequences

PG DEGRADES TO FORMELDAHYDE WITH HEAT

extensive pesticide contamination

SAFEST OPTION: Prioritize vaping devices designed for unadulterated FLOWER

Because extraction processes vary, & carrier oils (or other additives) that are not tested may pose unintended harms

The only two FDA-approved PTSD treatments fail to cure a majority of patients

The SRI Field to Healed Foundation

is nonprofit 501(c)(3) arm of SRI

Pursuing FDA indications for treating:

*Pain

*PTSD

*Substitution of opioid dependence.

“Drugs widely prescribed to treat severe PTSD symptoms for veterans are

sometimes no more effective than placebos…. and come with serious side effects, [including addiction from (benzodiazepines and other sleep aids such as Zolpidem etc) and DEATH--specifically black box warning on SSRI's noting increased suicidal thoughts.]”

Thousands of veterans report significant improvement in PTSD symptoms

6. Committee on Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Treatment of posttraumatic stress

disorder: An assessment of the evidence. 2008, Washington DC: National Academies Press.

Medical cannabis can help with PTSD symptoms including:

• anxiety
• insomnia
• nightmares
• depression
• self-regulation

“Drugs widely prescribed to treat severe PTSD symptoms for veterans are

sometimes no more effective than placebos…. and come with serious side effects, [including addiction from (benzodiazepines and other sleep aids such as Zolpidem etc) and DEATH--specifically black box warning on SSRI's noting increased suicidal thoughts.]”

6. Committee on Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Treatment of posttraumatic stress

disorder: An assessment of the evidence. 2008, Washington DC: National Academies Press.

I first became interested in medical cannabis because of my patients at the VA

20+ veterans

commit

suicide EACH

day

MOST RECENT DATA

from VA

FDA open to considering novel drug for early stage DEMENTIA to improve person’s thinking/memory

FDA previously said a drug had to deliver on 2 endpoints: cognition AND function--latter involves an ability to perform tasks

FDA’s guidance includes biomarkers--measurable substances offer clues to progress of disease

CANNABIS IS A PSYCHEDELIC?

NIDA Monopoly

• The only DEA-approved marijuana for FDA-approved research is grown University of Mississippi under NIDA contract.

• DEA Licensed Univ. MISS in 1968

• Marijuana is the ONLY controlled substance for which NIDA has a monopoly

VS.

Sue Sisley, MD

President & Principal Investigator

Scottsdale Research Institute