If you talk to any police officer
they'll tell you that they would rather
arrest somebody who is a little bit high
than somebody who's drunk because the
people who are drunk, hey they might kill
you, and the people that are high, they could
give you a hug. We've gone through a lot
of regulation changes and things are
changing in the cannabis space but what
we've experienced are more individuals
especially our seniors coming to us for
different types of disorder and wanting
to know more about cannabinoid there
appear in the work that we do we've been
blessed to have dr. David Berman as our
director of Medicine who has an
extensive history in cannabis as
medicine as well as the history of
cannabis this is a 500 page book that
frames cannabis in the history of the
use of psychoactive drugs for
spirituality for healing for Commerce
and drug policy we have used to
marginalize discriminated against people
ever since hope innocent the sixth
declared that cannabis was a tool of the
devil in the fifteenth century and he
did that because it helped relieve the
pain of childbirth from women and we
know that they have that pain because of
Eve's sin the list goes on and on about
the way in which we in this country as
well as around the world have used drug
policy to marginalize people and then
the last third of this book really talks
about cannabis in contemporary times in
its uses of medicine and the last
chapter talks about if we were really
serious about doing something about
substance abuse what we would do this is
a new book that's going to be coming out
October 2018 that is started designed
for nurses and doctors and I hope it
will be used as a textbook and it covers
a lot of the science related to a
cannabis cannabinoids in the
endocannabinoid system it's got a lot of
science in it but most of it is readable
and understandable the American Academy
of cannabinoid Medicine is there to
certify those can
medicine specialists - a practicing good
quality medicine we want to marginalize
those doctors like the doc in Venice
Beach who has the gallon the bikini out
in the front saying evaluation is 3995
cannabis is a real medicine it deserves
more respect yes absolutely if you read
the doctors book he gave me a copy last
year it's one of the most definitive
sources on history I didn't know
cannabis had people vilifying it I
thought that started with reefer madness
in the 30s I didn't know it went all the
way back and well now for any of the
viewers that want to buy your book is it
available online for purchase on Amazon
or you can get it on my website David
Berman MD comm and the publisher of this
is Blue Point press you can get it in
their website and I really appreciate
you giving me the opportunity to bring
these to the attention of your audience
