Dr. Rasean Hodge is a trailblazing physician in the field of medical cannabis. He’s a Morehouse School of Medicine graduate with a medical practice focused on treating chronic pain with both conventional healthcare and medical cannabis. 

During this thought-provoking discussion with CannabizMD Founder/CEO Jacquie Cohen Roth, MS, Dr. Hodge shares his remarkable journey from traditional medicine to becoming a passionate advocate for medical cannabis. Discover how a personal health challenge led him to explore and champion the therapeutic benefits of cannabis and a transition from skepticism of the efficacy of medical cannabis to advocacy for medical cannabis as a viable treatment option. 

Dr. Hodge shares his insights into Georgia’s evolving medical cannabis landscape and candidly discusses social equity in the cannabis industry. Jacquie and Dr. Hodge end their conversation with their respective visions for the future of cannabis in healthcare.

Don’t miss Dr. Hodge live at Tea Pad Atlanta on September 12, 2024, at One Flew South BeltLine, 6:00-9:00 PM. Nonprofit Tea Pad empowers equitable participation in the cannabis industry through education and professional development. Join the conversation at Tea Pad in Atlanta and be part of the movement advancing women and people of color in cannabis STEM fields! Additional information and tickets to Tea Pad ATL can be found here.

Fifteen years ago, Dr. Jordan Tishler was working in the emergency room at the Veterans Administration in Massachusetts. As he recounts in a CannabizMD Profile, his stories of what he saw and treated are mind-blowing including a lot of complications from substance abuse-related issues. At that time, conversations about the legalization of medical cannabis in Massachusetts had begun. He’d been trained that cannabis was a harmful drug. If it’s so harmful, he considered, why wasn’t he seeing disastrous patient outcomes related to cannabis in his emergency room? 

Forward to 2022 when Dr. TIshler is now a Cannabinoid Specialist with a private practice where he treats patients with cannabinoid therapies. He’s also founded the Association of Cannabinoid Specialists and has put together a rotation for later medical students at Harvard Medical School where he’s an adjunct professor. 

Dr. Tishler is the keynote speaker at the 3rd Annual CannabizMD Cannabis Science + Policy Forum on September 24th, 2022. The Forum is a hybrid event hosted in-person at the University of Maryland BioPark in Baltimore, Maryland, and virtually on Zoom.

Dr. Peter Grinspoon has a decades-long relationship and understanding of cannabis very few physicians can match. His father was a legendary cannabis Harvard scholar and as a child, he witnessed his older brother being treated with cannabis to alleviate the impact of cancer and the treatments – both were transformative for his views on cannabis. Dr. Grinspoon has been treating patients with medical cannabis in his practice since it was legalized in Massachusetts in 2015.

During his interview with CannabizMD Founder/CEO Jacquie Cohen Roth, MS, Dr. Grinspoon is refreshingly open and with great humility, shares his first-person experience with cannabis as a medicine and recreationally. In his most recent book, Seeing Through the Smoke, he untangles the complex history and truth physicians have had with viewing cannabis as a viable treatment option for their patients. 

The interview includes discussions on the validity of cannabis causing schizophrenia, cannabis use disorder (CUD), protections for medical cannabis patients in an adult-use market, and the critical need for cannabis education for both cannabis consumers and patients. 

Dr. Grinspoon joins the Boston CannabizMD Cannabis Science + Policy Forum on June 16, 2023, as both a panel member for “Clinical + Research Applications of Medical Cannabis” and as moderator of “Innovation + Emerging Trends”. The Forum is a hybrid event hosted in-person and virtually on Zoom. Additional information and registration can be found here.