{"id":1521,"date":"2016-11-19T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coscc.org\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2016-11-19T00:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:48:22","slug":"mj-for-mds-conference-november-14-162016-over-but-not-forgotten-by-a-long-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"MJ for MDs Conference , November 14-16\/2016- OVER BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY A LONG SHOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Audience- The Marijuana for Medical Professionals ( MJ for MD&#8217;s)\u00a02016 conference in Denver at the Westin Hotel ended this past Wednesday and was a roaring success.<\/p>\n<p>The attendees were treated to excellent lectures and vendor\/association booths. The lecturers covered many different topics including plant genetics and the endocannabinoid system, cannabis and pain psychology, cancer and cannabis research in Spain, a lecture from Trill Evolutions Dispensary, ongoing cannabis research\u00a0and more and this was only a partial list of Day 1 subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>Days 2 and 3 included Drs. Laura Borgelt speaking on cannabis use\u00a0from birth to death with emphasis on pregnancy. Dr. Raphael Mechoulam spoke via Skype as did Dr. C. Bogner(day 3). Dr. Mechoulum lectured on cannabis and the future of drugs while Dr. Bogner addressed the controversial subject of cannabis and autism spectrum disorders. These days continued with the fast paced lecture schedule that included topics about cannabis and psychiatry, ongoing research, bone marrow transplants, polypharmacy and the elderly, and also included a\u00a0panel discussion about\u00a0 who should be advising the cannabis patients.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that other highlight lectures were given by Drs. Donald Abrams (cancer), Deborah Malka ( cannabis as herbal medicine), Margaret Geddes (pediatric epilepsy), and Joe Cohen (immune\u00a0system), Michelle Ross (ECS Deficiency)\u00a0and Chris Shade ( liposomal preparations)\u00a0to name a few. Martha Montemayor, CNC,\u00a0(basic dosing and titration), and a group of individual nurses, Heather Manus, Marcie Cooper, Inbal Sikorin\u00a0gave important talks on a variety of topics related to cannabis. There were other important speakers\u00a0including medical cannabis patients\u00a0that struck a chord with the audience.<\/p>\n<p>This was a fine cannabis educational conference with fresh speakers and topics.\u00a0There was an international flair to this conference that added to the vibe each day.\u00a0The audience was engaged with the speakers, exhibitors and the networking was active. There was a well stocked book seller who did a brisk business as the attendees were hungry for cannabis information to take home.<\/p>\n<p>A good time was had by all and the cannabis IQ of the attendees went up by at least 20 points though this is unofficial.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Martha Montemayor, Sarara Corva and the entire staff who organized this conference and made it work each day. From this blogger&#8217;s view\/opinion- I came,\u00a0I listened and learned a lot \u00a0and for that I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the next\u00a0 Marijuana for Medical Professionals conference, hopefully sooner than later. Please remember audience that a conference like this takes time and effort to arrange and assemble given the many moving parts and fluidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Audience- The Marijuana for Medical Professionals ( MJ for MD&#8217;s)\u00a02016 conference in Denver at the Westin Hotel ended this past Wednesday and was a roaring success. The attendees were treated to excellent lectures and vendor\/association booths. The lecturers covered many different topics including plant genetics and the endocannabinoid system, cannabis and pain psychology, cancer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coscc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}