“Only Eat a Quarter of the Cookie”: On Cannabis With Donald Abrams

The Accelerators (Drs. Matt Spraker and Simul Parikh) host Dr. Donald Abrams, MD, Medical and Integrative Oncologist at the UCSF Oscher Center for Integrative Health.

Donald offers a comprehensive review of a very poorly understood topic!

We review the history of cannabis regulation in the US and globally, different delivery forms, and Donald's observations throughout his oncology practice.

We additionally discuss indications for use in cancer care; is smoking cannabis safer than taking sugary edibles?

Of course, we discuss cannabis misinformation. Right now Donald offers the best discussion of this topic that we have seen.

We close the episode with a dicussion of CBD, the future, and a bit on studies of psychedelic therapies and melatonin.

Don't miss the ASCO Cannabis and Cannabinoids guideline. 

Here are some other things we discussed during the show:

• The Marijuana Tax Act and AMA opposition
• The Controlled Substences Act
• Federal Marijuana Compassionate Use Program
• Braun et al., JCO, National Survey of Medical Oncologists Perceptions
• NASEM report on The Health Effects of Cannabis
• Tashkin, Annals ATS, Effects of marijana smoking on the lung
• Nabiximols
• Waissengren et al, TAMO, Effect of cannabis on oxaliplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy
• Overview of cannabis for peripheral neuropathy (Cleveland Clinic)
• Munson et al, JNCI, Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids
• Guzmán et al., Br J Cancer, Pilot study of CBD for recurrent GBM
• Twelves et al., Br J Cancer, Phase 1b study of CBD for recurrent GBM
• Book Rec: The First Cell, Azra Raza
• Piper et al, Cancers, Regarding cannabinoids and immunotherapy

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