Marijuana as Medicine
A
workshop on high cannabinoid marijuana for healing
Marijuana is first and
foremost a medicinal plant. In recent times it has been denounced as a wicked
weed: those who like to use the high THC varieties have been demonized
by others who consider such behavior immoral, illegal and etc.
In the midst of the cultural story
about what an evil herb it is, we have completely lost sight of the fact that it has
powerful medicinal effects and that the right kind of medicinal marijuana can
be profoundly healing. Our ancestors used this medicinal plant for hundreds if not
thousands of years. Their understanding of this medicine has been lost in the all the hoopla about reefer madness.
With this history, it has been hard to find good information about
medicinal marijuana. It’s easy to learn about recreational marijuana (high THC) ;
there are many recreational users who can point the way to the best kinds. But there are
many of us who simply want to use marijuana
for chronic pain, for immune support, for fighting cancer, for many
other health reasons. We don’t want to get stoned on high THC varieties: we don’t want the munchies
and we don’t want to feel drugged. We want to be able to function in our lives,
drive a car and go to work without fear of getting busted for on the job use. For this we need high cannabinoid varieties
without high THC.
We need to know the process in Washington state by which we can legally obtain medicinal marijuana.
We need to learn what varieties of marijuana are likely
to best suit our specific health concerns and the best places to find these herbs. We
also need help in sorting through the bewildering array of ways to take
it: smoke or vapor? Edibles or
cannabutter?
Infused oils or tinctures? There are so many choices and it can be very confusing.
In this workshop we will dive deeply into the world of
medicinal marijuana. In the process we will learn what we need to know to better make this decision
about using this powerful medicinal plant, how to find good medicinal products and how to use it in our own lives.
Interested? Here are the details
Date: Sunday April 17th 2015
Time: 10
am to 2 pm
Location: Fertile
Ground Guesthouse in Olympia; more details sent upon registration Cost: $75
Contact: Janet Partlow 360-789-0278 or jpartlow@aol.com
About your teacher: Janet
Partlow is a clinical herbalist and shamanic healer,
studying the medicine path of the Qero people of the high Andes in Peru, and the
healing path of her Celtic ancestors. She is also a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner and brings twenty
years of professional herbalist experience to this workshop. In her formal
herbal training she studied plant
chemistry which is very useful when looking at medicinal marijuana. Since
medicinal marijuana became legal in Washington state, she has
worked with a number of clients to assist them in choosing medicinal marijuana for their specific
health concerns. She has been a
professional member of the American Herbalist
Guild.
Janet was a physician assistant in family
medicine and public health for twenty-six years until her retirement in 2002; she also brings a strong knowledge
of western medicine and pharmacology to her background in healing. She has been in private practice in Olympia since 2001
at Yerba Buena Herbal Consulting. You can read more about her at: www.yerbabuenaherbs.blogspot.com
