The Green Elephant: The Healthcare Provider's Essential Guide to Understanding and Addressing Medical Cannabis and CBD

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The Green Elephant is the comprehensive resource for healthcare providers and patients on the use of medical cannabis and CBD. Studies have suggested that while a majority of healthcare providers support medical cannabis, they feel under-educated on the matter. With over 3 million active medical cannabis patients in the US and growing, the need for more information is vital. Based on extensive research and medical expertise, The Green Elephant seeks to be the ultimate resource to help demystify cannabis-based therapy. The Green Elephant presents the history, biology, chemistry, and pharmacological effects of cannabis-based therapy. The book also presents the facts about cannabis in regard to ethics in practice, its legal history, and current regulatory status to enable healthcare professionals to better serve their patients.

Matthew Fogel, RN, FNP-C, is a full-time nurse practitioner and registered nurse and part of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. He graduated with his associate degree in nursing from Pima Medical Institute in 2011 and recently graduated with her masters as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Simmons University in Boston. He worked in the CVICU as an open-heart recovery nurse specializing in the care of patients who had just had bypass or heart valve surgery. As a fierce medical cannabis advocate, he wrote a petition to allow patients in New Mexico suffering from neurodegenerative diseases its use that was approved by the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board. He lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Fogel, RN, FNP-C, is a registered nurse. She graduated from Central New Mexico Community College with her associates in nursing in 2010 and recently graduated with her masters as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Simmons University in Boston. Elizabeth has spent most of her nursing career at the University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH), a level one trauma center in Albuquerque, NM. She has worked as a charge nurse in UNMH's rheumatology and pulmonary clinic, as well as a nurse in their pediatric intensive care units. She has also worked as a school nurse in Santa Fe and Bernalillo, NM. Elizabeth's focus is on patient autonomy and the importance of using all available medical research in the advancement of patient care. She currently lives in Albuquerque, NM with her husband, Matthew. Jean-Paul Dedam, MD, DABMA, is the in-patient physician at the Lovelace Heart Hospital of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He graduated with a B.A. in Biochemistry at Dartmouth and an MD through their medical school. He practiced Family Medicine in Lawrence, MA then worked 4 years in Indian Health Service as the primary care doctor. He is board certified in Medical Acupuncturist.

"Backed by extensive research and medical expertise, The Green Elephant is a comprehensive guidebook that is especially appropriate for healthcare professionals and non-specialist general readers looking to educate themselves on cannabis therapy to better provide guidance for patients and their families. It is especially well-written and thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation." -Midwest Book Review