We have another “Audio Tour” episode for you this week, and we’re taking you inside of Inyo Fine Cannabis in Las Vegas, NV. Inyo Fine Cannabis is one of the first dispensaries to open in Nevada, as the state rolls out their medical marijuana market. David Goldwater shows us the ins and outs of the […]
Shauli Lev Ran elaborates on the benefits of increasing research methodologies: “If we’re talking about 4,000 people smoking daily, they may be smoking hundreds of different strains with very different combinations. And we’re kind of making conclusions or sometimes jumping to conclusions that it is associated with higher or lower levels of THC. But like […]
Dr. Einav Gati On the original Green Revolution: “It was like the ’30s to ’60s. They believed that we have to feed the world and to feed the world, we have to make sure that our crops are a high yield. To do that, they created the different crops of wheat, of corn- and so […]
Dr. Nehama Lewis joins us and reflects on how the media effects cannabis perception: “I would teach these classes on anti-drug campaigns and they would cover anti-marijuana campaigns and it never made sense to me why there wasn’t a distinction made.We collected data in several projects now. The questions I always ask is how does […]
Eitan Kuperstoch Joins us and talk about the importance of medical grade Cannabis and industrial growth. “This is a new sector. The export of medical grade will actually bring more and more entrepreneurs to this new sector with more and more ideas. It goes into new drugs and maybe even new medical equipment. I mean, […]
Professor Arnon Afek, on the ‘medicalization’ of cannabis “the most significant results we’ve seen in our clinical trial are the reduction of anxiety and violent outbursts.” A pathologist by profession. Professor Afek graduated from Hadassah Medical School and then served in the army as a medical officer. He was the head of the classification branch at […]
Prof. Mauro Maccarrone joins us and shares his decades-long history in cannabis research. “The first paper was, in fact, published in 1997. And since then, as a biochemist for education, I could contribute, over the years, a few methods to measure metabolic enzymes and also some receptor activity. And year by year, I did consolidate […]
On the actual clinical trial research being done on cannabis now, Prof. Dedi Meiri, “We are starting with para-clinical. We first screen on cell lines from tumors, many types of cannabis. We have an ability to screen a lot. We have over than 600 different types of cannabis, and every one of them have hundreds […]
On his awakening to the scientific value of cannabis, Ben Gurion University’s Zvi Bentwich, now also the Chief Scientist for Tikun Olam- “I know enough to say, or at least think, that there was a common denominator. The common denominator was the central nervous system. So, if this plant, or whatever it contains, has an […]
The Director of the Israeli Medical Cannabis Agency, Yuval Landschaft returns to give both me and you a tour of Israel’s cannabis economy. Yuval invited me to host Israel’s medical cannabis event and while in town, he shared the latest on research, the market and how exactly the medicalization of cannabis is happening in Israel…and […]