25. Dosing Cannabis Medicine with Dustin Sulak, DO

We discuss dosing medical cannabis with Dr. Dustin Sulak. Dustin is an osteopathic general practitioner who focuses on treating patients with refractory conditions using an individualized, health-centered approach. Dr. Sulak is a founder of Integr8 Health, a medical practice in Maine that follows over 8,000 patients using medical cannabis, and cofounder of Healer.com, a medical cannabis education resource. Dustin has also participated in every CannMed Event since our first event in 2016. He serves on our CannMed Advisory Board, evaluating abstracts and helping select presenters, and he is an instructor on our full-day CannMed Medical Practicum.

Topics discussed include:

Why dosing medical cannabis is different from other therapeutics
The fact that cannabinoids can have biphasic and even triphasic effects
How a patient’s optimal dose can change over time, commonly going down
How patients commonly build a tolerance to the adverse effects of cannabis but not the benefits
The benefits of working with a trained medical provider to determine one’s optimal dose, but also strategies for how patients can find it on their own
How can cannabis be used for health promotion and disease prevention
How using a variety of cannabis cultivars and not sticking to just one strain can be beneficial for patients

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Additional Resources
Handbook of Cannabis Clinicians (https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393714180)
Society of Cannabis Clinicians (https://www.cannabisclinicians.org/)
Healer.com Dosage Program (https://healer.com/programs/)
CannMed 2019 Presentation – The Role of Cannabis in Integrative Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention – Dustin Sulak, DO (   • The Role of Cannabis in Integrative M...  )