Vital Conversation Cannabinoids with Eric Yarnell, ND

Which statement is true about heating Cannabis sativa before using it as medicine?

Which of the following is the best solvent (considering efficacy of extraction and safety) for making cannabis extracts?

Which of the following patients would be best served by using inhaled cannabis?

Which of the following patients would do best with chronic cannabis?

For which of the following patients is cannabis contraindicated?

Which of the following patients has been properly dosed with cannabis?

A 29-year-old who is smoking four non-standardized cannabis cigarettes a day.
A 39-year-old who is inhaling the equivalent of 100 mg of THC daily.
A 49-year-old who is ingesting 100 mg of CBD per day.
A 59-year-old, currently a heavy cannabis user, who is adding 2 mg of CBD and THC per day via oromucosal spray.

Patients with which of the following conditions respond best to cannabidiol (CBD) without any tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) present?

Which statement is true regarding terpenoids and Cannabis sativa?

They are irrevelent to determining the “strain” (chemotype), just the morphology of the plant matters.
They interefere with the cannabinoids, one of the reasons they are removed during extraction.
They almost certainly contribute useful medicinal actions to the plant.
There is nothing known about terpenoids and no real reason to suspect they are important.

Which of the following is true about interactions between cannabis and medications?

Cannabis is a confirmed CYP3A4 inhibitor at usual doses and so increases the toxicity of many drugs.
Cannabis is a confirmed CYP3A4 inducer at usual doses and so decreases the efficacy of many drugs.
Clinical trials have so far not found any significant interaction between cannabis and CYP3A4 substrate drugs.
There is no information available about cannabis and any pharmaceuticals.

Which of the following is true about Rick Simpson oil (“honey oil”)?

It is the best well-researched form of cannabis for oral use or for vaporization.
It interacts very poorly with many pharmaceuticals should it should be used carefully.
Due to a high frequency of allergies to this product, it has to be given with steroids.
There is essentially no research on this form and it likely contains residual butane.

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