Medical Cannabis has been so stigmatized over the years. One of the few effective treatments for Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective phenotype of mental illness is, Therapeutic Medical Cannabis.
Prior to the war on drugs by President Richard Nixon, when he was trying to cover up the Watergate scandal, medical cannabis was used instead of Morphine for pain management. Today, medical cannabis is villified as the “gateway to illict drug use”.
Actually, medical cannabis is the “Oh, Oh, it’s magic” medicinal for behavioral health/mental health care. It has impressed me with it’s breadth of therapeutic effectiveness, and efficacy. I use it clinicallly, instead of Ozempic/Semaglutide drugs for weight loss, because, I can also treat the co-occurring behavioral health disorders, in tandem/simultaneously with Metabolic Syndrome. Therapeutic Medical Cannabis, is the best treatment for high blood pressure/hypertension, and high blood glucose/diabetes, secondary to improvement of the gut brain axis, cross talk, as well as, the hypothalamic-pituiatry-adrenal axis cross talk/communications.
In the future, mainly Therapeutic Medical Cannabis, and/or the Psychedelic medicinals will be first line therapeutics, as Psychiatric treatment modalities. Of note, there is intravenous/IV medical cannabis, which can be used in the field, in emergencies, when mental health crises are encountered.
It’s all hands on deck when it comes to the mental health crises in the United States, and the opioid epidemic in our youths. Behavioral Health Telemedicine in tandem with National Detoxification Acupuncture Association (NADA) protocol, and Battlefield with Trench Auricular Acupuncture protocols will revolutionalize behavioral health/mental health wellness/care nationally, as well as, globally.