While we usually talk about the business realm of cannabis here on CannaInsider, in this episode we’re going to take a deep dive into medical marijuana and how it’s being used to better the lives of an increasing number of patients - specifically children.  

Here to discuss this growing movement are Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, makers of the 2018 documentary Weed The People in which Abby and Ricki follow a number of families that are turning to cannabis to treat their cancer-stricken children.

In this episode, Abby and Ricki share the ways in which medical marijuana is beginning to save lives and why it’s essential we overcome the political and legislative obstacles inhibiting cannabis from joining commercial healthcare.  

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Key Takeways:

• Ricki and Abby’s backgrounds in film and what sparked their desire to create Weed The People
• Ways in which the traditional medical industry is lacking when it comes to children’s cancer treatment
• Abby and Ricki’s documentary The Business of Being Born and the parallels they observed between the business aspects of the birth and cancer industries
• The stigma surrounding cannabis in the medical sphere and how certain doctors are working to overcome it
• Medical cannabis in other countries versus the U.S.
• Why many of the families in Weed The People choose to follow a combination of chemo and a formal dosing schedule of cannabis to treat their children’s cancer
• Abby’s advice to parents interested in exploring medical cannabis to help treat their children and how they can do so right away

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