Medical Marijuana: Understanding Cannabis as Medicine
A unique film addressing the increasing demand for unbiased information about medical cannabis use—orienting medical users, engaging clinicians, and expanding accessible scientific knowledge for all.
What this film is
Medical Marijuana: Understanding Cannabis as Medicine is a comprehensive documentary that orients the new medical user to the world of cannabis while engaging clinicians and expanding scientific information for all. Although documentaries exist on marijuana, the cannabis industry, and patient experiences for certain illnesses, none are as comprehensive as this film.
It provides an entertaining orientation with peeks into the medical cannabis scene: edibles being created, cannabis researchers, a grow-your-own patient, and a medical marijuana doctor. The documentary is narrated by a well-known guest celebrity.
Work-in-progress
The work-in-progress feature includes key medical cannabis researchers, clinicians, patients, and industry leaders—telling the contemporary story of medical cannabis in an inviting manner for people seeking medicinal value.
Increasingly, people use medical marijuana to complement, supplement, or provide an alternative to prescription medicines for illnesses including cancer treatment side effects, anxiety, MS, childhood epilepsy, glaucoma, PTSD, and more—helping over 2.5 million people nationally.
Why now
Decriminalization and rescheduling, rising mental health challenges, and broader awareness of cannabis as a medicinal option lead millions to experiment with plant medicine.
CANNABIS IS MEDICINE: THE FILM
Cannabis provides plant-based medicines that have no way to fit into our current medical system.
THC, CBD, CBN and CBG are cannabinoids that come from the plant with different attributes and medical potencies. Researchers internationally have established the plant’s value for a variety of ailments. But healthcare workers get no education on cannabis use while demand is at an all time high from patients.
What is the urgency for this film?
- It is urgent for people in chronic pain seeking relief.
- It is urgent for those who can’t sleep.
- It is urgent for those who are anxious and/or have PTSD. Nothing so far has worked for them.
- It is urgent for people with seizures from epilepsy, Parkinson’s, & M.S. who don’t know episodes can be dramatically decreased with cannabis.
- It is urgent for people addicted to opioids who don’t know cannabis can help wean them off painkillers without withdrawal.
- It is urgent for cancer patients with unbearable side effects that can find relief with cannabis.
CANNABIS IS MEDICINE reveals the personal journeys of patients, practitioners, and researchers who often have to defy laws, the medical establishment, false cultural beliefs, lack of education, and family prejudice. Patients using cannabis for health and advocating its use blaze their own trails.