Topics Include: Why smoking, vaporizing, edibles and topicals affect you differently, and how to combine forms to achieve the therapeutic relief you seek. (You’ll also come away with some easy recipes to try at home!)

1. Delivery Methods and Dosing:
Making the most of your medicine
Delivery Methods & Dosing:
Making the most of your
medicine
Presenter: Becky DeKeuster, M.Ed, Director of Education
Producer: Ben Gelassen, Marketing Associate

2. Delivery methods = how to get the
beneficial compounds from the plant
into our endocannabinoid system
Dosing (a.k.a. “titration”) = how much
cannabis in any one of its forms is
needed to achieve relief w/ minimal to
no unwanted side effects

3. Trichomes: Resinous glands that cover the surface of the cannabis flower and some leaves.
The trichomes contain most of the active compounds in the plant, though leaves without
trichomes still contain phytonutrients and can be healthful.
Source: www.medicalmarijuana.com
Source: forum.sensiseeds.com

4. Cannabinoids, Terpenes,
Flavonoids:
Chemical compounds in
cannabis which work alone and
in synergy to produce
therapeutic effects.
Their combined effect is often
called “the entourage effect.”
At left, some of the most-
studied cannabinoids.
Source: www.medicalmarijuana.com
Image source:
http://www.medicaljane.com/2013/11/19/cannabidiol-cbd-
makes-its-way-to-the-forefront/#

5. Cannabinoids, Terpenes, Flavonoids: Chemical compounds in cannabis which work
alone and in synergy to produce therapeutic effects.
Their combined effect is often called “the entourage effect.”
Below, some terpenes found in cannabis:
Source: www.medicalmarijuana.com
Recommended resource: http://cannabisdigest.ca/cannabis-terpene-synergy/

6. Delivery Methods and Dosing:
Making the most of your medicine
Delivery Methods

7. Recommended resource: http://palliatech.com/biology.html
Cannabinoids enter the bloodstream when inhaled,
ingested, or (in some cases) applied topically

8. Inhalation

9. Source: www.weedmaps.com
Source: www.medicinebowlcollective.org
Source: www.slate.com

10. Smoking cannabis appears not to cause lung, throat
and mouth cancers
Smoking cannabis appears not to impair
lung function
Recommended resources: http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/10/study-smoking-marijuana-not-linked-with-lung-
damage/ and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23802821
Smoke from burned cannabis is ~88% non-cannabinoid
Cannabis smoke contains carcinogens

11. Ingestion

12. Ingestion
How it enters the bloodstream/liver
Increased psychoactivity

13. Topical Applications: Balms, salves, creams,
transdermal patches

14. Topicals: LEAFLY VIDEO (2:10 min)
https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-
101/new-videos-alert-topicals-medical-
marijuana-dabbing-cannabis-quan

16. Pros & Cons for each method

17. Delivery Methods and Dosing:
Making the most of your medicine
Dosing

18. Dose: The minimum amount needed to
achieve a therapeutic benefit.

19. Self-titration: The act of a patient
determining the appropriate amount of
cannabis to relieve symptoms without
causing unwanted side effects.
Source: www.leafscience.com

20. Zero possibility of
fatal overdose

22. START LOW…
…GO SLOW!

23. Easy Cannabis Recipes

24. Delivery Methods and Dosing:
Making the most of your medicine
Thank you for your
time and attention!
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