Today's Medical PotCast Episode features our host Joseph (Joe) Friedman, R.Ph. MBA, is founding member and was a principal at Professional Dispensaries of Illinois, (PDI) Medical LLC. From the moment Illinois’ Medical Cannabis program was signed into law, he became deeply involved in the complex process of positioning himself as a medical expert on cannabis. 

Also participating in part 2 of the debate is Joseph Jeffries, RPh, is the Pharmacy Director of FARMACEUTICALRX, and was the President of the Ohio Pharmacists Association from 2000-2001 and holds a BS in Pharmacy from Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy. Mr. Jeffries has operated multiple retail pharmacies in southeastern Ohio, including Jeffries Drugs, Inc., for 13 years until it merged with an Ohio food chain. Following this merger, Mr. Jeffries was appointed Pharmacy Director over multiple pharmacies operated by this food chain in Ohio. Mr. Jeffries started and eventually sold a compounding pharmacy in St. Clairsville. Mr. Jeffries has been the Pharmacy Director for Barnesville Hospital System, in Belmont County, Ohio, for the past 15 years directing both institutional and retail pharmacy operations. The retail pharmacies at Barnesville fills more than 1000 prescriptions per week. Most recently, Mr. Jeffries coordinated and founded Addiction Services of Eastern Ohio (ASEO), a consortium of entities including Barnesville Hospital, the local Mental Health and Recovery Board, and Crossroads Counseling Services that provides medication assisted treatment and counseling services to opioid addicted patients. 

Bradley Carlson, PharmD is a Clinical Pharmacist, Cannabis Pharmacist.

Bradley Carlson attended Minnesota State University, Mankato and graduated in 2001 with a bachelor of science in microbiology and minor in chemistry. In 2009, he graduated with his doc-tor of pharmacy from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He completed his residency with an emphasis in emergency medicine at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids Minnesota. Brad pio-neered the emergency department pharmacy program at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park Minnesota and worked as an ER pharmacist for many years. In the fall of 2014, Brad joined LeafLine Labs, one of Minnesota’s two medical cannabis growers/extractors/distributors, to author its application and later launch its vertically-integrated program. Brad served as Chief Pharmacist and VP of Pharmacy Operations with LeafLine Labs from its beginnings, through the Minnesota state rollout of the medical cannabis program in July 2015 and into March 2016.

Brad continues to work as an ER pharmacist at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park Minnesota, and as a pharmacist consultant for PDI Medical (a medical cannabis clinic and dispensary) in Buffalo Grove Illinois.

David G. Evans, Senior Counsel, Cannabis Industry Educating Litigators, he is a graduate of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and Rutgers Law School. He was a Public Defender Trial Attorney and managed the New Jersey Intoxicated Driving Program. He was on the faculty of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

PART ONE of the DEBATE: 

https://omny.fm/shows/pharmacy-podcast-network/the-medical-cannabis-debate-part-1-ppn-episode-910 

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