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TSC Talks guests Sherri Tuktus and Mark Worster fill us in on how Green Nurses turn the tables on some of the aspects of the top-heavy traditional healthcare model and seek to empower the patient with education, empowering them to ask questions and engage with the curriculum instead of being handed a prescription and sent out the door.

Sherri is the Founder, CEO, and Executive Director at GreenNurse Group, Member of International Association of Psychedelic Nursing, Director of Nursing (DON) at Irie Bliss Wellness, Founding Member at Cannabis Nurses Network, and member at American Cannabis Nurses Association. Sherri is a cannabis nurse, patient, and advocate. She earned her Bachelors in Science and Nursing from Boston College. She is a highly skilled Registered Nurse with 30 years of practical experience in various departments within the hospital and home setting.

She is utilizing her expert nursing skills as a medical center specialist, clinical nurse liaison and educator to bridge the gap between patients and the cannabis community. Sherri has been educating and implementing holistic integrative healing modalities within her practice for over 20 years.

She educates on the endocannabinoid system and the safe utilization of cannabis at dispensaries, hospitals, clinics, patients' homes, and she regularly does pop up events and expos.

Nurse Mark is an entrepreneur, leader, fitness guru, business/life coach, healthcare professional, and author of Absolutely F**king Amazing: Living a Life You Love, an Amazon #1 Best Seller. He is a Registered Nurse licensed in Massachusetts and New York. In 2017, he began his cannabis education – studying how to utilize it as a tool to create a happier, less stressed, pain-free life and completed in-depth training to become a Cannabis Nurse, which has allowed him to do work that he loves: Showing folks how to use this amazing plant to create powerful lives.

Nurse Mark has a personal experience with medical cannabis. He’s dealt with lifelong, medication-resistant depression and mood disorder. He’s been through the mental health system, explored all the pathways to health and happiness, and have successfully created a daily regimen designed to relieve his depression and allow for the creation of the greatest, joy-filled life ever.

He states, “I truly believe that you can do anything you want to do. The power lies in choice – choosing what you want and then getting into action.”

What is a Green Nurse- With Sherri Tutkus and Mark Worster

Intro to Sherri and Mark- 4:05

Mark’s Background- 5:17

Wanting to create a positive, meaningful impact- 5:40

How he got into Cannabis- 6:20

From a Cannabis Agnostic to a Green Nurse- 7:29

Sherri’s Background- 9:18

Founded the Green Nurse Group After Founding Out How Cannabis Worked for Her- 10:30

Co-Founders of the Green Nurse Platform- 11:17

Patient Empowerment- 14:18

Qualifications and Certifications to Become a Green Nurse- 15:26

What a Person Should do When Interested in Using Cannabinoid Medicine- 17:34

An Experience that Stands Out- 20:47

What Supports the Endocannabinoid System- 27:30

The 12th System- 36:36

Green Nurse Jody- 39:54

Impact and Adaptation to COVID-19- 42:28

Inspiration, Growth, and Healing- 44:32

Contact and Links:

Sherri Tutkus

Websites-
IrieBliss.com
MyGreenNurse.com
TheGreenNurses.com
GreenNurseRadioShow.com
GreenNurseGroup.com
Sherripics.com
Instagram- the_greennurse/
Facebook- GreenNurseSherri/
LinkedIn- /in/stutkusherri

Green Nurse Group

Email- [email protected]
Websites- https://greennursegroup.com/
Facebook- GreenNurseGroup/
Twitter- /Green_Nurses
Instagram- /greennursegroup/

Mark Worster

Email- [email protected]
Website- https://nursemark.co/
Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nursemark/id1459301823
Facebook- /nursemark
Twitter- @markworster
Instagram- /nursemarkw/
LinkedIn- /in/markworster/

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Thanks for listening! It was a pleasure to interview "Nurse Bonnie". Bonnie Drake, BSN/CRT, Member of the American Cannabis Nurses Association, CBD/HEMP Advocate is a Green Nurse with an extensive history and medical past with a background in nursing herself. She was introduced to CBD when her service dog started suffering from arthritis and Cardiomyopathy. From the exceptional results, she wondered what else CBD could do and started to research for her own physical conditions. Which is when she ran into Mike Robinson and his compassion care program.

CBD allowed Bonnie to become Opioid free within six months after ten years of “Prescribed Addiction,” allowed her to walk on fractured and dislocated great toe for three weeks without pain, and allowed her to endure a three-hour surgical procedure without anesthesia or nerve block. Overall, Bonnie says, “Gives me energy and helps me live my life helping others.” She is another Forest Bather enthusiast who has encountered the magnificent benefits with the improvement of quality of life that cannabis products provide.

Topics Discussed:

Intro to Bonnie- 00:49

Congenital Scoliosis- 5:18

Extensive Results on an MRI- 6:00

A Motivational Therapy Puppy- 6:19

Introduced to CBD for Dogs- 9:47

Immediate Reaction from CBD- 12:04

Research Time! 12:52

Melted the Pain With the First Dose- 13:08

A Heart Attack- 13:47

Motivation for Doing Compassion Care- 16:02

Patients' Testimonials- 17:47

Interactions Between CBD and Medications- 22:38

Being Active- 24:49

From 68 to 40- 30:42

Your Skin is the Largest Organ on your Body- 34:44

“Dr. Slam the Door”- 35:29

Awakening in her Soul- 41:42

Links:

https://cannabisevangelists.com/

https://puresciencelab.news/

https://www.hillsdale.net/news/20190220/local-woman-shares-benefits-of-products
Topics Discussed:

Intro to Bonnie- 00:49

Congenital Scoliosis- 5:18

Extensive Results on an MRI- 6:00

A Motivational Therapy Puppy- 6:19

Introduced to CBD for Dogs- 9:47

Immediate Reaction from CBD- 12:04

Research Time! 12:52

Melted the Pain With the First Dose- 13:08

A Heart Attack- 13:47

Motivation for Doing Compassion Care- 16:02

Patients' Testimonials- 17:47

Interactions Between CBD and Medications- 22:38

Being Active- 24:49

From 68 to 40- 30:42

Your Skin is the Largest Organ on your Body- 34:44

“Dr. Slam the Door”- 35:29

Awakening in her Soul- 41:42

Links:

https://cannabisevangelists.com/

https://puresciencelab.news/

https://www.hillsdale.net/news/20190220/local-woman-shares-benefits-of-products

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Green Nurses ARE the bridge between alternative and traditional medicine and have helped transform and provide legitimacy and respect for cannabis as medicine and other alternative options as well! We are grateful for collaboration and support on this content arc from Sherri Tutkus of GreenNurse Group. For our first episode in this series, we've compiled a retrospective from past Green Nurse podcast guests giving a brief narrative on why they became a green nurse. This episode includes Marissa Fratoni of Holistic Nurse Mama, Janna Champagne of Integrated Holistic Care, Sherri Tutkus of Green Nurse Group, and Dedee Culley of 2 Leaf Nurses.

Marissa Fratoni: Nurse, blogger, freelance writer at Holistic Nurse Mama, and Registered Yoga Teacher at Central Mass Yoga And Wellness. She is a wealth of information and insight on cannabinoid therapeutics holistic medicine and integrative health.

Marissa Fratoni’s Background Story: 7:38

Visiting Nursing: 8:34

How She Got Into Cannabis: 9:16

Another Perception of the Plant, Seeing Miraculous Changes: 9:58

Cannabis helps Detox from Addiction: 10:50

Full Podcast Episode with Marissa Fratoni: https://tsctalks.com/tsc-talks-guest-marissa-fratoni/
https://holisticnursemama.blog/

Janna Champagne- Founder at Integrated Holistic Care. Janna’s introduction to the cannabis industry began as a cannabis patient when she suffered a health collapse in 2012. She credits cannabis for helping to reduce her reliance on harmful pharmaceuticals, and for supporting her ability to regain optimal health status. Janna is also known for her daughter’s cannabis/Autism success story, which published on the cover story in a nationwide industry magazine in 2017.

Cannabis Helped Her Daughter: 14:06

Cumulative Long-Term Impact of Pharmaceuticals: 14:53

The Mental Health Industry- Wild West: 16:53

Pharmaceuticals Side Effects: 18:29

Risk VS. Benefit: 19:45

Reversals of Dementia, Improved Behavior in Autism, Improved Function, and Quality of life: 20:06

Gut and Brain Connection: 20:42

Pharmaceutical Driven: 21:21

Full Podcast Episode with Janna Champagne: https://tsctalks.com/tsc-talks-guest-jenna-champagne/
https://jannachampagne.com/

Sherri Tuktus- Sherri Tutkus is the founder and CEO of GreenNurse Group, Nursing Director at Irie Bliss Wellness and host of GreenNurse on the Go Radio Show. Sherri is a cannabis nurse, patient and advocate. She earned her Bachelor's in Science and Nursing from Boston College. She is highly skilled Registered Nurse with 30 years’ practical experience in various departments within the hospital and home setting. She is utilizing her expert nursing skills as a medical center specialist, clinical nurse liaison and educator to bridge the gap between patients and the cannabis community. Sherri has been educating and implementing holistic integrative healing modalities within her practice for over 20 years. She educates on the endocannabinoid system and the safe utilization of cannabis at dispensaries, hospitals, clinics, patients' homes and she regularly does pop up events, seminars and expos. Sherri is an international speaker and she has contributed to the writing of the first cannabis nursing textbook with her cannabis nurse colleagues that will be available in nursing schools across the country. Sherri is a member of the American Cannabis Nurses Association and founding member of The Cannabis Nurses Network and was nominated as one of two nurses for “Health Professional of the Year” for the 2020 New England Cannabis Convention. Sherri brings passion and purpose to her work teaching bio-psycho-social-spiritual healing using cannabis as a tool.

Background History- Pseudomembranous Colitis: 21:55

From Being a Nurse to Being a Patient: 24:00

Polypharmacy Journey: 25:34

Medical and Pharmaceutical Trauma: 27:04

Drain of Despair: 29:02

Cannabinoid Therapeutics Comes to the Rescue: 29:49

Full Podcast Episode with Sherri Tuktus: https://tsctalks.com/sherri-tutkus-2/
https://greennursegroup.com/

Dedee Culley: Has over 20 years of nursing experience and is the co-owner of 2 Leaf Nurses, which provides alternative & holistic health services from Springfield, Missouri. Culley loves home health for its opportunity to connect with patients and their environment. She is incredibly blessed and she was able to gather up courage and strength to pursue her passion in nursing while stepping out of the ordinary medicinal ways of these modern days and encourage others to be safe and successful at taking care of their bodies from the inside out with natural approaches. She has a loving attitude and an open mind to seek and research various holistic methods to reach a significantly positive result. She has also dealt with personal health issues within her family and has seen significant changes when she chooses to ask questions and be in the loop of the available options and their side effects.

Background History: 30:22

First Time Questioning Medicine: 30:53

Don’t Apologize for Questioning: 34:27

Got Into Nursing: 35:06

Home Heath: 37:00

Full Podcast with Dedee Culley: https://tsctalks.com/podcast/show-notes/tsc-talks-guest-dedee-culley/
https://www.2leafnurses.com/

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I got the chance to interview Chris Chambers recently. I saw him on a video Mike Robinson posted during the 100, 000, 000 million mg CBD giveaway and was impressed with his story. In our first conversation, (of which it took 3 to get this audio! :)), Chris mentioned being a Quaker. I immediately felt a connection as my own father was immersed in this philosophy/denomination towards the end of his life and the tenets of kindness and value in every human being despite any external circumstances were a huge part of his mantra. The same can be said for Chris, which you will hear echoed throughout this episode.

Chris Chambers is a generous, humble, living piece of art! He gave us details on his life since his early childhood, through his experiences in the army, and through many rough patches that he’s been through. He truly has shocking experiences, and now he is happy to be breathing and being able to do good to this world. A truly humble human being that can be considered a living miracle.

He has an extensive resume which includes Sr. Chief Operations Director at VAONC, business owner at Aqua Business Development, Sr. Vice Commander at LifeCall MediAlert Inc., former Superior & Federal Court Officer at County Legal Services of Santa Clara County, former President/CEO at Top Priority Solutions, founder of The Water Chamber, and studied Computer Science and Technology.

Here’s a blog about Chris Chambers written by Mike Robinson: Purple Heart Recipient Chris Chambers Talks Cannabis and Veterans- Wounded Physically In A Brutal War & Fighting A System That Refuses To Properly Help P.T.S.D., Cannabis Is His Medicine To Set His Mind At Ease:

Early family History and Civil Air Patrol at Age 14 [0:33]
Army [2:41]
Unwelcomed Back [4:45]
Unwelcomed Home [5:54]
Remorse Wanted him Dead [6:38}
Abducted [10:43]
His Journey Taught him to be a Humanitarian [16:00]
New Beginning [16:26]
Proposed a Bill to Congress [17:35]
Saving Thousands of Lives each Month with “Life Call- Life Alert- Lifeline” [18:34]
The Water Chamber [20:12]
100% Disability for Extreme PTSD [29:21]
64 Pills a Day vs. Cannabis [29:59]
From Federal Officer to Truck Driver [31:51]
Another Crumbling Accident [34:28]
Cannabis Led him to Mr. Peron [36:01]
Cannabis Regrowing Bone Marrow [36:18]
A Living Piece of Art [37:27]
Cannabis’ Continuing Impact [38:23]

Chris's Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrischambers07
The Dab Station: https://www.facebook.com/thedabstation/
Vet Meds Matter: https://www.facebook.com/VetMedsMatter/

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By now, many of you know Mike Robinson, the founder of the Global Cannabinoid Research Center, TSC Talks’ Director of Research and Development, and among many other titles, he is also the formulator of various topicals and cannabinoid products which help thousands of people through an extensive and impressive compassion care project.

Last week Mike shared some of his thoughts on the advancements in the cannabinoid medicine and gave the public an update about the different things that are currently going on, including his corporations, AMA certified endocannabinoid courses through the Global Cannabinoid Research Center, and a successful press release about his story and transition “From Compassion Care to Cannabis Philanthropy”

Wondering what Mike is going through right now? Here are some thoughts:

“I wanted to talk about so many advancements in cannabinoid medicine, as we're still giving away compassion products. We've got capsules, we've got tinctures, and still custom blending some stuff for people that seriously need it. We've got all kinds of activity going on.”

“In the last couple of days, a press release was published in over 100 newspapers. In order to see the new compassion drive, we've got to create it. And the only way to create a new compassion is through philanthropy. It's not going to happen the way it used to.”

“Through this giveaway, over 12,000 products have left my home. My hands have been on every single box that was made here. I've talked to every single person, or Anne Mari has, but that type of compassion is over.”

“This giveaway was a way to bring back to light attention to people what it was like, back in the days of compassion, back in the days where we just wrote on bottles and gave away things, and helped people everywhere. Now, things have changed.”

Mike expresses the struggle of keeping up with such an amazing program that not only brings joy to others, but also to himself, knowing that he is helping so many people as so many share gratitude for his continuous effort. Mike also talks about his corporations and how they all come together, to fund the Carousel Challenge, and the compassion program:

“How are we going to fund compassion? How possibly can one guy fill 12,000 boxes every three months and make sure people have that? That won't work! The only thing we can do is fund corporations. So what you're going to find is you've got Nanobles incorporated with my partner in the Bay Area, working hard right now with the prototypes that were created a couple of months ago, looking for investors for that Corporation, which is also set up to fund the Carousel Challenge. Relaxation Revolution is also set up to fund the Carousel Challenge. Genevieve’s Dream incorporated is pushing forward, getting investment funds, also set up to fund the Carousel Challenge, which builds a $12.5 million Developmental Center for kids and adults with developmental delays with funds from cannabis oils. Now, isn't that compassion? To create corporations that fund what our kids need and young adults need with developmental delays and making it an amusement park so you and I can go and have fun at the place and watch a bunch of smiling faces, because we need to smile. And one thing for sure, people with developmental delays are a lot happier than most of us.”

Among his hands-on skills, Mike has the ability to pass on his knowledge with AMA Certified Courses that can be found at the Global Cannabinoid Research Center website. Dr. Perry Solomon states that “This course sets the standards for quality education materials regarding the endocannabinoid system and cannabis.”

Here Mike expresses the importance of these courses:

“I've got multiple different things I'm working on right now, including some investigative medicine with the universities. I'm starting to pair up with some different researchers to change the face of medicine and that's what we're looking to do. I was approached and asked if I would like to help...

TSC Talks guest Patrick Spencer is a 21-year-old from South London, and a new podcaster. After chatting a bit through Instagram, Jill thought it would be fun to bring in a younger generation and have an open conversation about his views and struggles. Patrick is Creator, Producer and Host of Open Podcast 2020. He is an elevator engineer, past football player, enjoys writing his own songs. He also happens to have recently ventured into podcasting with the launch of Open Podcast 2020,

"I've always had a very closed mindset, a very narrow mind. And it's always sort of kept me in the dark on a lot of things. And I've never really opened myself up to that looking at the world and problems and stuff like that. And recently, I've been through a little bit of personal stuff, and it sort of opened my mind up a little bit more to, to sort of see and seeing the bigger issues and obviously we've the Black Lives Matter movement has happened as well. And it's just all over my mind, a lot of other stuff as well. And yeah, sort of what I was going through had me feeling terrible. I was feeling really down. And I thought you know what, I know there's so many other people in the world who feel like this and feel worse than this and if there's something I can do to help one of them maybe then that that'd be really good, even if I don't know about it. So that's what it was. It wasn't anything specific. It was just a sort of a whole collection of things that that put me in this position."

Patrick gives us a little bit of his background, gets up close and personal about his struggles, his personal life, and introduces us to his podcast channel called The Open Podcast. The Open Podcast features various types of guests, with various backgrounds, and various life experiences to share with the world about the good that they are doing and about mutual interests to Patrick himself and his public.

Topics Discussed

Intro [0:30]

Make the world a better place! [1:16]

Profession [4:47}

COVID Lockdown in London [6:16]

The Open Podcast Guests [9:47]

The Transition from Engineer/songwriter/soccer player to Podcaster [11:21]

From Relationships to Overcoming a Rough Patch [15:13]

More on The Open Podcast [24:11] 

Learning from Guests [25:46]

Channeling Emotions into Something Positive [26:30]

Different Points of View are Valid! [28:01]

Closings [30:05]

Links to Patrick Spencer- The Open Podcast

https://www.instagram.com/openpodcast2020/

You can find Patrick's podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6dALX3qCzXiY_2MeeInFMA

Check out our new website: https://thesourcecannabinoids.com
Our main podcast site is still https://tsctalks.com

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Roberto Paleco joined us in our “virtual land” to discuss his amazing journey and career as a Medical Researcher/Scientist, Entrepreneur, from Australia, Italian born. He started a company to do research and clinical trials "for hire" to bridge the gap in the Australian medical cannabis industry. Roberto has a passion for nature and chemistry. After years of studying and working in the field as a medical researcher, Roberto decided to work on medical cannabis research entirely, which led him to create ResearchCan. He has a passion for natural medicine, mind-body connection, and chemistry of the body, which made him study different diseases and therapies. He understands that there are people who are suffering and dying that could be helped in different, but simple, ways than the pharma norm.

Roberto mentions the gastrointestinal microbiome. It's something that I just learned about in probably the last five or six years. As someone who was on a bunch of pharmaceuticals, the impact on the gastrointestinal system was significant. And the mind-body connection, I think that's something that while it's taught, it's becoming more prevalent. People are understanding the microbiome and the gut that connects gut/brain connection.

He developed ResearchCan to make a difference. He mentions it was a hard decision to step out and expose his research, but he also acknowledges that he needs to show the public what he is discovering. Roberto stated that, “We understood the necessity of providing medical cannabis industries with the technology to develop products using pharmaceutical enhancement and medical devices.”

Roberto has an extensive and interesting journey in this field. He explained:
“My passion for natural medicine started during my university studies, where I had obtained the medical and pharmaceutical knowledge to create drugs and the understanding of drug interaction with the human body. As a scientist, I always found the chemistry of the body and the pharmaceutical technologies fascinating. In my career, I studied different diseases and therapies to have a bigger vision of medical treatments. I studied topic formulation to treat skin cancer in Ireland. I moved to Sydney to become an expert on inhalation and nasal administration for respiratory conditions. I have participated in a clinical trial in collaboration with UTS, where I remained fascinated by the connection mind-body studying gastrointestinal conditions. In all of these apparently unrelated conditions and others in my advice, medical cannabis can be used as primary therapy or as a combination to help unavailable and sometimes inefficient conventional treatments.”

“I’ve been aware of the potential of medical cannabis for a long time, and I always tried in my career in Academia to make people understand it. However, nowadays, the barrier is still strong. In the years, I saw people suffering and even die from pathologies that could be treated with this plant. Finally, the world looks like realigning about the use of medical cannabis and I hope one day Australia will lead to this change.”

“My personal experience is that the Academia here is not ready for this change and my advice is that medical cannabis companies should invest money in research and developing medical products privately and directly as pharmaceutical companies always did. Australian universities have incredible laboratories and scientists, but at the moment, there are not sufficient government grants to develop cannabis research within the University, and the old bureaucracy around the intellectual property is discouraging the cannabis industry to invest in research. Besides this limitation, there is here in Australia, a market and a business interest in terms of investment and capability. Government legislation around cannabis prohibition is fast-changing, so I think that with a different approach, we can make the difference.”

Roberto explained the development and creation of ResearchCan:
“I created ResearchCan with a group of friends, all experts on formulation development and almost ten years of experience as medical researchers. We understood the necessity of providing medical cannabis industries with the technology to develop products using pharmaceutical enhancement and medical devices. I decided to create an independent group of scientists to detach our company and research from university bureaucracy and pharmaceutical company control, to be able to deliver cost-worthy research and the access to medical technologies to medical cannabis companies. We hope to become the pharmaceutical research and development partner of a medical cannabis company that has our same vision of this unique opportunity.”

“Our vision is to use medical chosen extracts more efficiently delivered to better target conditions using medical products. Having pharmaceutical formulations to deliver cannabis extracts using different administration pathways can increase the use of medical cannabis. The use of available pharmaceutical technologies will allow the reduction of active ingredients required and a real reduction of the therapy cost, improving the bioavailability and efficacy of the drug. Reducing the cost and creating products with high patient compliance is the key to deliver this medicine and to speed up the change in the legislation that is happening worldwide driven by many patients.”

He also has a vision for the future! He states the following:
“Nowadays, we have access to the technology to prove cannabis’ medical efficacy and to create the pharmaceutical products that the market need. The use of in vitro analysis can help to choose appropriate extracts to be used to treat specific diseases and conditions. The in vitro analyses are used to develop a treatment for specific cancer types, to develop a formulation to access the brain efficiently to treat epilepsy seizures and to test cannabis for the treatment of chronic inflammation diseases efficiently. The use of in vitro analysis can help to choose appropriate extracts to be used to treat specific diseases and conditions. The in vitro analyses are used to develop a treatment for specific cancer types, to develop a formulation to access the brain efficiently to treat epilepsy seizures and to test cannabis for the treatment of chronic inflammation diseases efficiently. Furthermore, getting scientific proofs and creating medical formulations is essential to help health professionals to prescribe medical cannabis more safely and efficaciously, opening future access to more diseases. As a group of experts in pharmaceutical formulation delivery, we have been developing prototypes for a nebulizer, a nasal spray formulation and a fast-dissolving sublingual tablet to administer the cannabis extract in different dosages and to better access specific targets. Our plan is to create the knowledge and products needed to give millions of patients an alternative that they need.”

One important aspect mentioned by Roberto is that these prototypes are not standard medical formulations, and that is because it needs to be unique for each individual, their different needs, and the individual’s specific body aspects.

Links to Roberto Paleco:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-paleco-66139417a/
https://www.researchcan.com/

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This is the audio of a live video posted by Mike Robinson, Founder, Global Cannabinoid Research Center with some important information and updates on the compassion program, and packages Mike has recently mailed out. If you or someone you love is in need of cannabinoid medicine, please go to: https://whosneedinghelp.com!

" I'd do a live video because a lot of people are getting all of these different things in the mail, you know, these different compassion packages and some of you are wondering, Hey, what did I get from you, Mike?"

Mike explains the items contained within the packages and gives detailed explanations on how to apply, for topicals, dosage for those receiving oils and elaborates on the cannabinoids contained within each product. He also discusses nanotechnology, which was used in some of these formulations and talks about new products he's developing as well.

He tips his had to Dennis Peron, Founding Father of Proposition 215, allowing for the medical use of marijuana for the first time since prohibition! From a blog on https://mikesmedicines.com:

"With the loss of so many close to him, Peron was distraught and desirous of providing compassionate use of cannabis to all that were in need. So in 1991, Peron organized efforts and gained the passage of the famed yet little known about San Francisco’s Proposition P, a resolution calling on the state government to permit medical cannabis, which received 79% of the vote. That same year, he co-founded the San Francisco Buyers Club, the first public dispensary of legal cannabis, per the local resolution, since Prohibition. His story is endless, but the two of these legends had previous encounters before the gathering of compassionate minds that wrote the one page ‘Compassionate Use Act’ of 1996. Back In 1993, Peron and Brownie Mary published a cookbook with recipes for cannabis edibles.

The Union of Peron and Brownie Mary (and the 215 Team)

All of this had a fire burning within Peron, he and Rathburn had history along with a dozen that were assembled to draft and gain the signatures to put the well known 1996 Proposition 215 on the ballot – but most had doubts a law allowing people t smoke and use cannabis would pass. – but it did. This allowed for the medicinal use of cannabis for the first time since prohibition and started what we all know as the industry of today. Many would debate other actions in other states helped – and that wouldn’t be out of the ballpark. But, without out a doubt the fire under Peron and company has changed the world. Many are unaware that then attorney general of California Dan Lungren ordered a raid of Peron’s Dispensary the night before the law passed which closed down the Buyers Club – but not for long as once 215 passed it reopened where Peron and company helped out crowds of his friends which eventually created a network of compassion."

So if you've received a compassion package or are interested in receiving one, please give this podcast a listen!

Mike Robinson's links:

https://whosneedinghelp.com-COMPASSION LINK

https://mikesmedicines.com

https://genevievesdream.com

https://globalcannabinoidrc.com

https://carouselchallenge.com

Danielle, (Dani) McQueen, is a true champion in the cannabis world, business owner, who has been nominated with Best Cannabis Company of the Year, Maine Cannabis Activist, Business Leader of the Year, Champion in Corrupt Responsibility, Best Innovation: Hot Cocoa, and Young Entrepreneur of the Year. While that, she is also a mother of a special superhero little girl that suffers from the same autoimmune disease as she does. Danielle demonstrates her rough path but also her strength to follow her instincts, and as every human being, with doubts and uncertainty but reaches an amazing lifestyle for her family while also helping other families. She shares a story of overcome but also the real struggle as a person who suffers from Ankylosing Spondylitis. Danielle just really uprooted herself and moved to Maine to help her child and herself. I’m just very impressed with what I've learned so far. Danielle shares her story timeline with us on the next few quotes.

“I always knew I wanted to help people. At an early age, I also knew something was wrong with me too. I had gotten into a little bit of trouble at school. I love the gymnastics part in flipping and I thought I could do this. But I also started to realize that I was getting pains, you know, and everyone kind of chalked it up until I was probably around 16, when it really started to affect me. By 17 years old I started, you know, I've seen every doctor. I've been diagnosed with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, to everything. So, being diagnosed with so many diagnoses, it’s just because it was kind of unknown. It was a little by 18 when they had known that it was Ankylosing Spondylitis and I was put on oxycodone.”
“This next month, I'll be going into my third surgery, they'll be doing a full fusion from the cervix down. Just because I've had so many slipped discs and fractures that are kind of just deteriorating. So I'm a little nervous.”
“Every time something like this happens I think of my daughter, what her future might look like. Because like I was saying, when I was a teenager, they put me on oxycodone and it helps, of course. Back then, these drugs were just coming to market. These doctors were taught by the pharmaceuticals that these were lifesavers or they were for some people, I'm not denying that fact. But for me, being so young, I probably shouldn't have been put on oxycodone. Over time, it stopped helping. And at this point, I was in college and I was going to school to be a nurse and now at this time, after oxycodone, I'm put on the fentanyl patch and this I'm usingwith the oxycodone. The fentanyl patch and the oxycodone. So now I'm in school and I'm learning in the medical world. And I start to learn that maybe I shouldn't be on these doses. Maybe I shouldn't be on these medications. Maybe it's okay to question the doctors.”
“I was a manager of a Suboxone clinic a few years ago, and I thought to myself, I was no different than these people, except they went to get their drugs from the street; I just had to go to my doctor. She'd write me a prescription and I'd be on my way. I mean, there was no difference to me.”
“I just felt something was wrong. I feel really guilty saying this. One time I'd walked into my doctor's office to get a prescription. There were a lot of people in police uniforms and there are people carrying boxes and the nurse was really sneaky about getting me into a room. I don't remember seeing the doctor that day. I just saw my prescription. And I was in a haze. I feel like from 18 to 22 I literally feel like I don't recall a lot of how I managed to graduate school and do the things I did in that time period, still amazing to me. But that next day I read in the newspaper that my doctor was under investigation for overprescribing narcotics. There were a lot of overdoses in our town at that time. And this doctor was connected to them. Well, next thing I know I'm being called by the board of medicine because my medical records have been found outside of her office being disposed of. So now I'm caught in this, ‘I'm addicted to drugs. who's going to supply my drugs now. This is so embarrassing. It's in the newspaper. I'm in the medical field.’ I went through this stage of full-blown depression, I didn't know what to do on my bed. Thankfully, it was a time of my life- life has given back to me because I had no choice other than to either go to the streets and become a drug addict or detox. And I don't recommend detoxing at home, but I was too ashamed to go to the same hospital I worked in. And so I detox at home. The worst 14 days of my life. Pain I never felt, sickness and things I've never felt before, and I wouldn't want to ever again. I think that's why I've stayed off of narcotics because that feeling I remember of coming off of them. On day 15 I remember my younger brother offering me a joint and I was mortified. I was like, whoa, how dare you!”
Yeah, the recovery movement. They really were not very pro-cannabis. In fact, I dropped out because they weren't. I was in an addiction. I was going back to school to become an addiction counselor and they passed around this magazine with marijuana on the front of it like it was the worse thing, and I was sitting there and I had just started using. I felt so guilty and it was helping me and I was getting off meds and I was like, I can't do this. I can't get off.
“I get it. I was mortified. And then you know what, I did it because what was the other option? I was so sick, I was so sick, and all of a sudden I feel better, and how do we get more of this stuff? You know? So here I am. I work at the hospital. I'm using my younger brother to go buy me marijuana, you know, like, mortifying, but then I started to realize this is going to help. This is going to be the thing that helps me. And it started to help me and then I started to want to help other people. I got a job at a Suboxone clinic and I wanted to help people. I just thought that I could save the world. Then I started to realize I'm drug testing these patients. They are coming back positive for THC and the doc says, ‘that's okay, Danny. No big deal. They come back something else that's a problem.’ And I'm thinking why is this not legal? Why aren't we just using it? Why can't we give them weed because here I am… I'm smoking cannabis every day. It's helping me stay clean, function with my disease, I'm treating these patients, and I'm hiding the fact that I probably smell like it. They thought it was them. It's me the whole time.”
“Then you know what I got pregnant and there was no more I could hide it. There was no more of ‘I had to be quiet about it’ because Harley Rose, in 2015, early on, started to show symptoms of something and nobody knew what it was. But one day I went into her crib, she was stiff as a board. I picked her up and she was very hard, and her joints were very red and she had a fever of 102 and I knew right at that moment that I had genetically passed down something to her. It was the worst day of my life. I just thought everything was like flashing. Everything I had gone through and I blamed… I blame myself. Her pediatrician was great. Quickly after the test they found out she had A.S. And right then it was like a whiplash.”
“I was very angry at this point, more at myself. I think Because I just felt like this is all my fault. I gave this to her my child's gonna have to endure all the same things I have. So I was very scared and then like I said it was like a slide. they just wanted ‘Let's do this. Let's do that.’ And I said ‘let's do none of it! What can I do herbally?”
“The doctors were not supportive of anything alternative. And about a week went by from the diagnosis and I was sitting, probably on a Friday and watching her and her body, she just hurt. You could tell, and I didn't know what to do. And I had a prescription for pain medication and I was holding it and I just knew, I just knew I couldn't do it. And within days, you know, we had quit our jobs. We had packed our home up and we had found a place in West Baldwin, Maine. And we didn't have any jobs here. We didn't have anything, only the hopes that somebody was going to help my daughter. And we left. We met Dr. Dustin.”
“I probably sounded like a lunatic. You know, I just said ‘please, I know you're not accepting new patients. I need you to help.’ And within probably 24 hours, 48 hours, there was a callback. We had an appointment within days. We went in and I was terrified because still at this point didn’t want to give her the cannabis. I don't know. I thought maybe this guy was just going to be able to give her an herbal. I don't know what I thought. Honestly, I don't know what I was doing or what I thought. I was so scared. He was so wonderful. He was like this white light come over us and we started her on cannabis and she started to do things you've never done before. I'll never forget the day she took off running, jumped on the arm of the couch and Ninja flips.”
“And I thought, ‘do it again!’ My sisters would look at me and give me that look like ‘you shouldn't be letting your baby do that.’ But I did I let her do things that maybe you shouldn't have done.”
“I thought, maybe she’d been trapped, you know. So at that moment, the stigma for myself, you know, here I was, it was helping me but I still was scared to give it to my child. Then I gave it to her. She's remarkable.”
“That's when it was like, game on, world! Because if I'm doing everything, teach me how to grow, teach me how to grow cannabis, teach me how to do everything about cannabis.”
“And then I started to help one mom, and then that started to be two moms. And then it just really grew. And I never connected my business name with who I was as a mom helping these women." (read the full blog on our website: https://tsctalks.com)
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This is the full-length audio recording of our TSC Talks hosted, Facebook Live conversation on this topic. Brooke Alisha is an adult and parent living with TSC and Jill Woodworth, the host of TSC Talks, is a parent to several offspring living with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. They are talking about the extreme behavioral and mental health challenges of TSC and similar conditions that include a neuropsychiatric component. The weight on the family and ripple effect on relationships can be devastating. Managing care across a lifetime requires exceptional measures of coordination and communication for which parents/families are not prepared. The individual and/or parent/caregiver becomes quite knowledgeable but is put in positions no individual, parent or family should be in making high-level medical decisions on a daily basis in crisis laden situations. Our systems of care have become akin to a "Tower of Babel" and TSC care often exposes these broken and siloed systems. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex is a genetic condition that causes benign tumors to grow in different organs of the body.

They also discuss alternative medicine options that they each have utilized and for which they feel strongly can be useful for those living with TSC and other chronic life-threatening conditions. Long term polypharmacy issues are incredible and waiting for pharmaceutical formulations of cannabis is not an option. We are witnessing suffering and mental/physical health issues that can be addressed in part through other modalities. Jill is a strong advocate for affordable access to cannabinoid medicine for those living with TSC, recently launched a product that, while not designed to treat or cure, is made with hemp components, terpenes and early reviews are phenomenal. It is called Forest Bathing and brings the benefits of the forest, to you!
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This is the full-length video from our TSC Talks hosted, Facebook Live conversation on this topic. Brooke Alisha is an adult and parent living with TSC and Jill Woodworth, the host of TSC Talks, is a parent to several offspring living with TSC. They are talking about the extreme behavioral and mental health challenges of TSC and similar conditions that include a neuropsychiatric component. The weight on the family and ripple effect on relationships can be devastating. Managing care across a lifetime requires exceptional measures of coordination and communication for which parents/families are not prepared. The individual and/or parent/caregiver becomes quite knowledgeable but is put in positions no individual, parent or family should be in making high-level medical decisions on a daily basis in crisis laden situations. Our systems of care have become akin to a "Tower of Babel" and TSC care often exposes these broken and siloed systems. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex is a genetic condition that causes benign tumors to grow in different organs of the body.

They also discuss alternative medicine options that they each have utilized and for which they feel strongly can be useful for those living with TSC and other chronic life-threatening conditions. Long term polypharmacy issues are incredible and waiting for pharmaceutical formulations of cannabis is not an option. We are witnessing suffering and mental/physical health issues that can be addressed in part through other modalities. Jill is a strong advocate for affordable access to cannabinoid medicine for those living with TSC, recently launched a product that, while not designed to treat or cure, is made with hemp components, terpenes and early reviews are phenomenal. It is called Forest Bathing and brings the benefits of the forest, to you!
Get info at: https://tsctalks.com

Brooke has had huge success utilizing Thrive-THRIVE Experience is an 8-week premium lifestyle plan, to help individuals experience and reach peak physical and mental levels. Check out her Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/brookey21

To order Forest Bathing and learn more:
This is the full-length video from our TSC Talks hosted, Facebook Live conversation on this topic. Brooke Alisha is an adult and parent living with TSC and Jill Woodworth, the host of TSC Talks, is a parent to several offspring living with TSC. They are talking about the extreme behavioral and mental health challenges of TSC and similar conditions that include a neuropsychiatric component. The weight on the family and ripple effect on relationships can be devastating. Managing care across a lifetime requires exceptional measures of coordination and communication for which parents/families are not prepared. The individual and/or parent/caregiver becomes quite knowledgeable but is put in positions no individual, parent or family should be in making high-level medical decisions on a daily basis in crisis laden situations. Our systems of care have become akin to a "Tower of Babel" and TSC care often exposes these broken and siloed systems. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex is a genetic condition that causes benign tumors to grow in different organs of the body.

They also discuss alternative medicine options that they each have utilized and for which they feel strongly can be useful for those living with TSC and other chronic life-threatening conditions. Long term polypharmacy issues are incredible and waiting for pharmaceutical formulations of cannabis is not an option. We are witnessing suffering and mental/physical health issues that can be addressed in part through other modalities. Jill is a strong advocate for affordable access to cannabinoid medicine for those living with TSC, recently launched a product that, while not designed to treat or cure, is made with hemp components, terpenes and early reviews are phenomenal. It is called Forest Bathing and brings the benefits of the forest, to you!
Get info at: https://tsctalks.com

Brooke has had huge success utilizing Thrive-THRIVE Experience is an 8-week premium lifestyle plan, to help individuals experience and reach peak physical and mental levels. Check out her Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/brookey21

To order Forest Bathing and learn more:
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