Tammi Sweet - The Wholistic Healing Guide to Cannabis: Understanding the Endocannabinoid System, Addressing Specific Ailments and Conditions, and Making Cannabis-Based Remedies

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This publication is intended to provide educational information on the covered subject. It is not intended to take the place of personalized medical counseling, diagnosis, or treatment from a trained health professional. Please be aware of cannabis-related laws that may apply to you. Please exercise caution when using health remedies of any kind and follow all safety guidelines.

Text 2020 by Tammi Sweet

Ebook production by Kristy L. MacWilliams

Ebook version 1.0

September 1, 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sweet, Tammi, author.

Title: The wholistic healing guide to cannabis : understanding the endocannabinoid system addressing specific ailments & conditions making cannabis-based remedies / Tammi Sweet.

Description: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Author Tammi Sweet combines her expertise in herbal medicine and neurobiology in this in-depth guide to understanding the science of how and why cannabis medicine is effective-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020006767 (print) | LCCN 2020006768 (ebook) | ISBN 9781635861372 (paperback) | ISBN 9781635861389 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Cannabis--Therapeutic use. | Cannabinoids--Therapeutic use.

Classification: LCC QP801.C27 S94 2020 (print) | LCC QP801.C27 (ebook) | DDC 615.7/827--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006767

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006768

I begin with my plant ally, cannabis. Thank you for all the ways you have helped me to be a better human. Thank you for your generous gifts that allow me to be here, sharing your magic with others. I hope I have represented you in ways that are helpful and respectful.

Next, I come to the human plant-loving clan I call family, the herbalists. My first visit to this world was at the New England Womens Herbal Conference in the late 1990s. Although I initially felt like a tree among the flowers, with my basketball shorts and jock attitude, I soon knew these were my people. It was here that my understanding of right relationship blossomed and was nourished. Elders honored for the accumulated wisdom that comes from living a full life held council and told stories under an old oak while the line of budding herbalists brought their gifts and gratitude. We understand our abundant life is made possible by the life-giving generosity of our ancestors, the green world. We would not be here without their offering of the oxygen we breathe, food, clothing, shelter, and medicine. Rosemary Gladstar, my beloved first herbal teacher, exemplifies right relationship as she walks the world spreading fairy dust over those who come close enough to listen. One of her many gifts is her ability to see potential leaders and teachers and offer them a place at the table. Her request for me to teach at Sage Mountain began my path to this book. Pam Montgomery continued my education on the subtle nature of plant spirits and how we must step into our rightful place as healthy co-creators with the plant world. Again, this book would not be here without her mentoring, exploring, and tracking the places of plant relationship and her generosity of spirit to share what she found. Tom Brown Jr., the master mapmaker of the spirit world, thank you for showing me ways for deep connection with spirit.

It takes a village to write a book. Life carries on while I sit in my Tam cave researching, learning, and writing. The garden continues to thrive and be nourished, the medicine continues to be made, and chores on the land continue to get done. Thank you, Suzanne, for taking the lead on nourishing me and our land and Kim and Milo and all the interns who kept all the chores rolling. Thank you to Kim for being my personal article retriever and Endnote manager.

Finally, my beloved companion on this wild ride, my wife, Kris. Thank you for holding all the beta-chirps, all the details of our very full life so I could go and write. For the counseling sessions as I cried about all the animal experiments I needed to sift through in researching this book, for the kind listening to my ideas, for your insightful editing, and for the fun paths you sent me down in exploring new ideas. I wouldnt be here without your solid, gentle, and wise companionship.

Thank you.

I would like to introduce you to the plant cannabis. My intention is for this book to offer meaningful, reliable information and insight about cannabis for the beginning explorer as well as the experienced practitioner of the healing arts. You may be an herbalist or acupuncturist; a nurse, physician, or massage therapist; or psychotherapist, addiction and recovery counselor, or dispensary worker; or a traveler on the path of being human in a challenging world. In any case, we are all looking for reliable information to help people who are suffering find relief.

Perhaps youve heard that CBD oil can cure almost everything. Or a loved one has been suffering from a long-term illness and youve heard cannabis might help. Perhaps youre a parent whose child has struggled with epilepsy or a person who simply feels stuck in a rut of negative thinking. You might have just discovered this plant or already be in a long-term relationship with cannabis. You may have come to this book in a hurry, eager to research cannabiss properties or to make a medicine. Or you may have wandered in with a mind full of curiosity about whats fact and whats mythology. Whatever brings you here, my first choice is to have you land in a comfortable spot in front of a warm fire or a sunlit window with the just-right fullness of a well-nourished body and time to spare.