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Periodic Effects: Cannabis Science Podcast

Dec 30, 2021

Jordan Zager, PhD, is identifying key genetic markers in cannabis related to pathogens, pest attacks, terpenes and cannabinoid profiles. We discuss a gene they recently discovered for making cannabis resistant to powdery mildew and how the future of plant genetics will impact the cannabis industry.

Jordan is the CEO &...


Dec 22, 2021

Our guest is Ruth Fisher, PhD. We discuss her recent research paper on medicinal cannabis use for PTSD, how psychedelics might also be used for PTSD, the default mode network in your brain and her writing process for summarizing and researching scientific papers.

Ruth is the Author of The Medical Cannabis Primer and a...


Dec 14, 2021

The cannabis industry was built around medical patients, but as federal legalization looms, will those same patients be forgotten in this new regulatory landscape.

Dr. Jordan Tishler is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent 15 years at the VA as an Emergency Physician. He started InhaleMD when those...


Dec 7, 2021

Cannabis is quickly becoming a recreational product, however many of those “rec consumers” may be buying for medicinal reasons, like anxiety, depression or PTSD. 

Saj Razvi, LPC is a psychotherapist and former clinical researcher in the MAPS Phase 2 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. We discuss his plant medicine...


Nov 30, 2021

Greg Gerdeman’s Ph.D. dissertation in Pharmacology from Vanderbilt University was one of the first studies to discover endocannabinoids acting as so-called “retrograde messengers” in the brain, which has become a foundation to modern understanding of the ECS and the effects of cannabis. After multiple roles in the...