This winter, Dr.

Originally shared by Chet Mitchell

This winter, Dr. Donald Abrams, a professor of clinical medicine at UCSF, hosted an optional seminar about the pharmacology of cannabis for medical students. After explaining how cannabinoid receptors were among the most important in the brain, and how cannabis interacted with them, he paused and asked a simple question.

“How many of you learned about that in med school?” Not a single hand went up.

“If physicians aren’t learning about the most densely populated receptors in the brain, because it has something to do with cannabis,” he later mused, “how they are ever going to prescribe it as medicine?”
https://unitedpatientsgroup.com/blog/2017/06/23/americas-best-marijuana-medical-schools/