353: Everything you need to know about medical & recreational marijuana | Psychiatrist Rebecca Siegel, M.D.

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Rebecca Siegel, M.D.: “There needs to be more research [on marijuana] so physicians can either get behind it or not get behind it." Siegel, a psychiatrist and a licensed prescriber of medical marijuana in New York state, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how marijuana actually affects your brain, plus: - How to know if medical marijuana will work for you (01:32) - Is marijuana really a gateway drug? (08:06) - How men & women's brains react differently to marijuana (14:41) - Healthier "swaps" for marijuana (24:50) - How to know if you or someone you love is abusing marijuana (27:02) Referenced in the episode: - Find the podcast transcript here. - Siegel's book, The Brain On Cannabis. - King's College study on marijuana & psychosis. - Malcolm Gladwell's op-ed on marijuana. - Learn more about Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. - Alex Berenson's book, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. - Amen Clinics. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:45.6	Dr. Rebecca Siegel is a licensed prescriber of Medical Marijuana in New York State,
0:54.0	a psychiatrist and on staff with Amon Clidix in the author of a new book I found to be fascinating.
1:00.8	The Brain on Cannabis. What you should know about recreational and medical marijuana.
1:08.0	She is a graduate of Duke University in Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She did her residency
1:13.9	in Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York
1:19.9	City and she's a member of the American Psychiatric Association as well as the American Academy
1:26.0	of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. And in 2004 she was selected to win the Women in Psychiatry
1:32.6	Award from the Mount Sinai Department of Psychiatry. Now bear with us on today's show. Dr. Siegel
1:40.8	is actually hearing imperative whereas a hearing aid. So the audio with her equipment is a little bit
1:48.0	echoed but bear with us it's a great show and an important one. Rebecca, welcome.
1:56.9	Thank you. Nice to be here. So I'm going to start at a high level. There are primarily
2:05.7	two uses. Medical and recreational when it comes to marijuana. Let's start with the medical.
2:14.1	What does the science say about who can benefit and what conditions can marijuana help? So let's
2:21.6	start there. Well, we first have to go back and start with,
2:25.9	so marijuana is not federally legal. It's legalized by state. So that is a very why it leads
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