Checking In w/ Dr. Safiya Lyn
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Dr. Safiya are talking about marijuana! Dr. Safiya is a licensed Integrative Medical Cannabis & EM Physician. She talks about the positive benefits of medical marijuana despite some of the stigmas that exist around the drug. She also shares how her Jamaican culture and working in an ER led her to working with medicinal marijuana. CHECK IN to this episode if you’ve been considering healing in a different way!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.6 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:30.6 | All right, now, y'all listen. Ain't no judgment on this here episode. You hear me? I am tackling a topic that I've been kind of afraid to talk about because, all right, it's my upbringing. Okay. And isn't it amazing that even |
| 0:41.0 | stuff from my upbringing still affects me today and I'll be 44 in July. It's like, come on, |
| 0:47.5 | I'm grown, right? But this is a topic that I'm excited to talk about and we're going to talk |
| 0:53.1 | about cannabis, y'all. Yes, we're going to talk about weed. All right. I'm excited to talk about and we're going to talk about cannabis y'all. Yes, we're going to talk |
| 0:55.1 | about weed. All right. I'm excited because we have a medical cannabis expert that is going to share. |
| 1:02.9 | There is no agenda today. I'm kind of curious because she's also an emergency medicine physician. |
| 1:08.9 | Like she works in a medical hospital, |
| 1:11.2 | but she is also tackling the area of marijuana |
| 1:14.6 | and kind of breaking the stigma as it relates |
| 1:17.1 | to this plant from the earth. |
| 1:20.6 | All right, are y'all curious, just as curious as I am? |
| 1:23.6 | Because listen, on my mental health journey, |
| 1:26.1 | I was introduced to CBD oil in 2019. |
| 1:31.5 | And it has changed my life. |
| 1:34.8 | So I've been telling everybody about it, not only for depression and anxiety, but for me personally, I even felt inflammation leave my body. |
| 1:43.6 | So I can't wait for Dr. Sophia Lynn. |
| 1:46.9 | She's coming up next on Checking In. |
| 1:52.1 | Y'all, it is an amazing day today. |
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