Bonni Goldstein, MD of Canna-Centers joins us to share the experience she has gathered from treating thousands of patients with cannabinoid therapies. We discussed:
🌱How the endocannabinoid system changes with age
🌱Dosing cannabis medicine for patients of all ages
🌱Whole plant medicine vs. isolated cannabinoids
🌱The surprisingly low number of pediatricians who are using cannabis therapies

About our Guest:
A native of New Jersey, Dr. Goldstein received her undergraduate degree at Rutgers University, and her medical degree at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She did her internship, residency and chief residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). Dr. Goldstein was a Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics at USC School of Medicine, Emergency Transport Attending Physician at CHLA, and Emergency Medicine Attending Physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at LA County - USC Medical Center.

Her interest in the science of medicinal cannabis was kindled more than ten years ago after witnessing its beneficial effects in a friend who was seriously ill. Since then, she has been evaluating and treating both adult and pediatric patients for the use of medicinal cannabis.

Dr. Goldstein is a sought-after lecturer to many patient support programs, including the Cancer Support Community in Southern California. She has been a featured speaker at CannMed since our first conference at Harvard University in 2016. She has also presented at the Medical Cannabis for Autism conference at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the International Congress on Clinical Trials in Cannabis in London, as well as many other cannabis conferences.

She is currently the Medical Director of Canna-Centers, a Los Angeles-based medical practice devoted to helping patients use cannabis medicine for serious and chronic medical conditions. She is also Medical Advisor to WeedMaps.com, a board member of the International Association of Cannabis as Medicine, and a member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. She is the author of Cannabis Revealed and her second book, Cannabis is Medicine, will be published by Little, Brown Spark in September 2020.


Additional Resources:
🌱https://www.canna-centers.com/
🌱https://wpa4a.org/
🌱https://www.projectcbd.org/
🌱Dr. Goldstein's CannMed 2018 Presentation - https://youtu.be/yAQGof5gKaQ
🌱Dr. Goldstein's CannMed 2017 Presentation - https://youtu.be/KD2WPq1eHLo