Advancing Roles for Cannabis Pharmacists

Other cannabinoids to look out for in addition to setting the expectation with the patients gonna be the biggest thing here and I guess educating across the board because as far as oversight goes and pharmacist involvement I guess you can say there's a lot more infrastructure that could be built and that kind of builds into our next topic of discussion which is going to be the challenges Buy Terpenes associated with the program if Melanie if you'd like to chime in oh so many so the fact that it's a schedule one I think is the greatest handcuff behind your back because I think it really instills a fear that you know this has no medical purpose and it is you know a high risk of abuse and I think there's just so much information out there that conflicts or contradicts this the fact that over 30 states have some type of medical program and just the double digits of states.

That has this as a recreational or adult-use product clearly it can be used safely and effectively but the federal government still doesn't see it that way or internationally as well I think our hands are also tied internationally but when you have a schedule one it makes it really difficult to study and test these products and I think that lack of oversight is really the greatest True Terpenes challenge from a clinician standpoint you know one of the key components to each medical state or adult-use state is having the ability to test your products correctly but even then there are products in the standardization of these testing platforms and they there are challenges with the testing piece the regulatory each state has different rules and in terms of like what they need to test.

So i don't think we actually covered in the article but you know when you have a plant-based medicine that's grown in the ground especially cannabis it's going to pull all the contaminants from the soil into the medicine into the plant so now now not only are you dealing with potential heavy metal contamination from the soil but through the processing through the concentration the concentrating piece of it you're heavily increasing the concentration of these potential heavy metals and if they're not being tested some states don't some states do not test this or if it's grownunder the field of pesticides like that will also get heavily concentrated and some of them are more dangerous than othersand i think if we don't know what Terpenes for sale to look for we're not going to get there andjust thinking about like how difficult these products can be you know look at a valley the electronic vaporizer associated lung injuryit started before covid and i think because of the coronavirus it's kind of you know fallen off whether or not it's it's still happening or not we don't really know but you know was it a contaminated vitamin e tocopherol product was it something from the device itself a lot of these devices are coming from china they're unregulatedwe have no idea if there's any leaching going on with those heavy metals from the battery but the plastic that they're using you know there's just so many unknowns and it's difficult to get the funding to test thiseffectively some other challenges with plant-based medicine.