by Rachel Parmelee, BSN, RN, CRRN, MSN-Ed Student | Jul 16, 2018 | Advocacy, Law & Policy
Many states within the U.S. adopted laws for the use of marijuana (or its constituents) for medical or recreational purposes, leaving policy makers with the difficult task of implementing regulations.1 Some states included protection for healthcare professionals who...
by Bryan Krumm, MSN, RN, CNP, BC | Jul 10, 2018 | Advocacy, Patient Stories
Bryan A. Krumm MSN, RN, CNP, BC In April of 1984, after failing out of College and entering into a 2 year enlistment in the US Army, I took an oath to “defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”. Since swearing that oath,...
by Carey S. Clark, PhD | Sep 24, 2017 | Advocacy
Having presented on the Endocannabinoid System (eCS) and the nurse’s role in cannabis medicine at many national and statewide nursing conferences, I am often asked how Registered Nurses can become “Cannabis Nurses.” Additionally, as President-Elect of the American...
by Wendy Buck-Benge, RN | Sep 24, 2017 | Advocacy, Patient Stories
People tell me things. They always have even when I was a kid. Maybe it was because my face on the playground had no history with the other kids. Maybe it was my sister Betsy. She had a seatbelt installed on the bus especially for her. This was before short buses and...
by Wendy Turner | Jul 24, 2017 | Advocacy, Law & Policy, Patient Stories
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes inflammation of the lining of your digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss, and malnutrition. Inflammation caused by Crohn’s disease can...
by Stacey Linn | Jul 24, 2017 | Advocacy, Law & Policy, Patient Stories, Pediatric
Jack Splitt pioneered the way to allow children to take their medicine on school grounds in Colorado. Cirque 2016 Colorado’s medical cannabis program began with the passage of Amendment 20 in 20001. Cannabis was legalized to treat a specific list of medical...
by Anita Briscoe, APRN-BC | Jul 23, 2017 | Advocacy
My mother came to Espanola, NM in 1952 to be a missionary nurse. At that time Espanola was a beautiful, bucolic village along the river, in the foothills of both the Jemez and the Sangre de Cristo mountain ranges. It was a beautiful place to grow up. I followed in my...
by Mary Lynn Mathre, RN, MSN, CARN | Apr 24, 2017 | Advocacy
Pain is the most common reason people seek health care. A common treatment for moderate to severe acute and chronic pain has including opioids. While many patients may suffer from an opioid use disorder that started with experimentation with illicit opioids or heroin,...
by Anita Briscoe, APRN-BC | Feb 24, 2017 | Advocacy
How can nurses create a sea change in the way cannabis is used as medicine? Here’s how I did it: I saw that there was a great need out there among my cannabis patients who were certified for cannabis under another condition: They needed help quitting or cutting down...
