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...
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...
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,...
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...
