Interviews with Cannabis Experts
Sarah Russo interviews various experts spanning the gamut of cannabis science, medicine, botany, and more.
Ziva Cooper
Cooper researches the effects of psychoactive substances in the human laboratory using double-blind, placebo controlled methods. Her work, funded by the NIH and industry, focuses on understanding biological and behavioral factors that influence both the therapeutic and adverse effects of cannabis, cannabinoids (the chemical constituents of the cannabis plant), opioids, and cocaine.
Zach Walsh
Walsh is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the Therapeutic Recreational and Problematic Substance Use lab.
John McPartland
Dr. McPartland first studied medicinal plants with Euell Gibbons in 1969, and began cannabinoid research in 1981 (Mycopathologia 87:149-153).
Jahan Marcu, PhD
Marcu is an author of the American Herbal Pharmacopeia's Cannabis Monograph and serves on multiple expert government, trade association committees, scientific organizations and is a court-qualified synthetic cannabinoid and cannabis expert. He has helped create medical cannabis educational training for clinicians and for workers in the medical cannabis industry, and has been invited to speak at many international conferences and universities. Dr. Marcu is a recipient of the Billy Martin research award from the International Cannabinoid Research Society.
Sulak is an integrative medicine practitioner with a focus in medical cannabis, osteopathy, and mind-body medicine. Dr. Sulak’s clinical practice focuses on treating refractory conditions in adults and children with a variety of safe, alternative therapies in an individualized, health-centered approach.
Paula Dall'Stella
Dall'Stella is a functional medicine doctor working in the radiology sector at Sirio Libanes Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Paula has also studied alternative medicine in southeast Asia and has been a volunteer doctor at the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Paola Pineda
Dr Pineda set out to find new alternatives for pain management and in the process discovered cannabis medicine. She later took part in the first discussions on the subject in the Colombian Congress, where she met mothers of children with refractory epilepsy who were seeking medical advice on treatment for their children. Although she began working on the subject in her spare time, she now devotes all of her professional life to it.
Viola Brugnatelli
Viola Brugnatelli is a Neuroscientist specialized in Cannabinoid circuitry, GPCRs signalling, and neuropharmacology. Her academy and research training gave her extensive experience on medical cannabis and phytoceuticals both from preclinical as well as clinical perspective.