Category Archives: medical marijuana evaluations

State Wide Collective (Or Plan B) – An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Allan Frankel, MD

GreenBridge Med, is a primary care and Cannabis Specialty Medical practice with Dr. Allan Frankel and Dr. Christine Paoletti. Green Bridge Medical Center, Inc as a 501C3 dedicated to providing guidance and education to physicians, patients, collectives as well as … Continue reading →

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How Do Professionals Extract The Cannabis Plant

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Allan Frankel, MD

Below is a photo of an LA based Super Critical CO2 extraction setup. Most folks are familiar with extraction of cannabis into butter/oils for edibles, or alcohol/glycerin for tinctures. Well, with regard to tinctures, in the State of California, the … Continue reading →

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Health Issues and Gay Marriage

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

As a physician, my only “agenda” must be my patients health and comfort. This involves preventive issues as well as “disease” issues. None of us would minimize preventive health care. I do not know how much gay marriage restricts extra-marital … Continue reading →

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Nuts to them!

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

Peanut Butter   9 and counting Cannabis           0

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So, how could “Open Source” Cannabis work?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

Please refer back to my recent post on “Open Source Cannabis” for background on this concept. One of the most challenging issues facing cannabis research is where to begin to understand how or even which chemicals in cannabis cause an … Continue reading →

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Please read and smile :)

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

I don’t know how I missed this letter from Congress to the DEA. I generally don’t cross the “political” boundaries as a physician, but I really thought this would put a smile on your face. As you will find in … Continue reading →

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The Plant, the Whole Plant and nothing but the Plant

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

Although not the first such study, researchers in Milano, Italy, recently presented a study on whole plant extracts of Cannabis formulations to treat neuropathic pain. If you’d like to read the study, please see the reference at the end of … Continue reading →

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An amazing new patient I recently saw….

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

I recently saw a 70 y/o male as a new patient. He appeared in all ways to be a street person and seemed a bit out of place. However there was something in his eyes that got my attention. His … Continue reading →

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When Do We Use Our Cannabis?

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Allan Frankel, MD

Most patients are reluctant to be open regarding how much and how often they use Cannabis. I always encourage my patients to be as honest as possible, as this is the best starting point in any doctor-patient visit. Further more, … Continue reading →

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Tar and THC

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Allan Frankel, MD

A recent interest of mine has been to research ingestion methods of cannabis.  In reviewing a few articles regarding the various means we all use at times to medicate, the following list results: to smoke in one form or another, … Continue reading →

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