via Willits News (California)
July 4, 2014
SONOMA POT DOC SPEAKS OUT
One of the nation’s first licensed medical doctors to treat patients with cannabis spoke to a packed house at the Laytonville Garden Club on June 15 about the remarkable results he’s had treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Alzheimer’s disease, and many other conditions with cannabis.
Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, a Sebastopol physician and president of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group, said the reason cannabis is effective in treating many diseases is because all animals, with the exception of insects, produce their own cannabinoids, called endocannabinoids that work to protect the body from cancers and other injury.
Animals have cannabinoid receptors in their brains, hearts, livers and gastrointestinal systems that can respond to externally supplied cannabis products.
“Pain signals go down when endocannabinoids are released,” said Hergenrather, a former Sonoma County emergency room physician.
“When we’re injured, endocannabinoids go to help. . .They are doing things in very primary, elemental ways in keeping our bodies healthy. It’s homeostasis.”
The Laytonville Garden Club invited Hergenrather to speak as a part of its Cannabis Renaissance series.
On July 13 at 4 p.m. the group will present “Water Regulation, Cannabis and What We Can Learn from the Wine Industry.”
Panelists will be John Nagle, a Sonoma environmental compliance consultant who works with small vineyards, and Hezekiah Allen, a Humboldt environmental consultant and lobbyist for cannabis farmers.
Hergenrather earned his medical degree from Brown University in 1975.
For some years he was house doctor for the legendary alternative community called The Farm, in Tennessee, where he treated more than 1,000 residents., according to a report in O’Shaughnessy’s magazine. Continue reading →
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