Cannabis as Preventative Medicine

October 7, 2020 Natural Living

By Susan Boskey “Plant cannabinoids are well-known to be very safe and to have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and neuroprotective properties. In cases of endocannabinoid deficiency, cannabis use may be the correcting compound, eliminating the symptoms of the condition. Regular cannabis use can decrease chronic inflammation and buildup of free radicals, both of which are thought to […]

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Covid-19, Immune Function and Cannabis

September 30, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey As a cannabis educator, one of the things I help people understand is why cannabis has so many health benefits. Ultimately, it’s all about the biological system, known as the endocannabinoid system (ECS), discovered in 1992. Very generally speaking, the ECS regulates the homeostasis of most of the body’s physiological systems for […]

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Cannabis as a Tool for Transformation

September 23, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey In this time of continued great uncertainty during strange dystopian days of lockdown and masks, I see a brilliant opportunity for a post-pandemic reality that far exceeds doom-filled media projections. The questions become: To whom or to what do we rely on for our information? What if more and more of us, […]

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Outer Chaos and Inner Calm

September 16, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Election year 2020, Corvid-19 fears, and wild swings in the stock market have only served to further agitate many who are already dealing with multiple challenges. After 6 months of quarantine, people find themselves off-kilter from the world’s input. […]

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Compelling Validation of New Cannabis Study

June 27, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey During this season of Covid-19 a new scientific study done by Realm of Caring was released June 8 after two years of in-depth research: A Cross-Sectional and Prospective Comparison of Medicinal Cannabis Users and Controls on Self-Reported Health. The study includes both CBD and cannabis since both have significant medicinal value. With […]

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420 Celebration, Quarantine and Wellbeing

April 20, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey Happy 420! What does wellbeing have to do with celebrating 420 this year? My curiosity got the best of me wanting to know how “420” as a code term for cannabis got started in the first place. As the story goes, “A group of five San Rafael (California) High School friends known […]

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Covid-19: Seeking Silver Linings

March 30, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey “The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously     related to his inner state…Men do not attract that which they want, but that    which they are.” ~James Allen, As a Man Thinketh, 1903 In only a matter of a few short weeks the entire planet […]

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Covid-19, Anxiety and Cannabis Dispensaries

March 25, 2020 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey We are living through very strange and uncertain times. Given the spread of Covid-19 in the U.S. changes keep happening at a faster and faster pace. Children are out of school. Parents are trying to figure out how to keep bread on the table. Stores are closing and our cities are becoming […]

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The CannaWisdom Process™

January 28, 2020 Natural Living

By Susan Boskey Natural Blaze Editor’s Note: This is NOT a sponsored post – we do not receive commission from any sale of this course or associated products. The information is provided from a regular contributor to Natural Blaze and is offered here to do your own research. When you want wisdom and insight as […]

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Cannabis Wisdom and the Resilient Human — Part IV

October 8, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey The counterpoint to increasing societal polarity is the increasing visibility of soul pain. Friends and family witness the ways despair has crept into the lives of their loved ones. Though more people see the matrix for what it is and don’t want to be controlled by it, the way out is elusive. […]

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Cannabis Wisdom and the Resilient Human — Part III

October 1, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey Once you recognize your conditioned separate self perpetuated by the societal matrix, you are at choice. You can see the matrix for what it is while still navigating your life in it. The difference is, when you see the matrix, you gain an option to voluntarily broaden your view. (See Part I […]

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Cannabis Wisdom and the Resilient Human – Part II

September 23, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey Cannabis is medicine for the soul to help embolden human resilience; it offers a counterpoint to the mental dysfunction and rising tide of emotional and physical violence in North America. Statistical evidence, as mentioned in Part I of this series, proves this as fact, not opinion. None too soon, nature’s cannabis is […]

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Cannabis Wisdom and the Resilient Human – Part I

September 17, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey The cannabis plant is incredibly versatile as many in legal states are quickly discovering. As a certified cannabis educator and practitioner in private practice, I find a number of medicinal uses that even surprise me. For example, I know someone with macular degeneration who is receiving periodic pharmaceutical injections into his eyes […]

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Cannabis for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

July 9, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey Yes, there really are U.S. doctors that specialize in cannabis, but not more than you could count on two hands. These informed MDs who help patients with how to use cannabis are truly inspirational to those of us who are lay practitioners. They provide credibility and a rock-solid foundation for the efficacy […]

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Is All Cannabis Use Self-Medication?

May 22, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey Recently I was invited to be on a panel about cannabis use for seniors. In an email exchange with one of the organizers I asked, “Are you referring to recreational or medicinal use?” The response I received back was unexpected. She said, “I see no reason to treat medical and recreational differently. […]

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Cannabis is More Than Medicine

May 3, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey The ancient cannabis plant continues to bless we humans and animals while exceeding expectations of its medicinal use. Cannabis of today acts also as a portal to possible new discoveries for health and wellness. In this age of legal cannabis along with the wide use of pharmaceutical drugs, cannabis is often seen […]

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Cannabis Yin and Yang

April 9, 2019 Health And Wellness,Video

By Susan Boskey As far as I can tell, nothing in life is ever simply all one way, either good or bad. Think: people, politics, places, technology … and cannabis for that matter. It seems to me that we have entered (Maybe it always been this way?) a phase where black and white thinking/opinions about […]

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Cannabis Reprimand and Reality

February 18, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey “Almost everything you think you know about the health effects of cannabis, almost everything advocates and the media have told you for a generation, is wrong.” [1] Yes, this is from a February 2019 article by a writer, Alex Berenson, “Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence.” He tells us, among other things, that […]

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Cannabis for Health: Not Ready for Prime Time

January 29, 2019 Homeopathic Remedies,Video

By Susan Boskey With the Super Bowl coming up this next weekend, something surprising happened. The organization called Acreage Holdings with John Boehner (former US House Speaker) on the Board of Directors, submitted a 30 second commercial expressing the value of families having access to ‘Medical Marijuana.’ It was not a commercial for any brand. […]

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Cannabis For Seniors: Don’t Be Afraid Of A Little Psychoactivity

January 14, 2019 Health And Wellness

By Susan Boskey As a Cannabis Practitioner and Coach I often speak with seniors like myself. I can honestly say that many, if not most, are very interested to learn about cannabis and how they might use it for themselves medicinally. Some have told me how they have had to deal with debilitating side effects […]

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