Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness: An Essential Guide for Using Nature's Medicine to Relieve Stress, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Inflammation, and More

by Aliza Sherman, Dr. Junella Chin

A safe, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide to using cannabis—including CBD and THC — to ease chronic and acute health issues such as pain, insomnia, inflammation, depression, anxiety, grief, stress, and more, from the founder of a global cannabis wellness network and an osteopathic physician.

With legalization of recreational cannabis in 10 states and medical marijuana in 33 states, interest is growing in cannabis-related health products, especially those made with CBD — a cannabinoid that has healing properties without the psychoactive effects of THC. Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness demystifies cannabis and its history, and explains in simple and straightforward language how to use it to treat myriad health and lifestyle issues. With information on cannabis forms (tinctures, topicals, edibles, flowers, concentrates), methods of ingestion (smoking, vaping, capusles, patches, creams, and more), dosing and microdosing, safety and storage, caregiving, and effectivess for self-care, physical fitness, sexual arousal, aging, and more, this is the only book you need to start using cannabis — in a targeted and safe way — for better health.

Genres: Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

Published June 4, 2019

About the author

Aliza Sherman is a Web pioneer and Cannabis Entrepreneur. Fast Company magazine recently named her one of the "Most Influential Women in Technology." Newsweek named her one of the "Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet" after she founded the first woman-owned Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc. and the first global women's Internet networking organization, Webgrrls International. Today, she is CEO and co-founder of Ellementa, the fastest growing cannabis wellness network for women.

Reviews

[moss · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent entryway into the world of using cannabis as medicine. I’ve been using cannabis for over almost 15 years, and I learned a lot of new things from this book. It’s clear, simple to understand, and straightforward. I recently began working at a dispensary, and I’m definitely going to be using the things I learned in helping customers/patients and myself.

I appreciate that the authors briefly discuss the role of racism and capitalism in the stigma and illegality of cannabis. Many in the wellness and cannabis industries like to profit off of them while ignoring the injustice that is the foundation of these industries.

This book covered everything from how to microdose and keep a detailed journal, the different products on the market and how to best use them, and all the basics such as cannabinoids, terpenes, which strains work best for what, etc. Great little resource. I’ll probably purchase a copy eventually to have as a reference. The selected bibliography and additional resources in the back of the book make it simple to further deep dive into specific interests within cannabis that the reader might have.

[Ruthann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this book to educate myself on CBD use and types of Terpenes to be used for chronic pain and inflammation reduction. It was informative but not as complete as I’d hoped for. I would have liked to see more concrete research and less examples from the author/doctor treating her own patients. Overall though- I did learn quite a bit and increased my understanding of cannabis.

[Valerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent beginner style book to touch on topics, and give you a starting point. Though it did have mention of pain, it does not have references specifically for arthritis in this book. I did enjoy the factoids in the grey boxes. I felt it was the parts that made this book worth reading.

[Kari Olfert · Rating 3 out of 5]

101 but overall put together well minus the chapter of how to tell ppl you take cannabis. I mean do you announce to your friends and family you take a medication..haha that'd be weird.

[Danielle Noone · Rating 5 out of 5]

informative read.