Doctor Felecia

11/15/2025

I thought they were going to let the veterans have this one. I was wrong.

“Washington, DC: Federal lawmakers finalized and approved military funding legislation upholding federal rules barring VA doctors from recommending medical cannabis to veterans.”

Previously included provision allowing access removed by leadership

11/13/2025

My heart and prayers go out to all those who will be negatively impacted by the intoxicating h**p products ban that was slipped into the government shutdown legislation at the last minute. Bad actors have spoiled things for everyone.

The horse is already out of the barn. Prohibition never works. It will only harm public health more. Build the infrastructure needed to properly test these semisynthetic h**p-derived products, legalize and regulate them.

Nothing will change until we get money out of politics. Until we do that, America’s pursuit of “a more perfect Union” will remain a pipe dream…

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) regarding hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women were misinterpreted (2002). This led to 20+ years of postmenopausal women suffering needlessly, and poorly informed physicians.

Overtime, inquiring minds figured out that the multiple estrogens in horses’ urine (e.g.Premarin) are not the same as the estrogen created by women’s ovaries…synthetic progestins (e.g. Provera) are not the same as natural progesterone… and delivering estrogen through the skin is safer than through the mouth.

I look forward to the day, that the same distinctions are made when looking at the body of research on cannabis in pregnancy. One day it will be obvious that smoking cannabis is not the same as other safer delivery methods…synthetic cannabinoids are not the same as botanical cannabinoids directly extracted from the plant… and that isolates (synthetic or botanical) are not the same as full spectrum botanical products.

https://bit.ly/WhyWeDIEHowToLIVE

The Food and Drug Administration will remove the "black box" warning from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products for menopause.

11/01/2025

Less than 1 mg of THC and CBD each a day significantly improved performance on a cognition test…

“A Phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial including patients between 60 and 80 years-old diagnosed with AD-associated dementia. For 26 weeks, participants orally received either placebo or THC-CBD extract (0.350 mg/THC and 0.245 mg/CBD), daily.

Results
At week 26, Mini-Mental State Exam total score was significantly higher in cannabis- when compared to placebo-treated patients…”

Clinical trial data published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

10/31/2025

I am proud to have contributed to the Society of Cannabis Clinicians’ “Rooted in Evidence”, a primer for healthcare providers, legislators, and the general public who want sound information about cannabis as medicine…

Please share far and wide!

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10/28/2025

I am so grateful to the healthcare providers who worked to bring this framework to fruition so that maybe one day soon, everyone can become knowledgeable about the endocannabinoid system and become comfortable with using cannabis as medicine.

I’d like to acknowledge the Journal of the American Medical Association for having the guts to publish it. This is a full circle moment because it was the American Medical Association that pleaded with Congress not to outlaw cannabis via the Ma*****na Tax Act of 1937. Even then, they realized it was medicine and worthy of further research.

This consensus statement describes the development of a set of core competencies for educating medical students about medical cannabis, including its clinical utility, risks, legal landscape, and evidence base, using the Delphi method.

10/27/2025

Having to notify a mom that her fetus is no longer living is one of the most painful things an obstetrician has to do.

Why is the stillbirth rate highest for the poor and black families? Confounding factors like environmental racism/classism, resulting in toxic air, water and food supplies could all be contributing.

“The study found that more than 1 in 150 births end in stillbirth—a rate higher than the rate of 1 in 175 births that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published as the national average. The rate was even higher for families living in low-income areas, where 1 in every 112 births ended in stillbirth. The researchers also observed that the stillbirth rate was 1 in every 95 births in areas with higher proportions of Black families compared to White families. Stillbirth rates did not significantly vary according to rurality and levels of access to obstetric care.

The study also found that while 72.3% of stillbirths had at least one clinical risk factor, a sizable portion of stillbirths occurred with no identified clinical risk factor. Across all of the stillbirths in the study, nearly 27.7% had no risk factor.”

Stillbirths occur at a higher rate in the U.S. than previously reported, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mass General Brigham.

10/26/2025

I am a proud member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. If you or a loved one has questions about cannabis and heart health, this is for you…

Cannabis and the Heart: A Clinical Interpretation of the Evidence Authored by the SCC Media Response Committee The relationship between cannabis and its impact on cardiovascular health has attracted growing...

10/09/2025

“…I would say the probability that the association between acetaminophen use by a mother and the development of autism of her child is a very low…”

Peter Attia, MD

This is the most thorough, thoughtful consideration of the data that I’ve seen on the autism and Tylenol controversy from the conventional medicine world. He does a great job in showing why observational, epidemiologic research can be misleading.

Observational research has also linked cannabis use in pregnancy to autism. However, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in 2017 on Cannabis and Cannabinoids (10K studies, most since 1999) concluded that there is only substantial evidence for cannabis smoking and low birth weight. There is limited or no substantial evidence to support or refute other outcomes.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state

Again, smoking any plant material creates, toxic, combustion byproducts. Delivery method matters.



From The Peter Attia Drive: Tylenol, pregnancy, and autism: What recent studies show and how to interpret the data, Oct 6, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/id1400828889?i=1000730352312&r=3465
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Podcast Episode · The Peter Attia Drive · 10/06/2025 · 1h 27m