Seventeen chapters of clear, evidence-based guidance, education and information for adults considering therapeutic cannabis after 50 — from the underlying science to the conversations worth having with your healthcare team.
Paperback & eBook
17 Chapters
General Audience
Most cannabis books are either cheerleading or condemnation. Most are written for a general adult audience that doesn’t reflect the medication lists, health histories, and life stages of readers in their 50’s up to their 80’s and beyond. We wrote the book we wished existed when our own families started asking questions.
Where the evidence is solid, we say so. Where it’s mixed or limited, we say that too. You will not be told that cannabis is a miracle cure or a moral failing. You will be given the information and trusted to discuss it with your healthcare provider and make your own informed choice.
The book moves from foundation to practice — starting with how cannabis works, ending with the conversations to have with your healthcare team and family.
“ The right question is not whether cannabis is good or bad. The right question is what cannabis does, what it doesn't do, and whether — given everything else going on in your body and your medicine cabinet — it makes sense for you. This book exists to help you answer that question for yourself. ”
— Ken Feldman, Ph.D.
Where the evidence is solid, we say so. Where it’s for yourself, for chronic pain that hasn’t responded to other treatments, for sleep that has shifted with age, or simply because you want to understand what the science actually says. mixed or limited, we say that too.
If your aging parent is considering cannabis or has started using it, this book gives you a shared evidence base — and a vocabulary for the conversation you may need to have.
A practical reference for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists whose patients are increasingly asking cannabis questions they were never trained to answer.
If you’ve found cannabis information either too dismissive or too credulous, this book aims for a middle most popular sources don’t bother with: honest about what works, honest about what doesn’t.
