Women and Cannabis

What specific therapeutic benefits can marijuana provide for women?

This first-of-its-kind book examines the therapeutic role of medical marijuana in women's medicine and its implications for fertility and maternal/child health. It includes treatises on many gender-specific conditions in obstetrics and gynecology as well as female-predominant medical conditions that are popularly treated with cannabis, such as multiple sclerosis.

Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology presents a broad, multidisciplinary view of this controversial issue with technical chapters exploring the role of cannabis and endogenous Cannabinoids in fertility and neonatal feeding and sociologically and anthropologically oriented chapters examining the role of cannabis in treating morning sickness and cocaine addiction, the latter based on a study of Jamaican women. It also assesses the effects of cannabis use in pregnancy in relation to the neuropsychological assessment of children whose mothers used marijuana while pregnant.

Women and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology provides you with informed discussions of:

• the historical uses of cannabis in obstetrics and gynecology
• the way that the body's endogenous cannabinoid system functions as a trigger for suckling in newborns
• the effect of clinical cannabis on hyperemesis gravidarum, a debilitating ailment characterized by severe nausea and vomiting, malnutrition, and weight loss during pregnancy
• the consequences of marijuana use during pregnancy—for women and their unborn children
• the potential of cannabis to aid in harm reduction—from a nursing perspective
• medical hashish production using the Pollinator and Ice-O-Lator devices—and the benefits of using cannabis in this form
• using cannabis as part of a combined treatment for Tourette Syndrome
• and more!

Reviews

“Groundbreaking. . . . Contains information valuable to anyone who cares about how marijuana affects women. This book is technical, factual, and intelligent, but also easily understandable. . . . Contains practical, cutting-edge information for women seeking to maximize their use of cannabis and provide accurate information to others.”
 -- Cannabis Culture Magazine

“This revolutionizes my clinical practice and answers questios my patients struggled with until now. Any medical text that quoting Muddy Waters ought to be on all our shelves. Superior. . . . Sparks insight!”
 -- Amanda McQuade Crawford, BA, MNIMH, Founder, North American College of Botanical Medicine

“Offers a myriad of evidence, from molecular studies, animal studies, human case reports, and longitudinal cohort studies. Marijuana and cannabis compounds have been used for migraine, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, cocaine withdrawal, Tourette syndrome, and many other maladies. This book explores these medical indications from historical records, ethnographic studies, clinical controlled trials, and personal accounts. Recreational use is also addressed from a unique viewpoint.” 
 -- John M. McPartland, DO, MS, Associate Professor, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand