The Cannabis Chronicles; Tourette Syndrome

Tonight’s topic is one that’s often misunderstood…

Tourette Syndrome.

Tourette Syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by:

• involuntary movements
 • vocal tics
 • repetitive behaviors

These tics can range from mild…

To disruptive…

And in some cases, deeply impactful on daily life.

This is not about “quirks” or stereotypes.

This is about real neurological function.

And for many individuals…

It comes with:

• social challenges
 • anxiety
 • misunderstanding from others

So, the question becomes:

 "Where does cannabis fit into this conversation?"

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Transcript

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All right, welcome friends, stoners, and canafam to the latest episode of The Cannabis Chronicles. I am Dr. Bong, and I'm your host for our weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation, where we chop it up about our favorite subject, cannabis. And uh we are joined by our friends during the show. I'm just getting myself set up here so I can see what's going on. I realize I can have some music on in the background. I do not have to have the rights to this music. I'm just playing some reggae music in the background. So as I said, all right. All right, welcome friends, Stoners and Canafam to the latest episode of The Cannabis Chronicles. I am your boy, Dr. Bong, and we are weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation, where we chop it up about our favorite subject, cannabis, and we keep it in our medical cannabis mode. So uh shout out to all of our friends in the uh in the universe, our friends, our stoners, and our canopam. You know, we have developed a relationship with so many of you. So shout out to all of you in the ethos. So as I said, I am your boy, Dr. Bong, and we are the Cannabis Chronicles, where we chop it up, and today we're talking about a subject that a lot of folks don't, you know, they don't talk about it. I uh I talk about things, you know, uh that's a little different. You know, I uh first of all, drop the information. There we go. So that's what that's why they call it live TV, live show. I just dropped my script. So, but as I was gonna say, uh the key to what our show does is that we talk about subjects and things that folks don't talk about. Like, you know, normally we don't talk about medical cannabis in that way. You know, um, like I say many times, everybody's jumping on the adult use. Excuse me, because I do have to pick this up because I do not have a PA here to help me. So we are the Cannabis Chronicles. I'm your boy, Dr. Bond, and I'm picking up my notes off of the ground because I just dropped them. So we are weekly candid Cannabis Community Conversation, and we'll be chopping up about our favorite subject, cannabis. So forgive me. Uh, tonight's topic is one that is often misunderstood. Tourette's syndrome. Now, Tourette's syndrome is a neurological condition characterized by involuntary movements, vocal ticks, and repetitive behaviors. Now, these ticks, they can mild, they can range from mild to disruptive. And um, in some cases, deeply impactful on daily life. Um, it brings to mind um shout out to Michael B. Jordan uh and uh Del Roy Lindo. I told my girlfriend the story, but shout out to him, uh and I'm gonna tell you the story about Del Roy Linda after. I figured I'd tell the story uh excuse me, um, but basically in the Tourette Syndrome, they were at the BAFTA Awards and the British American, uh, so basically British actors, uh, the same that uh what do you call that? The uh comparable to the Academy Award. So everybody knows he was up for a few um few awards, and what happens is they bleed over. They they present here, we present there, you know, people cross over between the two shows. So anyway, while Michael B. Jordan and Delry Lindo was on stage, a gentleman route uh shouted out, nigger, and caused a huge, huge, huge situation. Uh because again, and then the uh it it de-escalated because it escalated because uh the uh ward show never apologized. But um the story is that you know the person had Tourette syndrome. So basically what it does is those ticks, I guess they think it range from mild to disruptive. So we consider that to be a disruptive situation. And in some cases, and in this particular case, deeply impactful on life. So it's not about quirks or stereotypes, fam. It's about it's about real neurological function. I saw a show, it's interesting because um I was preparing for tonight's show, and I saw a um a promo for the show, um a TV show on uh I Love Discovery Channel. I think it's Baylin Out Loud. And this young woman is living with Tourette's in her day-to-day life. They film her, uh, reality TV and what she what goes on for her. So if uh if you don't know anyone who has Tourette syndrome or if you've never experienced that, it's an awkward situation. I actually knew someone in school who had Tourette's and they um would say the weirdest things. And uh, you know, it was interesting. Um uh, but you know, me, I'm a friend, I've always been a friendly person, so I was friends with this individual. So though not only did I have Tourette's, he had a very heavy stutter, but I was talking to him and I walked away, and he was still in the middle of saying what he's saying, and I didn't know. I thought he was done. And I'm a few feet away, and he goes, he finished his thing and he yelled it out. And I'm like, wow. So um, but you know, just just just to know that it's not something that's just you know, people aren't acting, it is actually in neurological conditions. Drink some water. We are the cannabis chronicles. I'm your boy Dr. Bond with Weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation. I've reached out to my boys, man. I wanted them to, you know, uh come on the show. I know Wild Bill is having a couple a few things going on, so he's busy, man. So I cannot wait to get him back on the show. And also with uh JQ. So shout out to both uh Wild Bill and JQ. Um, they are individuals who I have helped in my cannabis career because uh, as you know, I have a 10-year career. Um uh 20 years in the uh what do you call it? What do we call this? We call the legacy market for many, many years. And 10 years I actually worked the past 10 years I worked in educating medical cannabis patients on the benefits of medical cannabis, and not only that, but helping them choose uh what works for them. And actually, I never had anyone, I don't think I ever had a patient who had Tourette syndrome. But again, the question always boils down to every week, and we're here at the Cannabis Chronicles is where does cannabis fit into the conversation? So tonight we're gonna explore it always, as we always do, through the four lenses business, culture, health, and potpourri. But since today is first of all, I want to say uh happy, belated 420. Since it's 420 week, uh week of 420, started last week. Um shout out to all their friends, Stoners and Can of Fam who enjoyed 420 along with myself. I had to keep it close to home and to the studio um just to uh make sure everything was safe here. But I enjoyed it uh very, very, very much, as I do enjoy every day, because for me, every day is pretty much 420. I said, you know, the um the 16-year-old me is pinching himself because I can't believe the the what I do. Um before I um I was on a train and I was living all the way in uh the Bronx. Well, I was living here in the Bronx, and my dispensary that I worked at was all the way in Brooklyn. Now, thank God it wasn't all the way down at the bottom of Brooklyn by by the ocean. It was at the top of Brooklyn by the Barclays Center. So if anybody in New York knows, there's a huge, a huge amount of uh stops between Barclays and uh, and I don't even know if that would be a stop, but you can go directly from there to Coney Island, but it's a heck of a long ride. But anyway, I was on the train and I was on um happened to be on the train with a co a colleague of mine. She actually lived in a box, true. Shout out to her. I don't want to say her name because I don't know what she's doing in the cannabis industry, but you know what? Somewhat, um, so we were on the train and um we were talking and she was, you know, she was lamenting the fact that we had to take all this long trip all the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn. And I realized, I was like, you know, yeah, but I had thought this before when we first started, when I first started doing this, because I like I went through a whole situation to do this medical cannabis thing. But anyway, um, I said to her, you know, you have a rock star job. You have a rock star career. People would kill to do what you do, what we do. So, you know, you gotta look at it like that. So since I've pivoted to, and I really never thought about, and I never thought about this, I never thought about doing a show. I don't think I was doing or even thought about the show at that point because again, no, because we hadn't even had yet, we hadn't even gone through COVID yet. We were still in a um, we hadn't even seen lockdown. So that was when the world was that was pre-lockdown. So there was no show, and um, you know, none none of that stuff had yet had popped off yet. But I said to um this colleague, um uh Kodani, um, I said, Kodani, um, you know, you we have a rock star job. We do things that people would kill to do and be able to do. So I always keep that thing thought uh that um, you know, that kept that in my mind. And um so for me, it was, you know, uh uh what do you call that? It was the wind beneath my wings. It gave me strength, it gave me purpose, and uh gave me focus when I was down. I guess that's today's one of those days. I need that. Um I looked forward to all every week I look forward to the show, but this week I was looking forward to the show to get a little momentum and energy in my spirit, in my soul, and my heart. So uh we do what we gotta do, you know, and sometimes people and things need us, and we have to be there and present for those people and those things. So shout out to Miss A. I love my girl so much, she's such a wonderful um part of my life. So thank you, baby. Um, segment one, we talk about uh the cannabis industry is expanding into more complex health conversations. So, like Tourette's syndrome, we're seeing increased attention to neurological conditions, behavioral disorders, and patient-centered care. Folks are going, so those three, those three bullet points, you know, neurological conditions, obviously Tourette syndrome, is we just mentioned that it is a neurological condition. So, cannabis is brought in to help those individuals improve the quality of their life based on what this condition does to them. So, in uh I love the normal, shout out to normal and normal magazine and normal national normal and normal New York and Daniel and Colleen and everybody involved with normal, but Tourette syndrome, I T S is a complex neuropathic disorder of unknown etiology that is characterized by involuntary vocal ticks. Severity of these conditions varies widely among patients, though there is no cure for Tourette's. The condition often improves with age. Experts estimate that 100,000 Americans are afflicted with Tourette's syndrome. So we're looking at a lot of folks who deal with that. So I don't know what percentage of that, what their percentage of the population is. A view of the scientific literature reveals several case reports of a small number of clinical trials specific to the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of Tourette's syndrome. And one of the first uh first appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry back in 1999, um, and investigators at Germany's Medical School of Hanover reported a successful treatment of Tourette syndrome with a single dose of 10 milligram to the 10 milligram dose of Delta 9 THC. Uh 25 male year old patient, 25-year-old male patient in is in an uncontrolled open clinical trial. So um, as I was saying in this particular thing, that review shows that uh that uh people are finding benefits from that. But also it goes back to what we talk about every week. We talk about the fact that cannabis is not in always in that particular form. You don't have to always uh and I had to think about that too, because I was talking, trying to open up the wrong side of a budget uh box, but I was talking, and like what are the routes of administration? How do people use candidates? You know, um, and obviously the most I don't know, prominent, yeah. I guess prominent, and also just based on a business. Let's talk about business. Um the most widely known, there it is, that's the words I've looked for. The most widely known route of administration is obviously combustion. Uh, had thought about that. I didn't know how to say the right word. I remembered it, and I wanted to say start smoking, it's called combustion. Because people kind of get vaporization and combustion uh mixed up. Totally different, uh, same routes, same basic route of administration without the carcinogens that folks say that are involved with the uh combustion academies because there's smoke involved, there's uh those embers, that kind of thing going on. So there's there's always going to be a debate based on that. We are the cannabis chronicles. I am your boy, Dr. Bond. And is that we're seeing increased attention to neurological conditions, behavioral disorders. I would consider somebody being able, or you know, somebody having the uncontrollable desire to yell out and scream something, and they can't control that. I think that would be something that we would consider behavioral disorder. So if you can use a 10 milligram medication, and basically that same order says that the successful treatment and it lasted, let's see, it says it started reported that the subject's total GHC tick severity score fell from 41 to 7 within two hours following cannabinoid therapy, and the improvement was reserved for a total of seven hours. So if you could take that medication twice a day, okay, a person who suffers from Tourette syndrome, and it takes it down, let's see, so 41, 7 divided by 41, 721. So you figure what six times. Um, so if you get six times less uh uh outburst, uh tick, uh whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever is going associated with Tourette syndrome, and you can use cannabis like that, and I guess in a pill form because there's different routes of administration. You don't always have to smoke. You can have vape, as I said, you can have oral solution, you can have a cup of tea, put that oral solution in a cup of tea, drink that tea. That tea is now a medicated dose of tea. Also have a capsule, you can also have a topical to put directly on the condition. We are the cannabis chronicles. I am your boy, Dr. Bong. Um, as legalization expands, more and more individuals are exploring cannabis outside traditional medical systems. And guess what they're doing? That's right, leads us into the business. Uh what we see now that the largest growing product in the uh adult-use cannabis uh space are what? Pre-rolls. So pre-rolls are obviously something you're going to have to combut. So even though we have this information, the old traditional way of consuming cannabis is the way that most folks are enjoying to use cannabis. So cannabis, I mean, let's face it, the access to it has arrived. If you don't live in a state that's already medical, medical, medical cannabis is allowed, guess what? Soon it will be. Uh take a look at the news. The president um changed the classification of cannabis. I don't know if you know what that means, but the scheduling was schedule one would mean there was no, excuse me, guys, there was no whatsoever, no medical benefit. However, as we know, as we advocate, as we talk about in the show, there are medical benefits. So the um change in structure, change in um, change in change in language, change in scheduling, went from schedule one to schedule three, still controlled, still really, really, really sticky, sticky gray area. We really got to talk about that. Uh, we are here on this show uh advocates of full legalization of cannabis because listen, it's just a plant. I can go to the store and I can buy, see, because the demonization is in our heads. Again, it's just a plant. The plant doesn't grow up and come say, hey, you know, we develop a brain and you know, seduces a person to consume it. But if a person can get medicinal benefits from it from Tourette's syndrome, and let's face it, like I said, I have 10 years of medical cannabis experience. I've helped so many great people. Um, I my I have helped, I was the first uh what they call this patient care representatives back then to help a person who was in hospice care, was in a nursing home. Um we had to uh had to to um basically just give gave the same what we call the intake uh that you would give a uh new patient to the nursing staff. Uh it was like two people. They came in, I gave them, you know, just you know, talked to them about what you know the products were. Um it was basically a simple oral solution, you know, dosing, showed them what the dosing was, didn't take long their nurses. And I actually helped that patient. And uh his daughter let us know that it was doing well, and he tolerated it, um, and his toleration was good. Um I was just not, I wasn't really, again, just I wasn't privy every day to the information, but I just felt good and that I was able to be there for someone and then uh for someone who was going through the conditions in the nursing home. And uh, you know, I reached out a few months later, and the daughter let me know that the father had passed away, but he passed away in a different space mentally, physically. He wasn't in a so it wasn't as much pain, and we're gonna talk about that later on in the poker section, about end of life and how cannabis can help those individuals who are in palliative and hospice care. We are the cannabis chronicle. So with that, with that increased uh, with that access, increased access, so um, so has what self-directed use folks are asking those questions. So this is where cannabis moves from availability to responsibility. Uh again, from from accountability to responsibility. From availability, excuse me, from availability to responsibility, because conditions like to red syndrome require careful consideration. We have to help, we have to think about these individuals. We have to be considerate of dosing. One of the things I've said to many, many times, having a sip of water, is that because medical cannabis is med uh cannabis was labeled medicine medicinal and holistic medicine, first of all, let me just clarify that. Holistic medicinally beneficial um uh geez, I lost my train of thought. Let's see, let's see, this is so we have to consider those folks. So um we have to be able to inform them, we have to be able to educate them, and we have to be able to be able to like that's why there's a pharmacist on disp in medical canvas dispensary, so they can ask those answer those questions. And if a patient is concerned, say about a medical, a medicine um interaction, then that pharmacist who let's face it, for many people, pharmacists are the closest thing, you know, the less most least expensive physician, you know, access to a physician without having to make an appointment with the doctors off. Because if you know, if you don't know this, every physician, every pharmacist is pretty much a doctor. They just have a different form of being a physician. They are pharmacists. Shout out to my favorite pharmacist, my homie, my primo, the one and only uh Nelson, Nelson Quebec, uh, the man who brought Dr. Bong into the medical cannabis space and started all this. So listen to Reggae Music. Shout out to The Marley family. You've got Bob Marley in the background. All right. So the industry must avoid oversimplification of these conditions because these people are serious and their conditions are serious. I came across a couple of um couple of articles, a couple of articles. So let's talk about this one. Seven to two seven hours. First time patient subjective experience when smoking cannabis was confirmed by using a valid and reliable rating scale. So I guess if they had already been cannabis users, that they came across the opportunity to rate them because of that cannabis use. Investigators confirmed that these preliminary results in randomized double blind placebo. That's too much. Hold on. See, uh 12 adult uh Tourette syndrome patients responded significantly improved. Excuse me, a significant improvement of ticks and observed of excuse me. Slow down. The patients reserved the re researchers reported a significant improvement of ticks and obsessive compulsive behavior after treatment with Delta-9 THC compared to a placebo. Investigators reported no cognitive impairment in subjects following THC administration and concluded that THC is an effective and safe in treating tics with obsessive, excuse me, with obsessive compulsive behavior in Dr. Syndrome. Alright, so the industry must avoid oversimplifying these conditions. They must make stop making unsupported claims and promoting one size fits all solutions because that's that's the easy way to do it. That's the easy way out. Put in some effort in what you want to do. Put in some effort and be proud of helping people, you know, because that's just the layer. There's so many other layers to it. So um just always remember that, you know, when you talk about medical cannabis, I always remember that these are people and these are lives and these are real conditions that they and their families have to deal with every day on a daily basis. Shout out to the friends of the show, Best Buds Magazine. Uh DC and his team all over the country, LA, Atlanta, here in New York. That's us. Shout out to you. Check out Best Buds Magazine at bestbudsmagazine.com. And while you're there, you can check out the old, older episodes of the Cannabis Chronicles. And we actually did it on Instagram live. So I guess what we call it, a vlog. So you can check them out at bestbudsmagazine.com. Also, also, also, you want to check out a clash and read a really good book and check out some really cool pictures and photos of his cultivars, check out our friends on Instagram, Sage Genetics, and you can follow them on our page, or if you want to look them up there yourself, it's SageGenetics.com. Sage genetics at in at Instagram.com. Excuse me. So that's S-A-G-E underscore G-E-N E-T-I-X at Instagram. Shout out to J T and the wonderful, wonderful bouquet and buffets that are available to Dr. Bond and the Chronicles crew. Shout out to the Chronicles crew. Uh miss you, Wild Bill, miss you, JQ. Uh, shout out to YK. I have um had so many really cool co-hosts and partners in this game and this um cannabis chronicles thing. So shout out to YK, shout out to Naisha, shout out to I'm Different, aka D nice, shout out to Adika, going back, shout out to Ty, going back to the very, very first shoot, going back to BJ. Uh, BJ was the uh host who was on the on the um show with me. Because yes, I realized this, fam. I realized this. We actually had a show on the day, you may have heard me refer to this day um on the parade with uh we were with um Canadaware, and that was the day that we were marching on it was the first, like the first May Day parade after uh then Governor Cuomo signed the bill making cannabis making cannabis legal to possess, to consume, uh in New York State. And I actually did the show, and I need to go and do my research because as I said, I dropped the paperwork, I am the host, I am the talent, I am the background, and I am the gopher. So I need to find that information. It'd be great, but I know, I know, I know for sure. Um, if you look at the history of, and actually I believe, I know it's on this, uh it's just on this platform. Speaking of platforms, you know, we are record this here, and but we also have it on the other platforms, and you can check us on our podcast, and the podcasts are available on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartPodcast, Podcast Index, YouTube, and the Mothership Connection. The one and only, the original or the mothership, is Buzz Sprout. So check us out on those platforms if you don't get a chance to join us today and leave a question or a bubble. Know that you can check us out on those platforms. All right, Canada Fam, let's let's take a puff of this on the from a perspective. So in the culture, Tourette syndrome has long been misunderstood in popular culture. As I said, I'm still I need to I I want to find out, I'm gonna follow up on this next week about what has happened since that uh incident because uh from my understanding, there was no apology from the um from the awards company or from the awards, and uh there was up to that point there was no apology from the individual. You know, so I mean I yeah, you know, people have been, you know, people have been ridiculed for Tourette syndrome because it's often reduced to jokes, stereotypes, and exaggerated portrayals. But those, but those people, those are real people, you know, and so for those people living with it's not an entertainment, it's everyday life. So I, you know, I want to know like how you know you feel about this. So if you want to leave me some, uh, don't forget you can leave fan mail on our Buzz Sprouts channel and just let us know how you feel, and I will follow up on the following show. So we are seeing more awareness around neurological diversity, mental health, and acceptance. All of those bullet points are things that cannabis has been shown to help based on you know the research that's going on. Um investigators later produced, and this is another part of the story, later uh investigators later conducted a second randomized double blind test involving 24 participants, administered daily doses of 10 milligrams of THC over a six-week period. Researchers reported that researchers reported that subjects experienced a significant reduction in ticks following long-term cannabinoid use and suffered no detrimental effects on learning, recall, or verbal memory. A trend towards significant improvement towards verbal memory, span, uh span during and after therapy was also observed. And now it's like a subject. 2000 reviews shows that the pubs is in the journal of expert opinions in pharmacology or excuse me, pharma therapy reported that adults with Tourette syndrome with Delta 9 should be tried. Uh excuse me, therapy with Delta 9 TAT should be tried, tried if well-established drugs either fail to improve the ticks or cause significant adverse effects. Again, those medications they may improve you, but I mean, how many of us hasn't seen? I mean, there's a uh increase, increase, increase of um uh uh uh uh commercials talking about the medications. And I mean, I was saying to Miss A, every everyone is like, you know, you could the risk of this medication is death. Like, okay, so yeah, you have to re I think they all have to report that because this is this is my uh limited knowledge of this. So say there are 200 people in this test for this particular medication. Now, when they say it caught it may cost this, it may cost that, it may cost this, it may cost that, and a long list, during that trial, if an individual had a because those individuals have to report everything that happens to them every single day while they're taking that medication, with no exceptions. So even if the medication didn't cause the diarrhea, even if the medication didn't cause the constipation, even if the medication didn't cause the death, because that person is in that trial and that happened and they reported that, they have to report those possible side effects because there's no way for them to see or predict how a person is going to react from that medication. So that is their safety net, that is their ability to be able to protect themselves from being prosecuted. So I don't know about you, but I love me a natural product. And as I said many times before, I have, you know, I have fallen into something, I have I'm into something that, like I said, a lot of people would love to do. And but not only that, I loved it before I became involved in it as heavily as I am. So as my dad says, if you do, if you work in something you love, then you never work a day in your life. Matter of fact, shout out to dad. I called him today, but he was sleeping, so I talked to mom. Shout out to you, Mama Dynamite, love you, girl. Oh daddy down shit. That's you know, uh, my dad found love again. Um got remarried. Uh my mom is on the other side, so she's checking me out and she's here with me. Shout out to mom and my siblings. And um so uh we are the cannabis chronicles, and so I guess I said that to say that you know, many families have different relationships with cannabis. Some people have uh open positive relationships, some people have open, negative relationships with cannabis. And cannabis is interesting, it's it's entering the conversation carefully. So we are here to help build that conversation. Not a shortcut, not as a shortcut, but part of a broader discussion, part of a broader, larger conversation, not with just Dr. Bond, but with real doctors. Yeah, they're taking time to give you the um the lowdown. I am not a doctor, I am not your doctor, I just play a doctor on this particular show. So, all right, first again, let's shout out some more of our friends of the show. Shout out to Canadaware Society, Grizz, Abe, and everyone on that team. Um, let me tell you, the Canadaware Society is one of those places where you could do if you have a desire to do a certain thing in this cannabis space, then I'm pretty sure you could find a way to do that with Canadaware. Um can check them out online and you can see that this is really, really, a, really, really a thing. We are the Can Aware Society. Yes, I said we are, because I am a I love this place. I love Canadaware. Cannaware.org. So that's C-A-N-N-A-W-A-R-E.org and join the Can Aware United Network and be part of the boots on the ground, be part of our platoons. Say a shout out to the general. I call Grizzly the General because, you know, uh, man had just wears so many hats and does so many things. So, you know, and the way he holds it down, he is definitely running it as a general. And also, shout out to our friends at Chill Pipes. Uh, you can check them out at chillstore.com. Justin and the crew. Uh love the love the uh, I mean, just so many things. It's not just bombs, it's not just uh water pipes, it's not just this. There's so many. There's dab rigs and and and accessories and all kinds of things that I just can't even describe. And also, I have this really cool case that I have, like several of them, um, where they're smellproof, they're lockable, you can't open them, and you can store your cannabis in them. They got all that kind of stuff. I love those. I'm a person who loves like um that kind of stuff. I love like uh bags and uh accessories like that stuff. And and uh always did, I always had like uh my grandmother used to say that Jeffrey, you have a thing for every place, and every place has its thing. And it literally, literally is how I get down. Hey, I'm your boy, Dr. Bond. We are the Cannabis Chronicles, we are weekly candid cannabis community conversation. We chop it up and we're chopping it, chopping it up about our friends at Cannabis Society, Cho Pipes, but also we're also talking about Tourette's syndrome. So let's take another prep, let's take another puff on perspective. So Tourette's syndrome, which you don't know, is it's rooted in brain signaling, and it involves disruptions in motor control, neurological communication, and dopamine regulation. So some studies have cannabinoids in relation to Tourette's syndrome, particularly how they may influence tick severity, neurological neurological signaling, and overall balance in the nervous system. A 2003 review of the data published by uh therapists with uh oh, I read this already, failed to improve. Okay. So what it's saying is this this this uh this uh study was saying even when you have well-established medications, pharmaceutical medications, and they're not working, the doctor is suggesting that folks try cannabis. In 2020 2016, a study reported that twice daily administration of cannabinoid extracts in a patient with treatment um with treatment resistant to Red Syndrome was associated with an 85% reduction in the subject's motor ticks and a 90% reduction in vocal ticks. Authors concluded our results supports previous research suggesting that cannabines are safe and effective treatment for Tourette syndrome and should be considered in treatment resistant cases. So this isn't this isn't your boy doc, this isn't your boy doc uh talking to you. I'm talking to you from um place of experience. Like I said, I've helped thousands of patients. Um don't don't think I've ever helped anyone with Tourette syndrome, but who knows I may have. And they just never said that. But again, I have helped thousands of patients, and I know if you have a question, please feel free to reach out to me and ask me because you know, I'm here. You know, I'm here. But I want to say this cultural thing. Shout out because it is the past 420. Shout out to all the people who indulge in and enjoy cannabis and enjoyed 420. I remember when 420 was something everybody didn't know, it was just an exclusive party where just knowing the number didn't get you into the place. All right. So we are at the cannabis chronicles. Uh, some studies have explored cannabinoids in relation with Terrett's syndrome, particularly how they may influence tick severity, neurological signaling, and overall balance in the neurological and the nervous system. So, as I said, those studies that I read are showing that those things and cannabis are helping with those things. So the key takeaway to that is that cannabinoid systems play a role. Well, excuse me, the endoc, excuse me, the endocannabinoid system plays a role in regulating movement, managing stress responses, and supporting neurological balances. Going back to tick severity, neurological signaling, and overall balance in the nervous system. So, I mean, folks, this is the key. This is the key for me. Now, for me, pharmaceutical medications, they have their place. Absolutely, absolutely positively. Never would say that cannabis is snake oil, never been a snake oil salesman. It is not a cure, but it is an alternative. It is a help. It is a something you could use in conjunction, obviously, with your medications, but obviously you're going to use that in uh obviously with relationship to your physician, your primary care physician. Um, and if you can't don't want to talk to your doctor or you you can't reach them, talk to your pharmacist. And if you can't reach your doctor or your pharmacist, tune into the show Wednesday night. Come on the app, come on the app, join the stereo app so that you can answer questions in real time and not wait around for the next week and the week after that. So um, friends of the show, Living Soil DMV, um, MDV, excuse me, DMV. That's obviously in my head because I want to I gotta change my, I gotta update my driver's license because it's the time to do that. So Living Soil Gaetano and his team um reaching out, gonna reach out to you tomorrow, man. Matter of fact, you're on my call list. I want to see how you're doing and let you know that you are still a friend of the show. Uh they had an event a couple of weeks ago, 11 days ago, and I want to find out how it was. So shout out to him. Uh BuzzFeed Weekly. Uh BuzzFeedweekly.com, Buzzfeed.com. That's where you can check out all kinds of cool things from our friend Justin and his team. Yes, not only does he have the um, not only does he have the uh chill pipes, but yes, he is the one and only person, and well, not one and only person, but the person behind um Bud's feed. And if you want to check out a really good magazine, right at the same time as you're checking out Best Buds magazine, you can check them out. And if you want to check talking about checking out, you can check us out on our platforms. We are on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartPycast, Podcast Index, Buzz Sprout, and YouTube. Cannabis is not a cure for Tourette syndrome, but it is part of an evolving conversation around it. You can manage your symptoms with it, you can reduce the stress with it. I can't imagine, you know, how stressful having Tourette syndrome is. And my number one thing, and the thing that I talk about all the time, the quality of life. Quality of life. Because if there's no cure for Tourette's syndrome, then we have to make sure that we improve the quality of life of those people. Give them symptom management, give them stress reduction. Again, shout out to the friends of the show, Living Soil MDV, and Buzz Buzz Feed. Bud Feed Weekly, excuse me. All right, Canada fam, let's take another puff of perspective. Now, cannabis is more than a product, it is a conversation, our conversation. And when it comes to conditions like Tourette syndrome, that conversation is still developing. We are still learning. We are still learning. We are the cannabis chronicles. I'm your boy, Dr. Bong. Uh, weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation. We talk about medical cannabis. Today's subject is Tourette's syndrome. So, uh let's see. It is about a quarter of the hour. Shout out to our friends at Happy Monkey. Um, been uh seeing a lot of things, and congratulations on the reopening of the dispensary in Brooklyn. Uh shut down for a little while, but they are Up and running. So if you're in Brooklyn or you're in uh Washington Heights, I think is uh Dykeman, 151 Dykeman, and I'm not sure of the um the address for the Brooklyn uh spot, but Cappy Monkey as uh I've shouted them out many times on many different platforms. First piece of swag I ever got was from those guys. Shout out to Ray, shout out to uh shout out to Vlad and everybody else at the both uh both establishments uh because they do it not for the clout, but for the culture. And I gotta say, you know, that aligns very well with what we do here at the best at uh cannabis chronicles and best buzz magazine and star enterprises. We are all under and we are part of the all part of the same family. So our potpourri, uh I guess uh for me, as I said, I remember when 420 and it was our thing. It was um a little secret. And you know, the past couple of years, because I work in the cannabis industry, I'm seeing 420 sales. I wonder how hardly they work because last year I didn't this year I didn't work with them. Uh last year we busted our butts. We had uh we had a line around the corner, and um then it was really, really busy in the morning, and then it got really, really slow at the end at the middle of the day, and it got really, really busy at the end of the day. And because I was a closer, it was really, really busy. So shout out to all the workers and all the dispensaries, because if it was as busy as it was last year, then it was very, very, very busy. I am your boy, Dr. Bond. We are weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation. We are the Cannabis Chronicles. So we are still learning. We are still learning about this wonderful thing. We are still learning about this wonderful thing, cannabis, the medical conditions, and the uh improvement of the quality of life. So from misunderstanding to awareness, from awareness to informed discussions, and that's what we want to have. We want to have informed discussions. We want that's this is the platform for that. This is the platform for those discussions. Uh, my guests many times are medical cannabis patients. Joseph JQ is a medical cannabis patient, while Bill Waffert is a medical cannabis patient. These are people that I met and through the medical cannabis space and wanted to share their story. They wanted to share their story with you. So we that's what we do. We bring those patients and we bring those on and we um share that and share their stories, and hopefully, in that we can help somebody else. We can help somebody who may not have a relationship with their physician, who may not want to have that conversation with their physician. And for me, I'll be that proxy, I'll be that person who you don't have to be nervous about talking about cannabis with. Many people are uncomfortable talking about their physicians because there's an air of people get uncomfortable talking to their physicians because that relationship is so personal. I mean, that person knows everything about you. Like, how many people like how many people have a relationship, like your physician knows how much you weigh, or what your blood pressure is, or what your condition are, if you have cancer, or if you don't have cancer. So a lot of times in that people lose the fact that this person is just a person, and it's important for you as a patient to be as learned as you possibly can. We are the cannabis chronicles. I am your boy, Dr. Bond. We are weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation. I did a story a few years ago on the Waldos, and the Waldos were the guys who started 420. Oh, oh, snap! And today is Earth Day. Happy Earth Day. Today is Earth Day, actually. Um, it's always between 420 and Earth Day. I remember, and happy Earth Day, Mother Earth. Um, I remember when I was a little kid, and I was in a frick school, so that was a long time ago. And I remember that it was the first Earth Day. And I remember um we walked to this park. It was only not only a block, two blocks, maybe a block and a half from our school, now looking at it. Then we were a little kid, it was so much space, it was so far as an adult. I was like, oh my God, that's only how that's that's only how far we was. That wasn't far at all when I grew up and realize the difference or the distance between my school. But I remember, you know, there was the principal and people who were dignitaries and folks who were involved with um the Earth Day project, and they made all these promises to all these little kids. And so I'm not even gonna say I was 10 because I wasn't. Um so I'm gonna say six, first grade. Um guess when I went to first grade. So my first grade, so I was six years old. So I'm just gonna round up. So that was 50 something years ago. And I don't think we treated the earth any better. I don't think we do today. I don't think, and to be honest with you, it didn't start, it didn't get really, really popular until I was a grown man. So just think of the the the oh gee, the um the effect that we had on the earth in in the time, in that time, in the between time between we actually did something and knew something about knew about Earth Day, but actually started to do something about it. Earth Day, Earth Day 2026. Thank you so much, Earth, Mother Earth. So we are the Cannabis Chronicles. I am your boy, Dr. Bung, Weekly Candid Cannabis Community Conversation. Uh, today's subject is Tourette syndrome, and we're talking about um this condition that as I said, uh many, many people suffer from. About a hundred thousand people in the United States. And so we started talking about this earlier, and I just wanted to touch on it. Um I have a healthcare background before I got involved with medical candidates. Um and so many people, you know, look at life and don't realize how short it is, you know, and sometimes folks are always so busy and I promised that I was going to advocate for people who have are in palliative care and hospice care. And the early iterations of my um medical of my cannabis, excuse me, my medical career, I worked in a nursing home. Loved it. Loved the people. I love the residents, had a really good time doing that job and in that career space. But the thing that really used to bug me out was that unfortunately folks were going to die. And I and had you know, I I had significant loss as a child, so I've never really dealt very well with uh with death, but it's so it affected me. So one of the residents, this wonderful lady, and she was just so full of life. And to think about somebody and to talk about this person in the past is because she was so full of life. Like I remember when folks would come to the nursing home and they were a little nervous about their situation, their living situation. They had gone and left their homes, and were now living, you know, in this nursing home. And this wonderful woman was so open and so loving to folks, embracing her. But anyway, as her time ran out, I like I said, I hadn't developed a friendship with this person, and we were so I always used to see her, and she knew me, and we always spoke and told jokes and different kinds of stuff. But as people deteriorate, then you'd obviously see them less and less. So we didn't see her in her wheelchair greeting people, you know, doing the bingos and all the group activities that they had at the nursing home. And but what was replaced by like these, like, after a few days, were like these screams, these blood-curdling screams, and you know, it's like, oh, why I'm just feeling so bad for her because she was in such pain. So then the nurses, you know, we all talked and they were not really, they didn't, you know, they didn't console me, they didn't ask me or consult me. But through the grave family heard, and I heard this thing called comfort measures, how we're gonna use comfort measures to improve the quality of life. So I was like, okay, you know, and in my head, I'm thinking, oh, what are they gonna do? And you know, I subconscious took over and it's like, oh, fluff up the pillows and you know, that kind of stuff. So finally I asked, you know, a friend of mine who's a nurse, and they said, um, well, basically, and they were not a proponent of that, they were against it. And they said that, you know, what happens is um you fill these people up with a lot of medications to, and she knew exactly what I was talking about, um, and she knew exactly who I was concerned about. And she's like, case in point, this person. Like, you remember how she was, you know, you heard these screams, and and that was that's like well, that's how I started to, you know, that's where I um the end-of-life conversation sparked with me. So basically, they explained to me that it could be you look at that two different ways. Are they comfort measures for the individual who's in the bed, or are they the comfort measures for the people who are around that person? And so we um we learn and we go through. So, what I learned is that with improvement, well, excuse me, with the implementation of cannabis, medical cannabis, those individuals were less likely to have to use as higher dosage of opioids of the medications that were prescribed for them, for their comfort measures. Those things were um less less necessary. So then that person was no longer in an incoherent state. You know, they could be lucid and they could be articulate and they could have conversations with their loved ones and they could tell people, oh, by the way, I have a policy, or I there's a brother or a sister, or I want to say I'm sorry, I love you, I hate you, whatever. But if you don't have that opportunity, then you don't have that opportunity. So when you introduce medical cannabis to those folks, they have the opportunity. They have the opportunity to share their love with their loved ones. So, no, there ain't any answers yet, not answers yet, but the questions are better with medical cannabis, with Tourette syndrome, with HIV and AIDS, with all the conditions that we talked about this month, with the GI disorders, hunting disdisease, and next we're going to talk about something that's close to my heart, something that I live with and deal with every single day. Sleep apnea. So we don't just talk, we don't just do this show because I want to hear myself talk. Because without a co-host, without friends, without interjection, that's what I'm gonna do. That's what I'm gonna do every week until I can't do this anymore. And I'm not gonna, I got one, I'm not gonna ever need to feel that way. So I'm here. I appreciate all of you. I appreciate the fans, the friends of the show. I appreciate when folks go, oh man, that's Dr. Bond. Hey, Dr. Bond, I love the show. And I'm like, I didn't see you on the show, but then I realized, like I said, uh, shout out to executive producer Emma, Emma Star, my daughter. She said, Dad, people don't do that. People don't tune in like they tuned into the Ed Sullivan show every Sunday night. Everybody turned on, and I just dated myself. And trust me, I didn't even watch the Ed Sullivan show. That shit was older than me. But there was times when folks sat down together and watched one particular program or listened to one particular program because yeah, there was a time when it was just radio. Folks don't digest their information that way. That's why we're at platforms, that's why we're at different platforms, that's why we have different places where you can reach us at. Um, where is that? Speaking of platforms, I'm looking for my platform card. You can find us on these platforms. You can find us on uh where's that card? And guess what? It is not here. Um, you can check us out on different platforms. Where we at? Where are we at? Where are we at? Where's the platform cards? Uh no, we got y'all doing it this way. So you can take us out on uh Spotify, Apple, BuzzSprout, Podcast Index, and whatever you choose to digest your podcast. Shout out to Big Gas Dispensary, shout out to Penn Game Publishing, um, biggest dispensary.com. And if you're in if you're in um uh new pulse, New York, you can check them out. Uh tell them you love the show and you want to check out our friend Reem and see if he's there. Shout out to Penn Game Publishing, Nyla and the number garden going up, up, up. Check them out on Amazon Books. If you want to introduce the loved ones, your young uh family members to a love of books, but also giving them a um uh how do how do I put this? They they merged the two worlds together very, very, very well. DC and the writers put together a really, really, really good book, and you will love it. Um, our cultivar spotlight this week was AC DC. Profile is high in C B D, low in THC. Very non-intoxicating, but it does calm. Often discussed in conversations about reduced anxiety, clear head focus, and daytime use. Clarity without the noise. Thread syndrome, fam, is so complex and it's often so misunderstood. But conversations like ours help lift the perspective from assumption to understanding. This is the cannabis chronicles. I'm Dr. Bong. Stay informed, stay intentional, stay lifted responsibly, and always remember cannabis is holistic medicine. As we go out of the show, don't rock the boat. Good night, friends, good night, don't you?