Dr. Lisa Gardner has made it her mission to spread the word about the benefits of medicinal marijuana. The Fort Worth physician worked for years as a traditional OBGYN but became disillusioned by the industry and dependence on pharmaceuticals and wanted to move into more preventative and holistic care.
“I felt very empty. Wow, I did 20 years of this? This is it?” she thought. “This is just writing Xanax and Ambien and doing pap smears, then it’s see you in a year.” She decided to switch gears, and today she owns a preventative medicine practice and a business that offers CBD products and is a drop-off location for Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TXOG), one of the few medicinal cannabis legal dispensaries in Texas.
She wants medical cannabis to be normalized and professionalized and for providers and patients to be aware of its effectiveness and application.
As of September 1, all cancer patients and those with PTSD are eligible to be prescribed medicinal cannabis. That means there are millions more Texans that are eligible, but many are unaware of the changes in the law as well as the potential for medicinal marijuana, Gardner says.
She continues to spread the word and advocate for the continued expansion of diagnoses, particularly those with chronic pain. She has patients with chronic pain who have cannabis products shipped from Colorado or who travel to Oklahoma to access medicinal cannabis for chronic pain. One in ten Oklahomans has a medicinal…
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Dr. Lisa Gardner has made it her mission to spread the word about the benefits of medicinal marijuana. The Fort Worth physician worked for years as a traditional OBGYN but became disillusioned by the industry and dependence on pharmaceuticals and wanted to move into more preventative and holistic care.
“I felt very empty. Wow, I did 20 years of this? This is it?” she thought. “This is just writing Xanax and Ambien and doing pap smears, then it’s see you in a year.” She decided to switch gears, and today she owns a preventative medicine practice and a business that offers CBD products and is a drop-off location for Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TXOG), one of the few medicinal cannabis legal dispensaries in Texas.
She wants medical cannabis to be normalized and professionalized and for providers and patients to be aware of its effectiveness and application.
As of September 1, all cancer patients and those with PTSD are eligible to be prescribed medicinal cannabis. That means there are millions more Texans that are eligible, but many are unaware of the changes in the law as well as the potential for medicinal marijuana, Gardner says.
She continues to spread the word and advocate for the continued expansion of diagnoses, particularly those with chronic pain. She has patients with chronic pain who have cannabis products shipped from Colorado or who travel to Oklahoma to access medicinal cannabis for chronic pain. One in ten Oklahomans has a medicinal…
