We chatted with Dr. Rebecca Siegel to talk about her new book The Brain on Cannabis.
Siegel has been a practicing clinical psychiatrist for almost 15 years. The issue popped up on her radar four years ago while she was practicing in New York as medical marijuana became available.
“I grew up in the ‘80s. And I knew about the war on drugs, this is your brain on drugs, and all that stuff. And so, in my practice, I had a patient come to me and say cannabis saved her life,” Siegel told L.A. Weekly. “And I didn’t really understand what that meant. At that point.”
The patient had been suffering from a terrible bout with her insomnia. But she revealed to Siegel a cannabis-infused chocolate bar she’d purchased in Colorado with no prescription. The patient credited the bar with getting her off prescription sleep medicine. 
Siegel wondered immediately if she could help the patient further.
“Was I able to do this for her? And of course, I had no idea so, that was sort of where it began, the positive benefits of cannabis. And I decided I wanted to learn more,” she said of the path that would lead to her decision to write the book. “I decided somewhere along, early at that point, that I had to write a book. I knew that if I didn’t know enough, most people didn’t know enough.”
In addition to that, the idea of medical cannabis was rapidly expanding in the field from Europe to North America. She knew the work on the book would be proper preparation to answer…
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We chatted with Dr. Rebecca Siegel to talk about her new book The Brain on Cannabis.
Siegel has been a practicing clinical psychiatrist for almost 15 years. The issue popped up on her radar four years ago while she was practicing in New York as medical marijuana became available.
“I grew up in the ‘80s. And I knew about the war on drugs, this is your brain on drugs, and all that stuff. And so, in my practice, I had a patient come to me and say cannabis saved her life,” Siegel told L.A. Weekly. “And I didn’t really understand what that meant. At that point.”
The patient had been suffering from a terrible bout with her insomnia. But she revealed to Siegel a cannabis-infused chocolate bar she’d purchased in Colorado with no prescription. The patient credited the bar with getting her off prescription sleep medicine.
Siegel wondered immediately if she could help the patient further.
“Was I able to do this for her? And of course, I had no idea so, that was sort of where it began, the positive benefits of cannabis. And I decided I wanted to learn more,” she said of the path that would lead to her decision to write the book. “I decided somewhere along, early at that point, that I had to write a book. I knew that if I didn’t know enough, most people didn’t know enough.”
In addition to that, the idea of medical cannabis was rapidly expanding in the field from Europe to North America. She knew the work on the book would be proper preparation to answer…
