Cannabis and bipolar disorder: What are the risks? What are the potential benefits? [5V_8SvuJHvw]
Webinar with Andrew Penn , RN, MS, NP, CNS, PMHNP-BC - Associate Clinical Professor - University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City, CA
This introduction to the clinical science of cannabinoids will focus on helping learners to understand why cannabis effects the brain, the research into cannabinoids as a therapeutic compounds, the risks of unregulated cannabis use (with a focus on bipolar and psychotic disorders), and what we still need to learn about this complicated drug.
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