Aaron Boster

And so at first I said no.

Then something really weird happened.

I had a dear patient of mine in her 70s who is a teetotaler who said in confidence, Dr. B, my grandson, he gave me a doobie, and if I smoke the doobie, I don't need your medicine.

I don't have spasticity.

And I thought, that's weird.

And then I had another 70-something tell me the exact same thing.

And so over several months, they all happened to be older women, were confiding in me that they were sleeping better through the night, they weren't having spasticity, they weren't having pain, all because they were using cannabis.

And so I went back to the literature and I looked at it again and it hadn't gotten any better.

Right.

But I decided that I would believe my patients because I don't think they all got into like a sewing circle and said, let's all lie to Aaron and tell him all the same lie.

So I went through the process of becoming a medical marijuana recommender.

And now I've been recommending for several years.

And I feel very strongly a couple of things.

Number one, it doesn't slow down MS.

So I'm not recommending that you use cannabis instead of disease modification.

But as you pointed out, as it relates to symptoms, there are certain symptoms that are very well treated by cannabis.

For example, spasticity in MS, which is very common in MS, is probably one of the most robust symptoms.

symptoms that have been studied and works very well.

So you can use cannabinoids to help with spasticity, neuropathic pain.

How do they work?