Ziva Cooper

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Okay, my buds, prepare to understand the draw or the caution around a substance that has calmed the nerves, stimulated the mind, and boiled the blood of so many millions of people for millennia.

We're going to chat about edibles versus pre-rolls, hash versus keef, CBD, CBN, CBG, THC, THCV, ADHD, psychosis, your dad's grass versus the modern stuff.

inflammation, over-the-counter cannabinoids, garden variety chemovirus, brain receptors, cancer therapeutics, addiction, withdrawal, the munchies, schedule one, incarceration, legalization, titration, addiction, medical uses, hash dabs, shatters, strains, so much more with scientists, scholars, and academics, cannabinologist at Smith College, anthropologist Dr. Caroline Mellie, and UCLA researcher and cannabinologist Dr. Ziva Cooper.

My name is Ziva Cooper.

She hurts.

So this is a dream come true.

The fact that I'm sitting in a room with you, I have wanted to interview you for so many years.