Special Issue - Issue 122.1

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Ushering in Natural Medicine: An Interview with Charlie Piermarini By Victoria Cook and Brianna Connors

Devil's lettuce, weed, pot - all of these names are associated with recreational marijuana and often carry unhelpful negative stigmas associated

with

medical

cannabis.

Enter

Charlie Piermarini . Piermarini

actively

promotes

holistic

education and healthcare utilizing natural medicine,

focusing

on

medical

CBD

(cannabidiol). He is a PA, co-founder of The Healing Joint and Integrative Medicine, and founder of Restorative CBD. He has three Masters in Physiology, Public Health, and Physician Assistant Sciences. Piermarini remembers what he first thought of

marijuana

medicinal

before

benefits

of

learning

about

marijuana's

the

cousin,

hemp. "I thought people were just trying to get high," he said. "They [medical schools] don't

teach

us

anything

about

the

endocannabinoid system, so I researched it and started learning what I could."

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