Book Review: ‘The Cannabis Health Index’

Book explores 100 different conditions and diseases that can be treated with cannabis. There was a time when cannabis books were, few and far between. They consisted mainly of cultivation books (almost all of them authored by Ed Rosenthal), a few cooking with cannabis titles and autobiographies of drug dealers. Then came the period where medical cannabis books began to appear but they were so outrageously priced that no one could afford them. But times have changed. At the recent 11th National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Berkeley, California the conference bookstore was overflowing with titles on all aspects of cannabis and, in particular, medical cannabis. Some authors, it seems, have seen the writing on the wall and anticipate the day when cannabis textbooks will be needed for budding (pardon the pun) cannabis clinicians. A handful of colleges have begun to teach students about the endogenous cannabinoid system (ECS) and a smaller number are offering cannabis certification courses. Students need books and authors like Uwe Blesching are writing them. Blesching’s book, “The Cannabis Health Index,” is 600+ pages and priced affordably at $24.95. It is an excellent resource. Blesching has painstakingly reviewed the literature and compiled a cannabis health index score, a CHI, for 100 various diseases and conditions that can be treated with cannabis. Blesching describes the CHI as “an evidence-based rating system that shows degrees of confidence in cannabis as an effective treatment for a specific condition.” The CHI score is complex. Blesching reviewed more than 1,000…

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