High Sobriety, a \u201cmarijuana-friendly\u201d rehab center in Los Angeles where cannabis was both a tool and a reward for people struggling with addictions to opiates, alcohol and other drugs, has recently faced challenges and undergone quite a shake-up.<\/p>\n
Joe Schrank, High Sobriety\u2019s founder, has left the rehab center and relocated to San Francisco, where he\u2019s opened a similar facility that he\u2019s named Remedy Recovery. High Sobriety now has a new director with a new philosophy that contradicts its founding principles, which originally asserted that cannabis is an \u201cexit\u201d and not a gateway drug.<\/p>\n
What happened? It appears that\u00a0High Sobriety<\/a>\u00a0had\u00a0too much weed<\/a>\u00a0for anyone\u2019s good.<\/p>\n \u201cHarm reduction\u201d is the practice of allowing someone prone to abuse substances to do so \u2014 as long as the substances in question are less harmful. Think of the classic trope of an Alcoholics Anonymous attendee chain-smoking cigarettes while slurping his sixth cup of coffee.<\/p>\n High Sobriety\u2019s initial promise was that patients struggling with heroin or alcohol problems would be allowed to consume cannabis \u2014 and apparently, as much cannabis as they wanted.<\/p>\n Until recently, visits to High Sobriety\u2019s campus involved \u201cwalking into a cloud of smoke,\u201d according to Sherry Yafai, a licensed physician and member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, who recently took over as the facility\u2019s director of research and development,\u00a0in an interview with Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n They were, in a few words, too high \u2014 too high to communicate, too high to deal with underlying issues like depression or trauma that led to their substance-abuse problem in the first place, too high to function. Yafai has put an end to this excess.<\/p>\n Now, someone paying up to $40,000 a month for one of the 24 beds at High Sobriety\u2019s Culver City location has to go through 30 days completely substance-free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Only after that 30-day detox period can they use cannabis oil, topicals or edibles \u2014 no smoked marijuana allowed, ever \u2014 and only that after a consultation and written recommendation from Yafai.<\/p>\n In the meantime, it appears Schrank is holding fast to the theory of marijuana-friendly rehab.\u00a0Remedy Recovery<\/a>, his new \u201cboutique facility\u201d in San Francisco\u2019s South of Market district \u2014 a turbulent place, with high-end condos and startups taking up warehouse space next to single-room occupancy hotels, homeless encampments\u00a0and shelters, and the city\u2019s Skid Row \u2014 has the same philosophy once in place at High Sobriety: \u201cCome here and get baked for a while, and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with Freedom Leaf<\/a>, Schrank reiterated his commitment to alternative rehab therapy that strays away from traditional \u201cabstinence-first\u201d substance-abuse treatment routines. Here, he\u2019s in accord with Yafai, who, after watching patients cycle through addiction-sobriety-addiction endlessly, realized that there \u201chad to be a better way to help patients achieve and maintain their sobriety.\u201d But here\u2019s the schism: Schrank believes that if someone addicted to heroin wants to dab all day instead, you should let them.<\/p>\n \u201cAs recovery professionals, we\u2019re supposed to be non-judgmental and compassionate, to believe in progress, not perfection,\u201d he told Freedom Leaf. \u201cIn my view, giving up heroin for cannabis is a progression.\u201d<\/p>\n Remedy Recovery currently has six patients who live in an apartment complex near the company\u2019s new headquarters in San Francisco. For now, he said, they, too, will be allowed to get stoned all day long should they so choose. But he has instituted at least one innovation: Remedy Recovery will now have a licensed physician on-site writing recommendations, something that High Sobriety lacked until Yafai came on board.<\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>, do you think marijuana use should be allowed in rehab facilities?<\/p>\n The post How Much Marijuana Is Too Much at \u2018Marijuana Friendly\u2019 Rehab?<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
High Sobriety, a \u201cmarijuana-friendly\u201d rehab center in Los Angeles where cannabis was both a tool and a reward for people struggling with addictions to opiates, alcohol and other drugs, has recently faced challenges and undergone quite a shake-up. Joe Schrank, High Sobriety\u2019s founder, has left the rehab center and relocatedContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[148,50,99,5038,488,2089,738,5039,151,5040],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28013,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions\/28013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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