Protocols for Legal Cannabis Therapy in Assisted Living Homes

Timothy Tipton is a well known man in the world of Cannabis that has given so much to the movement it's hard to keep up with his accomplishments. This booklet we wandered across today was written a decade ago by the Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) of the Phoenix Tears Foundation, and Executive Producer of the Run from the Cure 2 documentary. Tipton has such an extensive background it's impossible to document it in a bio – he is the host of the COLORADO WE CANnabis RADIO show, a member of the Compassionate Coalition national board of directors, and the founder of the Rocky Mountain Caregivers Cooperative in Colorado.

Formerly, Mr. Tipton was a court-appointed appeal bond supervisor in Larimer County, Colorado. He was also an instructor at the Cannabis Therapy Institute at one time as well. In 2013, Boulder Hospital and the George Karl Foundation awarded Mr. Tipton with the BStrong Ride Extra Mile Caregiver award. Today we're taking a look at some of the intense work he did in 2010. I can't reprint it as he's got it copyrighted and rightfully so – but we'll give you the link and this introduction that says "READ THIS: It's an important part of cannabis history, it's a guideline many should be considering a decade later in states that are just legalizing, and it's one heck of a write up that deserves to be read. Spending hours in this publication today even taught me a thing or two!

Policies, Procedures, and Protocols for Legal Cannabis Therapy in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes Throughout Colorado By Timothy Tipton

Timothy Tipton and Matthew Schnur

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Health care professionals in the new Millennium face extreme challenges associated with providing a greater level of care while facing historically exponentially declining budgets. This directly opposes most enhanced ‘quality of life’ efforts for those patients residing within multi-level care assisted living, hospice,and nursing home facilities as well as those facing home bound care circumstances.The purpose of this compendium of information resources is to help these same health care professionals with education that will, hopefully, overcome possible preconceived notions for a ‘clear path’ manner to identify various reasonable access procedures necessary to effectively allow legal cannabis therapy to take place at their facility.Although marijuana is still known to be illegal federally, there seems to be considerable shift in government focus away from prosecution and towards the enhancement of legitimate scientific research.

The 2007 United States Supreme Court Ruling U.S. vs. Lopez goes far to explain how no entity should be ‘hiding’ their policies under the guise of Gone are the days of Tommy Chong’s “Up in Smoke” marijuana smoking, replaced with modern medical philosophy’s which incorporate an inherently healthier methodology such as vaporization, while also engaging the individual patient in a wide range of opportunities for varied methods of transmission,including but not limited to edibles.This offering is best described as a compendium of work from professionals across the globe, including nurses, doctors, lawyers, scientists, and others who have worked tirelessly towards the development of this resource. We thank them all. These times call for health care professionals to embrace a more compassionate holistic approach of complimentary therapies which lay a solid foundation for effective legal cannabis therapy in the Rocky Mountain State.

Your patients enhanced quality of life is the ‘Win’. At best, this legal cannabis therapy goes far to keep patients minimizing their use of ‘life robbing’ synthetic prescription and narcotic drugs. Although it is a considerably more complex evolution to a homeopathic way, the concept of further minimizing pill intake ‘across the board’ in patients is a challenge which can garner big dividends for both patients and staff."Especially for patients with…a compromised appetite, with nausea and vomiting, with pain and, hey, you know, a little bit of euphoria isn't bad if you're dying,” said Dr. Donald Abrhams, M.D., speaking about the benefits of effective legal cannabis therapy.

According to Doctor Lester Grinspoon, emeritus professor, Harvard Medical School, "Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe, safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug." COPYRIGHT 2010 by: Timothy Tipton Read the balance on his link at Academia.edu

An entire guide is located HERE – Tipton's work is remarkable to say the least.

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