Cannabis drug interactions, with Dr. Roni Sharon

When you go to the pharmacy to fill a prescription, the pharmacist checks to see if there could be any adverse drug interactions. Your doctor usually does the same. Do we need to be treating medical marijuana similarly? And who should be responsible?Dr. Roni Sharon speaks about how cannabis interacts with other medications, how he monitors his patients who use medical marijuana for drug interactions, and why treating cannabis like any other medication would solve many of the problems we face today.Host Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man asks Dr. Sharon about whether cannabis interacts with antibiotics, antidepressants like SSRIs, blood pressure medications, and blood thinners.“Just like I start any patient on any medicine, sometimes there has to be dosage adjustments,” Dr. Sharon explains. “That’s true for cannabis, just like it’s true for another medicines.”Dr. Sharon also discusses dosing, patients who have no choice but to self-medicate because of cannabis prohibition, and his hopes for the future of medical marijuana.“I really hope that one day cannabis is just going to be like any other drug where the pharmacist checks other interactions before you get it,” he says.Produced, edited, and mixed by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man. Co-hosted by Elana Goldberg. Music by Desca.