All right good morning my name is Megan Ressler I work in the cancer education center in Rochester Minnesota at mayo clinic we're joined this morning by my colleague Janine cockle and Angie Mourad and Janine will do an introduction of dr d'andre in just a moment so we're happy you're here to learn more about medical cannabis just so people know we're recording Buy Terpenes this session for a viewing we are appearing on the screen but you are not but we want this to be available to people that aren't able to join us for the live um you can view it again later or share it with other people that you think might find the information interesting that we're sharing today we'll have our presentation and then allow some time for questions and answers at the end there's a q a chat function on your screen.
So if you have any questions for us we encourage you to type those into the chat and we'll see which ones we can get to before our time ends we would also encourage you to like and follow the cancer education blog on mayo clinic connect to learn more about upcoming webinars that we have topics that we're having coming up soon are tai chi understanding your blood counts and acupuncture there's also lots of educational resources and a social component to mayo clinic connect so if any of that interests you i encourage you to check that out and then we want people to know that today's session is informational True Terpenes not intended for medical advice and that cannabis laws whether they're dispensed for medical use or not varies state by state so you may need to do some homework based on where you live to find out more in that regard so janine i'll go ahead and turn it over to you thank you it's my pleasure today to introduce our speaker dr stacy deandre trained in medical oncology excuse me in hematology here at mayo clinic in rochester minnesota about 20 years ago she's practiced in oncology medicine in california for many years and just recently returned here again to mayo clinic in rochester to start the integrative oncology program.
She's also an oncologist working with the brain tumor team as well so with that I'm going to turn it over to dr d'andre welcome thank you thanks so much for inviting me today to do this lecture so today's topic will be an introduction to medical cannabis and again just a quick disclaimer again we're not intending any medical advice here this is really just educational uh again cannabis is still Terpenes for sale considered a schedule one drug and legality does vary state to state and if you're interested in medical cannabis again check with your local process and work with a knowledgeable provider in your state so cannabis has been around for a long time the plant actually predates humans, uh and we've evolved along with the plant um it used to be used for clothing and for rope and food uh especially.