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Thursday, November 14th, 2019

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM - Herscher Hall, Guerin C

Medicine or Poison: How Well Do You Know Your Cannabis?

This panel will engage the audience in a scientific discussion of biomimicry and the cultivation of optimal medicine. Panelists will include prominent medicinal cannabis experts, living soil and sunlight scientists, and cultivators with experience spanning multiple legal markets. Cannabis is a bioaccumulator. What goes into the plant ends up in our bodies and our environment. Despite California’s relatively rigorous testing thresholds, the risks posed by the mass production and processing of synthetically grown, resource-intensive cannabis remain severe. According to recent surveys, around 80% of cannabis sold in legal North American markets is being grown under artificial light. In contrast, cultivation in alignment with nature, in sunlight and living soil, not only yields cleaner, higher quality medicine but also dramatically improves returns for investors. This panel will afford the audience the opportunity to engage with expert cultivators who have used these techniques to scale their cannabis businesses, and medical professionals using this healing medicine to help those who need it The future starts at Digital Hollywood with a discussion meant to educate and activate. This panel will be of particular interest to craft and high-end cultivators, medical professionals, and all those committed to contributing to a healthier world aligned with nature.

Sundarajan Mutialu, Chief Technology Officer and Co-CEO, AZENTIVE, Moderator

Tanner Budde, co-founder and former General Manager, Good Weed

Dr. Robb Flannery, CEO, Dr. Robb Farms

Dr. Paula B. Shore, D.O.

Dr. Robb Flannery, CEO, Dr. Robb Farms: Dr. Flannery holds a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from UC Davis with an emphasis in Environmental Horticulture and specific expertise in hydroponic crop optimization for cut-flower production. While working on his doctorate, Dr. Flanner began serving as an adviser on modern horticulture practices to cannabis cultivators throughout Northern California. In addition to ensuring high-quality product with his clean cannabis company, Dr. Robb Farms, Dr. Flannery remains active in the community, serving as a Chair of the Agriculture Committee for the California Cannabis Industry Association, a mentor at Gateway, a startup incubator focused on launching companies in the cannabis industry, and is an advisor to the Dean of Agricultural Sciences at UC Davis.

 

Dr. Paula B. Shore, D.O. is a medical cannabis specialist and holistic family medicine doctor. She graduated from an osteopathic medical school in Kansas City in 1990. She completed a family medicine residency at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Upper Darby, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia and then worked in an urgent care and family practice center. In 1998, Dr. Shore moved out to California, where she worked in urgent care. Sadly, practicing medicine was not what she had expected and so in 2003, Dr. Shore took a sabbatical from medicine, attending culinary school in NYC, and moving to Puerto Vallarta. In 2007, Dr. Shore returned to the States and mainstream medicine. Unfortunately, this became a cycle of prescribing medications, even writing prescriptions to counter the side effects of other prescriptions. This did not align with Dr. Shore’s wishes to practice holistically and to “first do no harm”. While waiting to start a job in hyperbaric medicine, Dr. Shore began doing medical marijuana recommendations; it turned out to be her niche. She read every article she could find; she ordered books off of the internet and devoured them between patients and each night after work. She stopped calling it ‘marijuana’ and referred to it only as cannabis because of the negative connotations and the history of the use of the word “marijuana” in this country. The benefits of using medical cannabis were undeniable. While she didn’t want to be the “pot doc” at first, Dr. Shore soon wanted to be known for her knowledge of the subject. In July 2011, Dr. Shore opened her own evaluation center in San Diego county. For a period of time, it was standing-room-only in the waiting room, with patients waiting up to 4 hours for Dr. Shore’s expertise. Self-taught, and with years of clinical experience, she has successfully treated chronic pain, eliminating the need for dangerous opiates and narcotics. During 8 1/2 years in practice, she has reversed dementia and Parkinson’s symptoms, halted seizures and MS symptoms, and has helped in recovery from TBI and CVA sequelae. Patients who chose only natural methods of treatment for cancer and autoimmune disorders were able to achieve remission. In those who wanted to incorporate cannabis into their conventional treatment, it proved to be an excellent adjunct. The proximity of Dr. Shore’s practice to Camp Pendleton allowed her to participate in the care of over 7000 patients with PTSD and not one of these patients was lost to suicide over this period of time. She is one of the very few cannabis specialists who are able to make strain-specific recommendations and design a regimen specific to each patient. Since early 2019, Dr. Shore began to concentrate her ongoing education to learn functional medicine and to incorporate it into her medical cannabis and alternative medicine practice. She is able to aid people in achieving optimal health using a combination of cannabis, alternative, and functional medicine modalities, and when necessary, conventional medicine. Through years of hands-on experience, Dr. Shore is able to assist patients in turning their lives around. How gratifying it is to reverse autoimmune disease, treat cancer and especially, to

control chronic pain and mental illness, in most cases without pills Dr. Shore makes herself available to patients through mobile visits, telehealth, and on-site in a few locations in southern California. She offers nationwide and worldwide consultations by phone or video chat. The joy of helping people to regain their health and freedom from illness is what was missing for Dr. Shore in traditional family medicine. She looks forward to guiding her patients towards better health with the safest and best alternatives…….naturally.

 

Tanner Budde is an experienced cultivation, management, and branding consultant who specializes in high-quality craft cannabis. He started his career with the famed Realm of Caring Foundation, where he worked directly with the Charlotte’s Web strain. Tanner’s eight-year professional field experience has been almost entirely in the medical marijuana industry, growing hundreds of cannabis strains, in both indoor and in greenhouse settings. His thoughtfully-implemented, minimal-input cultivation approach presents plentiful opportunities to lower cost, increase revenue, and improve the quality of your yields. Putting his passion for sustainability and organic growing front and center, Tanner is the co-founder and former General Manager of Good Weed; a successful vertically integrated small-batch, no-till, craft medical cannabis cultivation facility and dispensary. Tanner understands there are many misunderstandings about organic practices, and in his new role as a cultivation consultant, he is out to prove that sustainable systems are the smartest decision to remain profitable, scalable, and responsible in such a dynamic industry populated with misconceptions and dominated by

regulations.

 

Sundarajan Mutialu is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-CEO of AZENTIVE, a wellness and sustainability company supporting the profitable delivery of the purest, organic cannabis. AZENTIVE’s flagship plasma lighting technology, The Sun On-Demand™, produces true sunlight and empowers the cultivation of sungrown quality organic cannabis in any controlled environment. Sundarajan specializes in advanced materials, plasma physics, materials processing, and surface modification. He is passionate about producing the highest quality cannabis to serve the most patients possible. AZENTIVE’s approach to achieving this is to honor the plant first, and then to apply biomimicry to wrap sustainable technology solutions into the cultivation of that plant. Our most important strategic partner is "Mother Nature".