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When traditional knowledge conflicts with medical authority

My grandmother used cannabis for her arthritis before she died and swore it was the only thing that helped, but my doctor says there's no real evidence and I don't know who to trust about my own pain.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between ancestral wisdom and institutional medicine creates a crisis of epistemic authority in one's own healing journey.

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“Where Are You with Cannabis and the body across traditions?”

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