Conference Cannabis and Science IV.

We cordially invite everyone who is interested in the current state of knowledge concerning one of the oldest cultural plants on Earth to the fourth year of “Konopí a věda” (“Cannabis and Science”) conference, which will take place at Mendel University in Brno on April 18th 2018.

There will be Czech as well as foreign cannabis experts speaking at the conference and all the lectures will be simultaneously translated into Czech and English.

The conference is divided into two sections. The morning section will introduce the current work in the area of industrial as well as medical cannabis research in the Czech Republic, while the afternoon lectures will summarize the current situation in the area of implementation of medical cannabis into practice in the Czech Republic as well as on the global level. Issues and problems which experts in this field need to deal with on daily basis will be discussed.

We are also pleased to have renowned neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo among our speakers, who specializes in pediatric neurology and has always been strongly interested in healing plants. This interest has influenced his work and research with the aim to bring cannabis and other botanical substances back to modern medicine. After twenty years of experience in clinical practice, Dr. Russo became the main consultant to British pharmaceutical company GW Pharmaceutical, which produces approved cannabis medicines, in 2003. Currently, he is working as the head of research in the Prague based institute ICCI, which focuses on cannabis and cannabinoid research. Dr. Russo has authored or published seven books on cannabis and other medicinal herbs, more than fifty scientific articles on neurology, pain treatment, cannabis and ethnobotany, and he is now lecturing about these topics all around the world. More about Dr. Russo’s work can be found here: http://spolekkopac.org/cz/21/novinka?id=126