Archive - Doctor Approved

Who’s Driving This Thing?

How Our Paradigms Quietly Run the Show (and What to Do About It)

Jul 11 •

CBD and the Liver: Storm in a Dropper Bottle?

A science-backed, soul-searching look at liver enzymes, CBD fearmongering, and what the data actually says about safety

Jul 9 •

Legal Weed Isn’t the Disaster—Lazy Thinking Is

An Op Ed response to Charles Fain Lehman’s recent WSJ essay, “Legal Marijuana’s Disastrous Legacy"

Jul 8 •

A Pill for an Ill Is... Over the Hill

Healing Isn’t Fixing - Because We Are Not Broken Machines

Jul 6 •

Weed Anxiety, Explained: The Science, The Panic, The Fixes

The untold science behind why weed makes some people anxious (and how to fix it).

Jul 3 •

June 2025

High Hopes, Murky Data: How One Cannabis Heart Study Got Twisted in Translation

A massive meta-analysis. Millions of patients. And still… more questions than answers.

Jun 26 •

Invite your friends to read Doctor Approved

Not saying you need to subscribe, but you kind of do

Jun 3 •

Cannabis Made Me Do It?

When Psych Ward Graphs Become National Policy—Without the Fine Print

Jun 2 •

Cannabis Isn’t a Vice—It’s a Smarter Form of Care

Why the plant we dismissed might be the care we need most

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Does Weed Hurt Your Heart? Only If You Ignore the Details

A new JAMA study thinks it cracked the cannabis-cardiovascular code—too bad it skipped a few chapters.

May 29 •

How Are We Still Missing This? The Case for Cannabis as the Most Underrated Tool in Senior Care

The Quiet Revolution We Keep Ignoring

May 28 •

Maybe It’s Not the Child—Maybe It’s the System

When diagnosis becomes shorthand for “you don’t fit here”

May 20 •

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