You Become the Atmosphere You Live Inside

The old advice was right: the people around us become part of us

May 16 • Ben Caplan, MD

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Medical Cannabis Legalization Is Not Medical Cannabis Competence

The system thinks it solved something. It hasn’t even started.

May 1 • Ben Caplan, MD

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April 2026

The Behavioral Architecture of Cannabis

A More Useful Way to Think About Cannabis and the Brain (Response to Washington Post article)

Apr 23 • Ben Caplan, MD

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Cannabis Rescheduling Is Not the Story People Think It Is

Acting AG Todd Blanche’s order finally moves cannabis to Schedule III. But as the headlines celebrate a policy win, the clinical work of precision…

Apr 23 • Ben Caplan, MD

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Part 2: What the Body Does Instead

Why the math of aging stops working... and what to do about it.

Apr 19 • Ben Caplan, MD

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Part I:When the Body Stops Finishing What It Starts

Why doing everything "right" suddenly isn't enough, and why it isn't your fault

Apr 17 • Ben Caplan, MD

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March 2026

"Food Was the Enemy Until It Wasn’t"

A conversation on appetite, injury, and finding balance with cannabis

Mar 26 • Ben Caplan, MD

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The Rhythms We Miss

Why some of what we treat as disease is often the result of patterns that never formed

Mar 24 • Ben Caplan, MD

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Why Honey Sometimes Sounds Less Scientific Than Ibuprofen

What clinical experience reveals about the limits of reductionist medicine

Mar 10 • Ben Caplan, MD

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February 2026

Your Brain Has a Border. Can Cannabis Help Protect It as We Age?

What we know, and what we still do not, about the blood–brain barrier as we age

Feb 28 • Ben Caplan, MD

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We Talk About Cannabis Backwards

Starting with intoxication instead of origin distorts everything.

Feb 15 • Ben Caplan, MD

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The New Cannabis–Heart Attack Study Is Not About Cannabis

What ICD codes, hospital admissions, and outdated labels reveal about how we assign risk.

Feb 12 • Ben Caplan, MD

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