1. Many of your clients are using cannabis recreationally or to address their medical needs without guidance. It is important to know how they use cannabis to see how it might effect your therapy with them. It will help to have basic knowledge of the mechanisms by which cannabis works and in what cases it can be helpful and successfully used.

2. Clients are coming to their therapists having heard about medical cannabis wanting your recommendations as to its value and whether its good for their personal use.

3. Cannabis is a powerful medicine and is helpful for many, but it is not for everybody and cannot be universally recommended. It is extremely important to know all the pharmaceuticals clients are taking as drug – drug interactions may make their drugs and/or cannabis ineffective. And in worse cases, potentially harmful.