Welcome to the NZPS 2024 webinar series!

The NZ Pain Society (NZPS) presents the 2024 webinar series on various pain education topics relevant to clinical practice, education, and research.

Topic: Cannabis, Opioids, and Public Health Implications
Date and time: Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 1pm - 2.30 pm NZST

Programme:

The US State of Colorado legalised the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes in 2000, and for recreational use in 2012. This has had effects, including the development of cannabis tourism. What have been the overall effects of these legislative changes, both locally in Colorado, and more widely in the USA?

Presenter:

Kenneth Finn, MD has been practicing Pain Medicine in Colorado Springs since 1994. He is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (1995), Pain Medicine (1998), and Pain Management (2000). He is certified in Cannabis Science through the University of Colorado (2022). He is a volunteer clinical instructor for the University of Colorado Medical School, Colorado Springs branch. He is former President (2022) of the American Board of Pain Medicine and has served on their Exam Council for over 20 years. He served on the Colorado Governor’s Task Force on Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana for recreational use, Consumer Safety and Social Issues Work Group (2012) and serve 4 years on Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council (2014-18). He was an invited speaker to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, March 2023. He has testified to the Canadian Senate on their marijuana bill (2018) as well as New York General Assembly, and speaks internationally on the health impacts of marijuana, including being an invited speaker to the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, UCLA VA Medical Center, and the Texas Medical Society, among many others. He works nationally with other state legislators considering legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational purposes. He is editor of Cannabis in Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (2020) and currently the Co-Vice President (2021) of the International Academy on the Science and Impacts of Cannabis (https://iasic1.org) which is now a member of the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (2023).

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