While cannabis remains one of the safest natural substances there are potential side effects, drug interactions, and precautions to be aware of when combining cannabis with pharmaceutical medications.

Join our special guest speaker Dr. Kenton Crowley, Clinical Pharmacologist, and creator of the Trokie for an insightful presentation. He will discuss how we metabolize cannabis, routes of administration, formulations, safety profiles, and what patients need to know when combining cannabis with pharmaceutical medications.
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    Kandice Hawes-Lopez
    Host of the Farmacy Cannabis Lecture Series
    Kandice Hawes-Lopez serves as the Community Outreach and Events Manager at Glass House Group, which owns and operates the Pottery LA, Farmacy Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, and Berkeley. Kandice manages the community outreach program at all Glass House Group retail locations and organizes senior shuttles, educational lectures, events, webinars, and community outreach projects.

    In 2003 Kandice founded the Orange County chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. In her 18 years as the Executive Director, she held hundreds of meetings, organized dozens of events, and has moderated and spoken on conference panels across the country.

    Kandice was named High Times Freedom Fighter of the month in November 2012, named "One of Orange County's Most Influential People" by the Orange County Register in 2014, and included in the "100 Most Interesting People in Orange County" in 2015 by the OC Weekly.
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    Dr. Kenton Crowley, Pharm.D., FAARFM, FMNM, ABAAHP
    Clinical Pharmacologist, Creator of the Trokie
    Dr. Kenton Crowley, Pharm.D., FAARFM, FMNM, ABAAHP is a board-certified Pharm.D. through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed his residency with Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, CA. He completed his Fellowship in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine in 2011. During his 38 years in practice, he has worked in primary research at UCI, Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Child Development, involved in the development of several drugs; holds two patents in neuropathic pain and a patent on a buccal delivery system incorporating cannabis.

    Dr. Crowley currently is the Chief Science Officer for Bioactive Solutions Inc in Reno, NV, is Director of R&D at Silver State Trading, a 40,000 sq.ft. permitted Clean Green cannabis cultivation and production facility, and supervises California operations for Trokie® California Inc. for manufacturing of THC-based products in CA and for CBD Trokie® products nationally.

    He serves as the CMO for the Palliative Care Corporation (PCC) in Huntington Beach, CA, working with patients & physicians incorporating cannabis in disease state treatment and symptoms management, whether as a primary treatment or complementary to traditional and/or other modalities. Clinical studies are currently being run through this entity with abstracts and publications ongoing.

    Dr. Crowley is a member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, a member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society and International Society of Cannabis Pharmacists, and is a member of the Incubator Task Force for the UCI Center for the Study of Cannabis.
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