Shari B. Kaplan, LCSWIntegrative Mental Health

Can Cannabis Help Heal Injury or Illness?

10 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, Shari B. Kaplan, LCSW explains that illnesses, injuries, surgeries, and neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative conditions place heavy demand on the body's endocannabinoid system, often depleting its natural cannabinoids. She argues that, when guided by a qualified clinician, herbal plant medicine and cannabis can be used in specific formulations to strengthen and rebuild the endocannabinoid system, restoring bodily synchronicity and enabling self‑correction and self‑healing.

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So you can imagine that if you have an illness, an injury, or surgery, or a neurodevelopmental challenge, or a neurodegenerative challenge, that your endocannabinoid system has to work double time to try to get your body modulating or working together in harmony and synchronicity. And sometimes you end up depleting your own natural cannabinoids. And therefore, using herbal plant medicine and cannabis as medicine, if you work with a qualified clinician, you You'll be able to use different plant formulations to actually help strengthen your endocannabinoid system and build it back up so that it can help your body go back into synchronicity where it can self-correct and self-heal.