Hi, this is Dr. Mercola and welcome to our Take Control of Your Health

podcast in which we bring you the latest cutting-edge interviews to help you

achieve optimal health. This next interview is part of my

best-dove series which features some of the most popular interviews with leading

health experts. So thank you for listening now. Let's get started with this

week's program to help you and your family take control of your health.

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Dr.

Margaret Getty, who is a Stanford trained physician, pathologist specifically, an award-winning researcher, who actually

was practicing work for the drug companies when she first started her job, but switched

out of that model in 2004 and now she's in Colorado really

the home of medical marijuana or one of the first states to widely apply it and

she has an alternative medical-based practice that's focused on holistic,

supportive, and non-drug-based care. She specialized in the use of cannabis and is really an expert

of this and she uses that to help her patients get healthier, get off of pills

especially opiates which are now killing one in every one

American every 20 minutes. So she helps him do this and actually have a

far better quality of life. So welcome and

thank you for joining us from Colorado today. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be

here. So it's interesting. We scheduled this interview a while ago and I'm just going to put on my glasses here because I'm looking at a I'm in the studio and I have to look an LED monitor and just for recording purposes it's better for us to

film this with no filters on so I have to use my own internal filters but so that's

the reason for the glasses but just we scheduled this at least a month or two ago maybe longer and

The day yesterday the day before this interview as we're speaking the DEA announced that they

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