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August Monthly Membership Meeting

When
20 Aug 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Collingwood Legion

We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming August Membership Meeting.

Don't forget to bring some cash for the 50/50 draw.

Bring a Book, Take a Book available at the meeting.

Speaker: Dr. Bruce McKay

Dean - Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University

Cannabis and the Aging Brain

Dr. McKay received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta) in 2006 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine (Department of Neuroscience) (Houston, Texas). He joined the Department of Psychology at Laurier in 2008 and has served as Associate Dean: Student Services in the Faculty of Science (2015-2018), Senior Advisor to the Provost (2018-2019), Chair of the Department of Psychology (2019-2021) and now as Dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, and the Wilfrid Laurier International College.

Providing an overview of the effects that medicinal and recreational cannabis use (and use of cannabis derivatives, like CBD) has on brain and body and behaviour across the lifespan.

Discuss - The neuroscience of short-term effects of cannabis (from the munchies to driving impairments to treatment of pain and arthritis and sleep disturbances and other ailments).
Discuss - Why it isn’t possible to lethally overdose on cannabis.
Discuss - Long-term effects of cannabis (with a focus on addiction and the differential effects of cannabis on teenagers vs. adults).
Review - Cannabis laws in Canada.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
Enjoy a cup of coffee with us before the start of the meeting at 10 a.m.

PROBUS Club of the Gateway

P. O. Box 612
Collingwood ON L9Y 4E8