Uwe Blesching is editor-in-chief of Healing Times magazine and author of The Cannabis Health Index. He is a regular contributor to Mind-Body-Medicine, and a medical journalist who focuses on cannabinoid medicine, phytopharmacology, evidence-based alternative protocols for the prevention and treatment of malaria, pregnancy, and venereal diseases. He was a mobile intensive care paramedic and a firefighter for the city of San Francisco. He holds a BA in humanities from the New College of California, an MA in Psychology, and a PhD in higher education and social change from the Western Institute for Social Research.