I'm Gil Luxenbourg. 22 years of medical cannabis patient education. Founder of my country's first patient association. US Patent holder. I work with cancer caregivers in the US to design the supportive-care protocol your oncology team doesn't have time to build.
Book Your Discovery Call (Free · 45 min) 90 minutes · Written Personalized Program same day · 7 days of follow-upOncologists are excellent at fighting cancer. They are typically not trained, not staffed, and not paid to design the supportive-care layer. The chemo regimen, the radiation plan, the surgical timing — those get extraordinary clinical attention. The patient's nausea on day 3, the appetite loss that's affecting nutritional status, the insomnia compounding the fatigue, the anxiety stopping you from sleeping either — those get handled by whichever drug the oncologist remembers first, plus a vague "let me know if it gets worse."
This isn't a criticism of oncologists. It's a structural gap in the US cancer-care system. Supportive care is the spouse's domain by default — and the spouse is usually doing it without training, without a framework, and without coordination.
I built WIZDOM specifically into that gap. The spouse becomes my collaborator. The oncology team stays in charge of fighting the cancer. The supportive-care layer — including medical cannabis for nausea, appetite, sleep, pain, and anxiety — gets designed properly, in a real document, that the oncology team receives and reviews.
Across 22 years of working with cancer patients and the published clinical literature, these are the five domains where a properly designed medical cannabis protocol consistently produces measurable benefit during active treatment:
Inadequately controlled by standard antiemetics (ondansetron, dexamethasone, Compazine). Cannabis-based protocols have been used adjunctively for breakthrough nausea since the 1980s. Strong evidence base.
Particularly important when weight loss is becoming a clinical concern (>5% of body weight in 3 months). Cannabis-based protocols can preserve oral intake when nothing else is working.
From treatment, anxiety, or pain. Especially valuable because the standard sleep aids (benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, opioids) have their own significant costs for cancer patients.
From chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. One of the most undertreated cancer side effects. Standard analgesics often plateau here. Cannabis-based protocols can fill the gap.
That isn't responsive to or appropriate for SSRI/SNRI management during active treatment.
What I don't claim cannabis does: treat the cancer itself. There is no clinical evidence cannabis cures cancer. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. My work is strictly supportive — making the treatment experience more manageable, the symptoms more controlled, the patient's quality of life higher during the months of fighting.
90 minutes, 1-on-1 with me on video. We go through your spouse's specific diagnosis, current treatment regimen, current medication list (drug-interaction analysis is the FIRST step before any protocol design), symptoms, your role and constraints, and target outcomes. By the end, I write a Personalized Program — a real protocol document — that you can take to the oncology team, reference daily, and start running this week.
The Rescue Analysis and any ongoing Coaching Circle sessions can be done with you alone, with you and your spouse together, or with you, your spouse, and an adult child or family member you want in the loop — your call, every time. Some caregivers want privacy for the conversations they can't have in front of the patient (concerns about decline, fears, side-effect questions, finances). Some include the spouse so the protocol is something you both heard from me directly — that often builds patient buy-in faster than the caregiver explaining it later. Different sessions can have different people. You decide. We adjust.
What comes after the Rescue. For most caregivers, the Rescue is the entry to ongoing work. The Coaching Circle is a 3-6 month engagement where the protocol gets refined as treatment progresses — biweekly calls with me, ongoing email access, monthly written updates, family-education session. About 1 in 3 Rescue clients move into the Coaching Circle within 30 days. We discuss it during the Rescue if it's right for you.
No. You choose, every time. Some caregivers do the Rescue Analysis alone — there are conversations easier to have without the patient in the room (concerns about decline, fears, medication side effects you don't want to alarm them about, the finances). Some include the spouse so the protocol is something you both heard from me directly — that often builds patient buy-in faster than the caregiver explaining it later. Some include an adult child or sibling you want in the loop. The Rescue is flexible. Any ongoing Coaching Circle sessions are flexible the same way — different sessions can include different people, depending on what each session needs to be.
Most US oncologists in 2026 are quieter than they used to be about medical cannabis. The common response is closer to "I'd rather not be the one to recommend it, but if you want to do it I'm not going to fight you, and please tell me what you're doing so it goes in the chart." That's a passive endorsement. It's enough. Some oncologists are openly supportive (especially at integrative oncology centers). Some are skeptical — in which case we work alongside the oncologist with documentation, not through them. I write a 2-page summary you can bring to any oncologist; they review it; it goes in the chart. Done.
This is the FIRST thing I check before any protocol is designed. Some chemo drugs have known cannabinoid interactions (paclitaxel, vincristine, irinotecan and others). Some don't. The CYP450 enzyme pathway matters here. I do the interaction analysis with your spouse's specific drug list in hand before designing anything. If there's a significant interaction, we either design around it (different formulation, different timing) or we don't proceed and design a non-cannabis supportive approach. I won't recommend something that risks your spouse's treatment.
The Rescue is refundable per our refund policy. If after the call you don't think I'm the right person to be designing your spouse's supportive-care protocol, tell me. We refund. No hard feelings. You keep whatever notes and ideas the conversation surfaced — they're still useful.
The next step is the one most caregivers don't take — until things get bad enough that they have to.