I'm Gil Luxenbourg. 22 years of medical cannabis patient education. The protocol your mom's doctor doesn't have time to design, and your siblings haven't had the time to learn — built specifically for elderly patients with complex conditions, by an expert who works with the whole family, not just the parent.
Book Your Discovery Call (Free · 45 min) 90 minutes · Written Personalized Program same day · 7 days of follow-upYou know your mother's medication schedule better than she does. You know which doctor said what. You know what flares her arthritis and what helps her sleep. You manage all of it from another city — by phone, by group text, by quarterly visits home that always feel too short.
You're burnt out, quietly guilty about not being there in person, and aware that the family is treating you as the natural manager of this situation without ever explicitly asking you to do it. Nobody is going to take this off your shoulders unless you hand it to someone qualified to carry it.
I work with families like yours. The daughter (sometimes the son) coordinating from another city. The parent themselves. The siblings, when they're relevant. The parent's primary doctor. The geriatrician, if there is one. It's not a 1-on-1 transaction — it's a family-system intervention, and it works best when the system is on side.
Across 22 years of working with patients and families — and across the clinical literature on geriatric medical cannabis — these are the five domains where a properly designed protocol consistently produces measurable benefit for elderly patients:
Particularly when prescription pain medication is causing constipation, cognitive fog, or balance issues that are themselves becoming problems. Often the cleanest path to reducing opioid load.
That's not responding to standard sleep aids, or where the sleep aids (benzodiazepines, Z-drugs) are causing daytime sedation and falls risk. This is one of the most common wins in geriatric protocols.
From diabetes, post-surgery, or chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. One of the most undertreated symptom categories in geriatric care.
Particularly relevant for early-stage cognitive decline, where anxiety compounds the cognitive picture and standard anxiolytics carry significant cognitive cost.
When an elderly parent is losing weight and oral intake is becoming a clinical concern.
On falls risk specifically. At recreational doses, cannabis increases fall risk in older adults — measurably. At the 0.5-1mg therapeutic dose, with sublingual delivery (not edibles), with daytime dosing initially (not bedtime when balance matters most), with proper coordination with other sedating medications — the falls-risk increase is roughly equivalent to the falls-risk already attributable to the Ambien she's probably taking. Often lower. And the reduction in other medication side effects often produces a NET decrease in falls risk.
90 minutes, 1-on-1 with me on video. We go through your parent's specific conditions, current medication list (drug-interaction analysis is the FIRST step before any protocol design), recent doctor visits, your role and constraints, the family dynamics, and target outcomes. By the end, I write a Personalized Program — a real protocol document — that you can take to your parent's doctor, share with your siblings, and use as the basis for the decisions you've been putting off.
The Rescue Analysis and any ongoing Coaching Circle sessions can be done with you alone, with you and your parent together, or with you, your parent, and a sibling you want in the loop — your call, every time. Some daughters want privacy for the conversations they can't have in front of the parent (concerns about her decline, fears, side-effect questions, finances). Some include the parent so the protocol is something she heard from me directly — that often builds her buy-in faster than the daughter explaining it later. Some include a sibling who's been second-guessing and needs to hear it from a third party. Different sessions can have different people. You decide. We adjust.
What comes after the Rescue. For most daughters in your position, the Rescue is the entry to ongoing work. The Coaching Circle is a 3-6 month engagement where the protocol gets refined as your parent's situation evolves — biweekly calls with me, ongoing email access, monthly written updates, and a family-education session that gets your siblings on the same page (this is often the highest-leverage hour of the engagement). 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 your family.
No. You choose, every time. Some daughters do the Rescue Analysis alone — there are conversations easier to have without the parent in the room (concerns about her decline, fears, medication side effects you don't want to alarm her about, finances, future-care decisions). Some include the parent so the protocol is something she heard from me directly — that often builds her buy-in faster than the daughter explaining it later. Some include a sibling who's been second-guessing and needs to hear it from a third party. 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.
Some parents resist. Some are open. Most are somewhere in between, with a specific cultural assumption that we can usually unwind in one conversation. Part of the Rescue Analysis output is a "family conversation prep" — including how to introduce the idea to your parent in a way that respects her autonomy. The decision is hers. My job is to give you the framework to have the conversation well.
Drug-interaction analysis is the FIRST step before I design anything. Common medications in elderly patients that interact with cannabinoids include warfarin and other blood thinners, SSRIs, benzodiazepines, opioids, statins, and some blood pressure medications. Most of these are manageable with proper dose adjustment and timing — but it's the conversation we have first, with her full medication list in front of me. If there's a significant interaction we can't work around, I'll tell you and we won't proceed.
This is one of the most common patterns I see. The Coaching Circle includes a Family Education Session — a 60-minute video call where I walk the family through the protocol, the rationale, the safety architecture, and what we're watching for. Siblings, parent, sometimes the parent's primary doctor — all on the same call. Once everyone has heard the same explanation from the same expert, the second-guessing stops. This single hour changes the daughter's day-to-day experience more than anything else in the engagement.
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 parent'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 daughters don't take — until things get bad enough that they have to.