Deborah Post, ARNP, will present Medical Cannabis: Is it a Gateway Drug of the Potential Answer to Disease, Demystifying an Unusual Plant, from 5:45 to 8 p.m., June 12, at Wellbridges Health Center, in Bonita Springs. Attendees will learn how this plant will possibly be at the forefront of medicine in the future and how working with the concerns of the past will help dictate how we’ll be able to integrate the latest information from research going on worldwide.

She attests that as the current opioid crisis is claiming one American life every 15 minutes and affecting rises in chronic depression, anxiety, autoimmune diseases and cancer, the world is going back into the past to reclaim an herb that has been used since prehistoric times.

Cost: $15. Location: 9200 Bonita Beach Rd., Ste. 213. For more information or to preregister (required), call 239-231-8354, email [email protected] or visit Wellbridges.com.