Opinion pieces

The decision may disrupt established treatment for approximately 2,000 patients and raises questions about continuity of care, clinical equivalence and equitable access. 25 August 2026 | News analysis Sweden’s Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (Tandvards- och lakemedelsformansverket, TLV) has decided that extemporaneously prepared oral medicines containing dronabinol or cannabidiol will be excluded from the national … […]

After years of criticism, frustration, and uncertainty, many patients and families in Sweden are finally receiving the news they have been waiting for. Starting June 1, 2026, the cannabis-based medicine Epidyolex will be included in Sweden’s national high-cost protection scheme for certain patients suffering from severe forms of epilepsy. The decision by Sweden’s Dental and … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) A Litmus Test for Political Intelligence Yes, this is an article about a plant-based medicine. But more than that, it is a litmus test. A test of whether Swedish decision-makers understand what evidence is. What proportionality is. And perhaps most importantly, what consequences are. The … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) There’s a certain kind of medical paper that doesn’t scream when you read it. No flashy headlines. No “breakthrough” language. Just quiet data, sitting there politely, like it knows something important and is patiently waiting for us to catch up. The study behind PubMed ID … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Centuries before neuroscience, the Buddhists looked inward and saw what labs are only now confirming: the world you experience isn’t the world itself, but a mental construction. And the “you” doing the experiencing is no exception. You are nothing but an illusion the brain assembles … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Time usually behaves. It ticks along, easy to ignore. Then you try a little green, and the clock starts misbehaving. Five minutes swell into fifteen. A song you’ve heard a hundred times suddenly reveals layers you’d missed: a hidden harmony, a buried rhythm, the breath … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Reality is supposed to be solid. The ground under your feet. The clock on the wall. The self inside your head that says, I am me. But at higher doses (especially edibles) cannabis pokes holes in that solidity. Minutes stretch into hours or vanish altogether. … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Your consciousness is the only thing you’ve ever truly owned. Not your house, not even your body or your name. Those can be taken, traded, rewritten. Consciousness is different. It’s the vantage point from which you experience everything. It isn’t just something you have. It … […]

Rules and Their Limits Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Modern medicine likes rules. One symptom. One cause. One molecule to fix it. A graph to prove it worked. That’s the playbook: tidy, testable, and tight. It gave us antibiotics, vaccines, insulin—slam dunks for a system built on precision and control. … […]

Author: Dr. Kim, Medical Doctor at Aurea Care (Pen name) Sitting was a timed event for him, though he didn’t need a clock to know when time was up. About ten minutes in, his lower back would start staging a revolt. So he kept a foam cushion in the car and treated every chair like … […]