FUCK marinol.......
THIS (from the article) \/
FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, Lester Grinspoon, M.D., now an associate professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, would have never agreed with the idea of marijuana as a medicine. He thought his friends who lit up were ruining their health. Who would blame him? The U.S. government seemed to agree. In 1970, it classified marijuana as a Schedule I drug—alongside heroin and LSD—as a substance with high abuse potential and no accepted medical purpose.
But in 1967, Dr. Grinspoon’s teenage son was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Chemotherapy left him with no appetite, vomiting spells, and nausea—“the kind you feel right down to your toe nails,” the doctor remembers. The drugs that were supposed to ease the pain didn’t. So Dr. Grinspoon’s wife pulled up to Wellesley High School and asked her son’s friend for weed.
A few minutes before his treatments, Dr. Grinspoon’s son would take a few puffs. “We never—for as long as he lived—had to deal with that awful experience of seeing what he went through again,” he says.
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I'm living proof of just how bloody well cannabis works to mitigate leukemia treatment-related side effects, and for the aches & pains in the body & mind brought on by years of physical & mental self-abuse.
My doctor asked ME if I had given any thought about medical marijuana, and offered to write me a recommendation to get my card.
And not a cornerstore-nudge-nudge-wink-wink cannabis doctor, a highly regarded specialist in his field of oncology.
I DO have a valid OMMP card, but I would still grow it and smoke the shit out of it if I didn't have the card.
And if I had no ills to care for...
... I'd STILL grow it and smoke the shit out of it just to enjoy the high and altered (elevated) states of consciousness and boost in creative thoughts and expressions it affords.