Word: grinspoon
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Massachusetts is one of 16 states which bans marijuana under all circumstances, including medicinal and experimental needs. For 19 years, the state legislature has pigeonholed a law that would give Massachusetts residents access to cannabis for medical use, according to Harvard's Associate Professor of Psychology Lester Grinspoon, who spoke at last night's meeting...
...people who are opposed to cannabis as a medicine say, 'Well, there are other things that work just as well.' But there are substantial numbers of people for whom they do not work," Grinspoon told the council. "It's a crime not to make it available for those people...
...Cannabis is probably the safest of drugs known to man," said Grinspoon, the author of Marijuana Reconsidered. There has never been a death caused by an overdose of cannabis. You can't take enough to kill you. One doesn't get addicted to cannabis...
...Grinspoon described cases in which the drug has considerably eased the nausea caused by chemotherapy for many patients, including Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould...
...Grinspoon downplayed the risks of marijuana but he admitted that the drug can cause heart problems. When questioned, he denied that marijuana causes brain damage and said the "Partnership for a Drug-Free America has no interest in the facts...