His writing has been published in The Nation, the Los Angeles Times and Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics. When government regulation indirectly leads to more harm, as in the case with cannabis increasing potency and getting synthetic alternatives popular because of ease of access and not popping drug tests, he points out how one led to the other.

Grinspoon's Harvard Health articles have reached tens of millions of readers, have been widely referenced in the national media, and have been cited in congressional testimony. On the science side – the book makes complex scientific points in an accessible manner, the explanations of the entourage effect, and the way that THC and CBD form a natural complementary see-saw, counteracting the effects of one-another, were particularly interesting. We use essential, performance, functional and advertising cookies to give you a better web experience. Coca leaves are amazing, tiny amounts of these leaves contain incredible amounts of vitamins, large amounts of calcium (which is rare in plants) and they're nutritionally rich. As marijuana goes mainstream, many lingering doubts, contradictions, lies, and half-truths remain entrenched in the public debate.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Nor that although its medical use is authorized in the UK, the NHS and physicians are not prescribing it.

He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit which he founded in 2010 to provide independent, evidence-based information on drugs. The definitive guide to cannabis and your health, from world-renowned professor of neuropsychopharmacology David Nutt.

TREATMENT: People with a range of pain difficulties and epilepsy, cancer and other horrific conditions have been successfully treated with cannabis when other medical treatments have failed or had much worse side effects.

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