This program
travels to India where marijuana is openly cultivated and used in medicine,
rituals and recreationally, as it has been for thousands of years with little
indication of its supposed damaging effects.
Marijuana came to the West in the mid-1800s, and was commonly used as a
folk medicine. In the United States of
the 1930s, it became identified with the corrupting influence of the jazz
culture and with Mexican and Chinese immigrants. From then on, it was labeled as a Schedule 1
dangerous drug.
A movie
called Reefer Madness 2 introduces
audiences to the personal stories of two women who provide marijuana to the
sick. Valerie Corral of California
established the Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana ( WAMM ) and supplies
over 200 people in the Santa Cruz area.
Vancouver's Hilary Black runs The Compassionate Club. She talks about her dealings with sufferers,
the police and the growers she relies on for supplies.
Dr. Lester
Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School and the author of Forbidden Medicine, recounts how a personal experience affecting
his own family reinforced his determination to try and set the record straight
about the marijuana use and cancer patients.
The foregoing information is from the Canadian Broadcasting Company's web site.
Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine
A 1997 book
by Dr. Lester Grinspoon, M.D. and Dr. James B. Bakalar
Published by
the Yale University Press
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