In this important and timely book, two eminent researchers describe the medical benefits of marihuana, explain why its use has been forbidden, and argue for its full legalization to make it available to all patients who need it. Highly praised when it was first published in 1993, the book has been expanded to include new examples of the ways that marihuana alleviates symptoms of cancer chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, glaucoma, AIDS, and depression, as well as symptoms of such less common disorders as Crohn’s disease, diabetic gastroparesis, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Praise for the first edition: “Grinspoon and Bakalar have provided a valuable compendium of marihuana’s beneficial properties. . . . This book is valuable for its breadth of first-person accounts of beneficial effects of marihuana smoking in physically and emotionally distressed individuals.”―Rick J. Strassman, m.d., Journal of the American Medical Association “Cogent and convincing arguments for the legalization of marihuana and its pharmacologically active components. . . . This book provides an excellent overview of the subject from a medical perspective.”―Robert M. Swift, m.d., ph.d., New England Journal of Medicine “A very important book. . . . It is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in the history, biomedical science, and public policy surrounding these most amazing plants.”―David E. Presti and Richard Evans Schultes, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Grinspoon, Lester

Bakalar, James B.

Alternative Medicine

Yale University Press

Drug Control in a Free Society

Virtually all known human groups have devised and regularly used techniques for altering consciousness, among which alcohol and drugs are prominent. The authors offer a provocative analysis of the philosophical, sociological, and historical background of the attempt to control consciousness-altering drugs in modern industrial societies. In considering the right of individuals to diversify and enrich their experience versus the obligations of government to protect their citizens, they enable readers to step back for a moment and examine alternative ways of looking at what is usually called the drug problem.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Marihuana Reconsidered: Second Edition

Addiction & Recovery

Harvard University Press

Marihuana reconsidered

Law Practice

From Publishers Weekly\nThis new edition of Harvard Medical School professor Grinspoon's 1971 study of the medical, social and legal aspects of pot use features a new introduction by the author. 
Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Marijuana Reconsidered: A Psychiatrist's Analysis of Marihuana in America, Its Psychological, Physiological, and Social Effects, and the Implications of Its Continuing Presence

Describes the popular rationals for and social forces motivating amphetamine use in America and the often physically and psychologically damaging effects of the drugs

Speed Culture: Amphetamine Use and Abuse in America

Hedblom, Peter

Medical Books

Describes the popular rationals for and social forces motivating amphetamine use in America and the often physically and psychologically damaging effects of the drugs

Psychedelic Reflections [Aug 01, 1983] Grinspoon, Lester and Bakalar, James

Psychedelic Reflections

Bakalar, James

Psychology & Counseling

Human Sciences Pr

Book by Bakalar, James B., Grinspoon, Lester

Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered (Drug Policy Classics Reprints Series Number 1)

Medicine

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