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Stoned : a doctor's case for medical marijuana / David Casarett, M.D.

Summary:

No substance on earth is as hotly debated as marijuana. Opponents claim it's dangerous, addictive, carcinogenic, and a gateway to serious drug abuse. Fans claim it as a wonder drug, treating cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma, arthritis, migraines, PTSD, and insomnia. Patients suffering from these conditions need--and deserve--hard facts based on medical evidence, not hysteria and superstition. In Stoned, palliative care physician Dr. David Casarett sets out to do anything--including experimenting on himself--to find evidence of marijuana's medical potential. He smears mysterious marijuana paste on his legs and samples pot wine. He poses as a patient at a seedy California clinic and takes lessons from an artisanal hash maker. In conversations with researchers, doctors, and patients around the world he learns how marijuana works--and doesn't--in the real world.

Record details

ISBN: 9781591847670
ISBN: 1591847672
Physical Description: 289 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Current, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The blacksmith and the boxer -- The girl who talked to cats : marijuana's benefits for the brain -- The woman with knives in her neck : marijuana's benefits for the body -- Beer and brownies -- Bongs and budder -- Reefer madness -- Bodily harm -- Caveat emptor -- The future of medical marijuana -- A long strange trip.