Dr. Peter Grinspoon, delivers an informative (and humorous) talk about the enormous benefits the oil delivers and the slow but steady progress being made to educate medical professionals about the impact of medical cannabis. He explains how the oil is a more effective treatment for pain than opiates and it also works to mitigate the suffering experienced by people who are trying to get off these dangerous drugs.
“I would not be surprised in ten years if medical cannabis was prescribed for heroin addiction,” Grinspoon says.
Peter Grinspoon, MD, is a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor at te Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the memoir Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction. He spent two years as an Associate Director of the Massachusetts Physician Health Service helping physicians with addiction and mental health issues. He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy with honors from Swarthmore College. He then spent five years as a Campaign Director for the environmental group Greenpeace before entering medical school at Boston University School of Medicine, where he graduated with honors. He completed his residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, in the primary care program. He has been on national television including NBC, C-SPAN, and Fox and Friends, and his writings have been published in The Nation and The Los Angeles Times. He is a Contributing Editor to Harvard Health Publications.
Dr. Grinspoon has posts lively, interesting things on a wide range of subjects on Twitter. You can follow Peter @peter_grinspoon