Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D. - Fallen Warrior

[Jim Finnel]

"Cannabis is leading the way for a more holistic type of medical care, a general revolt against corporate rationed care and traditional pharmaceutical company approaches to medicine. Patients use marijuana to get off toxic drugs. They find fellowship in compassion clubs. They find empowerment in fighting against prohibition, standing up to police and demagogues. Our opponents can threaten our freedom, but they can't kill our spirit."
- Tod Mikuriya, 2001

Dr. Mikuriya is one of the world's foremost authorities on the uses of medical cannabis. He has few peers in his clinical knowledge of cannabis' therapeutic uses, efficacy, history, culture, policies, routes of administration and potential for abuse.


This video contains the last interview of Dr. Tod Mikuriya. 9/20/33 - 5/20/07
YouTube - The California Chronicles Of Medical Marijuana
YouTube - Vaporizers & Medical Cannabis in CA, with Tod Mikuriya, MD


Biographical Data

A graduate of Reed College, Portland, Oregon and Temple University Medical School, Philadelphia, he served a rotating internship at Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco. He specialized in psychiatry at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem and completed his training at Mendocino State Hospital. His status is "eligible" by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is certified in biofeedback by the American Association of Biofeedback Clinicians.

In private medical psychiatric consultative practice in Berkeley and the east bay, he was an attending psychiatrist at Gladman Hospital from 1970 until 1991. Chair 1993-94 of the Department of Psychiatry, Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley, and attending psychiatrist at Laurel Grove, Vencor, Alameda County Medical Center, and San Leandro Hospitals until 2000. He is on the staff at Kindred Hospital San Leandro.

Mikuriya was Director of the Drug Abuse Treatment Center at the New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute, Skillman, NJ before appointment

as director of non-classified marijuana research for the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Narcotics and Drug Abuse Studies.

A planner for Project Eden community drug abuse treatment program he set up the first methadone maintenance program in Alameda County.

Member of the California Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (Life Member), American Society of Addiction Medicine, California Society of Addiction Medicine (certified Addiction Medicine Specialist and Medical Review Officer) and the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association, he served on the ACCMA Chemical Addictions Committee.

Member, Biofeedback Society of California

Member, Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy

Member, The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine

Member, Mensa

Member, International Cannabinoid Research Society.

Member, International Association of Cannabis as Medicine

He is Medical Coordinator for California Cannabis Centers. Author: Oakland Buyers' Cooperative protocols

Member, Medical Marijuana Work Group, City of Oakland 8/96-

Member, Medical Marijuana Task Force, California Society for Addiction Medicine and California Medical Association 4/20/97-

Member, Advisory Board: Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics 2000-

President, California Cannabis Research Medical Group 1999 -

Mikuriya is the editor and publisher of Marijuana Medical Papers 1839-1972 and numerous papers on therapeutic cannabis and drug control policy. The most recent: Medicinal Uses of Cannabis at a Buyers' Club: A Pilot Study 12/94, Internet 2/96. He is the editor and publisher of Indian Hemp Drugs Report Centennial Volume I. Policy, Social and Religious Customs Last Gasp Press, San Francisco 1994. Mikuriya is a coauthor of Marijuana Medical Handbook; A Guide to Therapeutic Use Ed Rosenthal, Tod Mikuriya, M.D., and Dale Gieringer Quick American Archives, Oakland 1997.

Cannabis Writings: Research, essays, and commentary dating from 1965 to the present. These writings--published and unpublished--highlight Dr. Mikuriya's unique views on medicinal cannabis. With his psychiatric background, Dr. Mikuriya quite often elicits a view that is found nowhere else.

Vaporization Page: Vaporization offers the benefits of smoked of cannabis (rapid onset and ability to self titrate) without the harmful effects. Includes pictures, essays, and how-tos, if you are seeking quality information without the vendor hype, this is your place to find it.

Ethnographic Writings: Written mostly in the '60s, these canabis related ethnographic studies are full of rich and usefull information.

Marijuana Medical Papers 1869-1972: originally published in 1972, virtually out of print. If the medicinal cannabis movement has a single beginning, this book is it.

Source: Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.


There are many of Dr. Mikuriya's articles to be found in our Medical Marijuana Facts & Information Forum.