Smokin Moose
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex Moderator
Becoming interested in therapeutic potential of Cannabis while working for N.I.H. in the 1960s, Psychiatrist Tod Mikuriya, author of "Marijuana: Medical Papers"(1973), went on to found the California Cannabis Research Medical Group, overseeing buyer's clubs in northern CA.
Presenting to the First Clinical Cannabis Therapeutics Conference at Univ. of Iowa, May 2000, Dr. Tod first shows a video he produced - "Vaporizers", showing early methods of "inhaling therapeutically active Cannabinoids without exposure to breakdown products of burning".
Dr. Mikuriya then describes his effort to restore herbal Cannabis to the medical formulary and compares the struggle to implement Prop.215 to Vietnam after the Tet offensive and the actions of the CA criminal-justice system to "Rosemary's Baby", closing by calling Cannabis "perhaps the safest and most effective medication for treating chronic illness".
Tod Mikuriya passed on in May, 2007 at the age of 73.
Conference hosted by Patients Out of Time. DVDs are available.
