On Nov.20th,1983, Florida stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld began
recieving 300 joints per month of U.S. government-grown marijuana,
under the Investigational New Drugs (I.N.D.) program (formed in
1976 when Robert Randall sued the Federal government for access to
medical marijuana). As the program was closed to new patients in
1991, Irv is now one of only five legal Cannabis patients in
America.
Irv has a rare disease called multiple congenital
cartilaginous exostoses, which causes extremely painful bone tumors
all over his body. Opiate pain relivers and muscle relaxants (to
prevent tearing of muscle) were never adaquate, but Medical
Cannabis has made it possible for him to lead a normal and
productive life.
Speaking to the Second Clinical Cannabis Therapeutics
Conference in Portland, OR in 2002, Irvin was part of the "Chronic
Cannabis Use in the Compassionate I.N.D. Program Study", by Dr.
Ethan Russo of Missoula, MT, initiated by Patients Out of Time.
The "Missoula Study" examined four of the I.N.D. patients for
any negative effects of long-term marijuana use - something the
government refused to do with their own patients and data.
View the entire study presentation from the same conference:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9112662989507508748
Other legal patients on the study - Elvy Musikka and George
McMahon also told their stories at the conference. View the entire
patient panel, chaired by M.L.Mathre, President of Patients Out of
Time:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1666087285986005807
Irvin Rosenfeld has called for establishing new protocols for
medical Cannabis patients under the Compassionate I.N.D., providing
data useful for removing marijuana from FDA's "Schedule One -
having no medical value" classification. View Irvin and legal
marijuana patient(glaucoma)Elvy Musikka adressing these issues
again in 2004 at 3rd Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7910101114200015716
Conferences hosted by Patients Out of Time. DVDs are
available at:
http://www.medicalcannabis.com/
In response to assignment:
Time to legalize pot?