[fmichael]

An amazing tale of the war initiated by the California State Board of Medical Quality Assurance (SBMQA) against Allan Frankel, MD, a once prominent Santa Monica internist who discovered the value of medical marijuana for pain and upon recovery began dispensing it for pain. http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/07/...t-deemed-sane/

And for those in the Los Angeles area, I have been authoritatively advised that Dr. Frankel is the "go to guy" in town for medical marijuana, where he prescribes not something that could give you lung cancer, etc, but a distilled "tincture of cannabis" instead. And while I know from my prescribed use of the significantly inferior Marinol - an exact replica of one of nine naturally occurring THC molecules - that pot is the best thing going for CNS induced spasms, it's off limits to me if I want to remain with my current pain doc, who has to cover his tail with the DEA on a regular basis. And I do. So I don't.

Mike