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1. Name: Lester Grinspoon, M.D.  
2. Title: Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
3. Medical Marijuana
Position:		 Pro to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
4. Reasoning:

"Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never cause an overdose death." (10/1/97)
5. Credibility
Ranking:

 Key Experts
Physicians [We believe physicians are the "key experts" in the medical marijuana debate because the issue is thought by many to be ultimately based on the medical value and risks of marijuana, and Physicians, with their training and clinical work, should (at least in theory) have the best knowledge of marijuana's medical value and risks.].

6. Involvement:
  • Author (with Jeame Bakalalar) - Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine, 1993

  • Author - Marihuana Reconsidered, 1994
7. Education:
  • M.D. 1955; Harvard Medical School
8. Relevant Affiliations/Honors: None
9. Contact Info:
Phone: (617) 626-9413 Fax: none listed
E-Mail:   lester_grinspoon@hms.harvard.edu
Web Site: www.rxmarihuana.com/
10. Other: None
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