Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
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It takes a look at cannabis in all its different aspects. There is one short chapter that talks about the experiences of cannabis therapy in the USA, and about a certain Robert Randall who fought through the courts and won the right to cure his glaucoma with cannabis, which was supplied to him directly by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
What is your first book?
Cannabis Uso e Abuso by Giancarlo Arnao. This book is personally important as it was the first book that really introduced me to the subject of therapeutic cannabis. It takes a look at cannabis in all its different aspects. There is one short chapter that talks about the experiences of cannabis therapy in the USA, and about a certain Robert Randall who fought through the courts and won the right to cure his glaucoma with cannabis, which was supplied to him directly by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. I first started to be interested in the subject through this book, which encouraged me to look further into the subject, leading me to read my second chosen book by Dr Lester Grinspoon.
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Tato Grasso is a cardiologist in Palermo. He began being interested in the therapeutic uses of cannabis in the late 1990s, working on the ‘Libro Bianco sugli usi terapeutici della Cannabis’, presented to the former Italian Health Minister Umberto Veronesi. He is a founding partner of the Associazione Cannabis Terapeutica (ACT) and fellow of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM). He is author of several publications on the therapeutic uses of cannabis and he has made frequent television and radio appearances to discuss this issue.
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