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Peter Grinspoon is an internal medicine physician.

Cannabis is ground zero in the fight for racial justice in America

Peter Grinspoon, MD
Meds
June 23, 2021

The American Medical Association (AMA) has become unmoored in history, seemingly unaware that both racism and the war on drugs are no longer tolerated by society. A confluence of recent activities and events having to do with their stance on medical cannabis puts them in a poor light and throws into question whether doctors — or patients — are at all served by this group.

As a practicing primary care physician …

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Cannabis is ground zero in the fight for racial justice in America

A doctor confronts his addiction

Peter Grinspoon, MD
Physician
March 21, 2016

An excerpt from Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction.

It was a frigid winter day in February 2005, when two officers — one from the state police, one from the Drug Enforcement Agency — arrived at my office and sat waiting amid the spellbinding view of the neighboring arboretum and …

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