Leading Cannabis Doctors
Dr. Abrams
Dr. Donald Abrams
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Integrative Oncology, University of California, San Francisco.
Director, Integrative Oncology Research Program Integrative Medicine Physician.
Chief of Hematology/Oncology at San Francisco General Hospital.
"The number of times that all of the available literature on marijuana's safety and effectiveness have been reviewed by US government appointed bodies - they come back with the same conclusion, that it's safe and useful!"
Dr. Bearman
Dr. David Bearman, M.D.
Former Director of Haight Ashbury Drug Treatment Program.
Founder of Isla Vista Medical Clinic.
Member of Governor Reagan’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Drug Abuse.
Expert Witness.
"Studies have found that marijuana seeks out cancerous cells and preferentially kills them over the healthy cells. It's truly amazing the number of conditions that respond favorably to cannabis!"
Dr. Guzman
Dr. Manuel Guzman, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biology Complutense University Madrid.
"We have observed that cannabinoids have the effect of incurring death in cancer cells. They inhibit the growth and multiplication of cancer cells. They actually reduce the growth of tumors."
Dr. Hergenrather
Dr. Jeffrey Hergenrather, M.D.
President of the California Cannabis Research Medical Group (CCRMG).
Participating member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society (ICRS) and the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM)
"People have a hard time believing that cannabis can have all of these fantastic effects that are described, but what we're doing is stimulating a natural system that is already there! This has been developing for hundreds of millions of years."
Dr. McAllister
Dr. Sean D. McAllister, PhD
Researcher at the California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco.
"What we found is this compound called cannabidiol, CBD, was particularly effective at inhibiting aggressive breast cancers."
Dr. Mechoulam
Dr. Raphael Mechoulam
Professor of Medical Chemistry at the University of Jerusalem. He is known for his work in the isolation, structure elucidation and total synthesis of Δ9- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which he discovered in 1964.
"Receptors are not built in our brain or anywhere else in our bodies of course, because there is a plant out there that will produce a compound, that act's on them - it just doesn't work that way! Receptors are found in our body because we produce compounds that will activate those receptors."
Dr. Melamede
Dr. Robert Melamede
Associate Professor and Biology Chairman, University of Colorado.
"It's quite an amazing spectrum of compounds that are in the Cannabis plant. And what's so unique and incredible about them is that they are touching on this incredible system that pervades all of us!"
Dr. Tashkin
Dr. Donald Tashkin
Emeritus Professor of Medicine UCLA.
Medical Director of UCLA Pulmonary Function Laboratory.
"Marijuana actually has an anti-tumoral effect! THC impairs protein synthesis, and it's what we call antimitogennic or antiproliferative, it's also an antiangiogenic, and as it turns out is in fact proapoptotic."
