Legal Cannabis for 25 Years - Irvin Rosenfeld's Story

On Nov.20th,1983, Florida stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld began recieving 300 joints per month of U.S. government-grown marijuana, under the Investigational New Drugs (I.N.D.) program (formed in 1976 when Robert Randall sued the Federal government for access to medical marijuana). As the program was closed to new patients in 1991, Irv is now one of only five legal Cannabis patients in America.
Irv has a rare disease called multiple congenital cartilaginous exostoses, which causes extremely painful bone tumors all over his body. Opiate pain relivers and muscle relaxants (to prevent tearing of muscle) were never adaquate, but Medical Cannabis has made it possible for him to lead a normal and productive life.
Speaking to the Second Clinical Cannabis Therapeutics Conference in Portland, OR in 2002, Irvin was part of the "Chronic Cannabis Use in the Compassionate I.N.D. Program Study", by Dr. Ethan Russo of Missoula, MT, initiated by Patients Out of Time.
The "Missoula Study" examined four of the I.N.D. patients for any negative effects of long-term marijuana use - something the government refused to do with their own patients and data.
View the entire study presentation from the same conference:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9112662989507508748

Other legal patients on the study - Elvy Musikka and George McMahon also told their stories at the conference. View the entire patient panel, chaired by M.L.Mathre, President of Patients Out of Time:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1666087285986005807

Irvin Rosenfeld has called for establishing new protocols for medical Cannabis patients under the Compassionate I.N.D., providing data useful for removing marijuana from FDA's "Schedule One - having no medical value" classification. View Irvin and legal marijuana patient(glaucoma)Elvy Musikka adressing these issues again in 2004 at 3rd Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7910101114200015716

Conferences hosted by Patients Out of Time. DVDs are available at:
http://www.medicalcannabis.com

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[jerryandrewlee]

The video speaks for itself.

Cannabis should be legalized!

seriously it really should be.

[tiamtheelf]

I'm an atheist, but even god did exist, CANNABIS would be its creation.

Why would man-made drugs be legal while natural drugs like CANNABIS are illegal?

god, please legalise it.

[xaxie1]

@tiamtheelf

God created the tree of knowledge and told people not to eat from it because it was evil lol.

Not everything that is in God's creation is good for you, however having said that

Cannabis should be legalised! :D

[10Nescr]

Medicinal Cannabis Legalization is Right! Give patients the treatment they need and deserve. A better health, a better more enjoyable life!

[NeeKroVal]

they needa put me in a research program i swallow smoke

[fuzzyone99]

Imagine having to wait ten fucking years with bone tumors tearing your muscles apart while you wait for the government to tell you that they won't prosecute you for relieving your condition.

[NCCPN]

Call your NC legislator and tell them to pass HB 1380 the NC Medical Marijuana Act.

Every joint that Irvin has smoked is sent to him from Raleigh, NC!

NC Citizens Demand Equal Protection.

[ladivadivala]

How can anybody watch this and still believe that the Federal Government is acting in your best interest? The whole time that they have been giving this man his Cannabis medicine the Fed has been saying that Cannabis has no medical benefit. They are still saying it today because Cannabis is still a schedule 1 Drug. Maybe it is time to stop believing the lies and start reading and investigating.

[dumbtrooper]

i been depresif all my dam life until i blow a single smoke of the herb it was the revelation for my whole life

[TheLostRepublic]

why should it not be used as a preventative medication?

Since THC has been proved to reduce/eliminate tumors and cancerous cells wouldn't it also prevent the initial development of those cells/tumors?

Many of my friends are police officers with a combined field experience of over 40 years, and i bet you will change your tune about marijuana use by the public after u have a few DUI arrests and have uncooperative people who puke in the back seat of your cruiser to deal with haha.

[theshow2k8]

Thats what it's there for though,for us to smoke daily.

[st0ph8in]

hummer0010, Come to Louisiana so we can blow Marijuana smoke in your face when you become a cop!