NORML National Marijuana Forum - Dr. Robert Melamede - CU Boulder 2009

NORML National Marijuana Forum - Dr. Robert Melamede - CU Boulder 2009

Filmed by Christopher Pezza of April 19, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/user/CPezza85

World-renowned Medical Cannabis Research expert Dr. Robert Melamede has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the City University of New York. Dr. Melamede is a retired Chairman of the Biology Department at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in 2005, where he continues to teach and research cannabinoids, cancer, and DNA repair.

Dr. Melamede is recognized as a leading authority on the therapeutic uses of cannabis, and has authored or co-authored dozens of papers on a wide variety of scientific subjects.

Dr. Melamede's current focus is on integrating far from equilibrium thermodynamic physics with the biology of life and health and the unique evolutionary role played by the endocannabinoid system in these processes.

Dr. Melamede also serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine, the Scientific Advisory Board of Americans for Safe Access, Sensible Colorado, Scientific Advisor for Cannabis Therapeutics as well as a variety other of state dispensaries and marijuana patient advocacy groups.

Dr. Melamede frequently serves as an expert witness in cannabis-related trials.

Dr. Melamede's testimony was critical in the recent trial of growers for the Vancouver Island Compassion Society that resulted Canadian Court's ruling that their current medical marijuana laws were unconstitutional.

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"We're seeing people truly benefit with glioma, with breast cancer, with prostate cancer, with colorectal cancers, skin cancer, numbers of cancers. And I have 730 articles on my computer showing that cannabis kills cancer cells in tissue culture and in animal studies."

Dr. Melamede