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CARA SANTA MARIA: Hi everyone. Cara Santa Maria here. And that’s Dr. Igor Grant, the director of the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research. And in 2007, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. I think he knows a little bit more about medical marijuana than this guy.
IGOR GRANT: Even though evidence continues to mount that cannabis can be useful as a medicine from a social policy standpoint there seems to be not a recognition of that.
IG: I think the emerging evidence for medicinal uses of cannabis are strongest now for management of pain, and particularly for the management of a type of pain that is chronic and difficult to treat called neuropathic pain that we see that people with AIDS have, some people with diabetes, and certain kinds of injuries…
IG: For typical adults who are using marijuana modestly…there don’t seem to be very many biological or medical consequences… (more)
