In the Media (selected)

New Jersey’s cannabis commission met Tuesday evening to hear public input on one of the flashpoint issues of marijuana legalization: ...
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Developers are marketing the devices to law enforcement and employers, but experts say they don’t actually prove impairment. Article excerpt: ...
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Dr. Bryon Adinoff Doctors for Cannabis Regulation (DFCR) is pleased to announce Dr. Bryon Adinoff as the organization’s new president ...
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Dr. Bryon Adinoff participated in a panel discussion for Texas Public Radio regarding recently enacted legislation for Texas’ medical cannabis ...
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Article excerpt: Roxanne Frost, a psychology student at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, consumes cannabis every day to ...
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Article excerpt: After an 87th Legislature that saw Texas lawmakers introduce some 60 bills related to reforming the state’s marijuana ...
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The Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries, are hosting an online event to honor Dr. Lester Grinspoon on ...
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Article excerpt: Cities and towns in New Jersey will soon have to decide if they will ban businesses that grow, ...
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DFCR expert Hugh Blumenfeld, MD, Ph.D. and DFCR Founder and board President David L. Nathan, MD make the case in ...
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Article excerpt: As marijuana legalization spreads across U.S. states, so does a debate over whether to set pot policy by ...
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Article excerpt: In the retail cannabis industry, labeling and regulation go hand in hand. Within the United States, cannabis labeling ...
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Group—Made Up of Current and Former Cannabis Regulators, Public Health Professionals, Criminal Justice Reform Advocates, Civil Rights Attorneys & Social ...
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that employers must reimburse employees for medical marijuana when it is prescribed by ...
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Article excerpt: The AMA actively supports cannabis prohibition, a cornerstone of the drug war, even as it hypocritically condemns systemic ...
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Article excerpt: Using tobacco, marijuana or any drug at a young age “primes the receptors in the brain to expect ...
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Article excerpt: Q2 Clinic, the first international chain of Endocannabinology clinics, today announced the appointment of Dr. Peter Grinspoon, M.D ...
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Article excerpt: As a proud member of the NJUMR coalition, Doctors for Cannabis Regulation is grateful for all the hard ...
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Article excerpt: A coalition of civil rights and drug policy reform groups is calling on the governor of New Jersey ...
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Article excerpt: There’s more evidence that smoking marijuana can be dangerous for people with heart disease, according to two new ...
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DFCR experts Mikhail Kogan, MD and Leslie Mendoza Temple, MD serve as guest editors for Elsevier’s Complementary Therapies in Medicine ...
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Article excerpt Monica Taing talks very fast. Enthusiasm is her accelerator pedal as the 29-year-old pharmacist from Jersey City describes ...
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Article excerpt: Public question No. 1 on the general election ballot would amend the New Jersey State Constitution to legalize ...
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Article excerpt: Peter Grinspoon is a primary care physician at Harvard Medical School. He’s also on the board of the ...
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Article excerpt: “Do you approve of amending the Constitution to legalize a controlled form of marijuana called ‘cannabis’? Only adults ...
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Article excerpt: This story is part of a series of profiles, The CannaInfluencers: The people shaping the cannabis industry in ...
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DFCR Founder and President David Nathan co-authors an opinion piece with Paul Armentano regarding the upcoming vote to legalize cannabis ...
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Article excerpt: Dr Peter Grinspoon is a primary care physician, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and a contributing editor ...
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Article excerpt: Despite being signed into law in July 2019, many of the improvements touted by Jake Honig’s Law, which ...
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Recently new guidelines were issued on medical cannabis for chronic pain. An excerpt: Chronic pain patients can be treated with ...
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Article excerpt: Delta-9-THC, the main drug in cannabis plants that gets people high, can also be a potent medicine. It ...
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David L. Nathan, MD on introducing the Universal Cannabis Product Symbol and the Universal Cannabis Information Label at Cannabis Science ...
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) led a group of 16 public health organizations and over 100 public ...
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From the article: When voters head to the polls in November two initiatives regarding the legalization of medical marijuana will ...
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Article excerpt: “CBG is interesting in a lot of different ways,” says Peter Grinspoon, MD, primary care physician at Massachusetts ...
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Originally appeared at the American Journal of Endocannabinoid Medicine The-Science-of-the-Endocannabinoid-System ...
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Article excerpt: Dr. Lester Grinspoon passed away peacefully this morning, just a day after celebrating his 92nd birthday. As a ...
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Article excerpt: In 2016, Portland voters approved a 3 percent local tax on cannabis sales—money that was promised to fund ...
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Media Contact: Stephen Carter E: media@dfcr.org Ph: (202) 930-0097 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for Cannabis Regulation Announces the Appointment of ...
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DFCR President and Founder Dr. David Nathan recently spoke to the Cannabis Policy Now podcast to talk about why more ...
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“It’s mostly talking and at the end patients get an electronic copy of everything. They don’t even have to take ...
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While they may feel scary, bad highs typically aren’t life-threatening, says Peter Grinspoon, MD, primary care physician at Massachusetts General ...
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In a recent conversation published in NJ Cannabis Insider, David Nathan, a Princeton-based psychiatrist and the founder of Doctors for ...
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Speaking with the publication Every Day Health, DFCR board member Monica Taing touched on the “entourage effect” in cannabis. Article ...
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Washington, D.C. – The global COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered life around the world. The disease, which causes serious respiratory ...
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Washington, D.C. — The Marijuana Policy Project and other organizations are urging law enforcement officials to dramatically curtail arrests for ...
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Washington, D.C. — In response to escalating efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 by social distancing, the Marijuana Policy ...
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WSHU Public Radio, which broadcasts in New York and Connecticut, invited Dr. David Nathan to its program to discuss cannabis ...
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Mississippians for Compassionate Care invited Dr. Rachel Knox to discuss their “Medical Marijuana 2020” campaign, which seeks to legalize medical ...
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David Hershkovits – Founder, Publisher and previous Editor in Chief of PAPER Magazine – explores the budding cannabis industry through ...
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Article excerpt: As the marijuana industry buds in New Jersey, Raritan Valley Community College is offering a new program designed ...
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“The enthusiasm for CBD has clearly outpaced the hard-core scientific evidence for what it actually does,” says Peter Grinspoon, instructor ...
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Military Matters, a podcast that explores issues important to service members, veterans, contractors, and the communities that support them. Episode ...
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Al Harrington, the former NBA forward and founder of cannabis company Viola, is championing medical cannabis in basketball. “The day-to-day ...
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Article excerpt: The Science of Cannabis Symposium held its first annual meeting on November 15, 2019, at Columbia University in ...
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New Jersey Assembly and Senate committees held hearings on Thursday to discuss a resolution that would put the question of ...
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Article excerpt: In response to the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis (Marijuana) Act, which was signed into law by ...
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The dispensing of medical marijuana varies significantly by state, with some states allowing risker environments than others, said Monica Bopha ...
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Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and the author of Tell Your Children: The Truth About Madness, ...
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The most extreme pro-cannabis narratives claim that cannabis is harmless, even a cure-all for diseases that has been suppressed by ...
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon speaks with Thinking Outside the Bud podcast host Bruce Eckfeldt. Peter Grinspoon, MD, is a primary care ...
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“We must stop using a sledgehammer to kill a weed.” – David L. Nathan MD, DFPA Analytical Cannabis covers Dr ...
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Doctors Group Pushes For Legalizing Marijuana, from NY State of Politics, Spectrum News, 6/12/2019. As medical professionals and healthcare providers, ...
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon writes for Harvard Health Blog about cannabis edibles. Full article: Cannabis is medicine – don’t make it ...
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Spectrum News New York coverage of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation backing the legalization of marijuana in New York ...
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Article excerpt: A study has found that Cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive ingredient in hemp and marijuana, could prove effective in treating ...
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Article excerpt: As more states legalize medical marijuna, former NFL players have a message for the league’s top brass: stop ...
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Dr. Peter Grinspoon speaks with Blunt Talk Podcast host Brit Smith. Peter Grinspoon, MD, is a primary care physician at ...
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“Psychosis is a known risk for violence and cannabis use is a known risk for psychosis,” @AlexBerenson, former NYT reporter ...
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During a panel on CNN, Dr. David Nathan addresses concerns about psychosis and general dangers of cannabis posed by Alex ...
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CBS 3 Philadelphia covers testimony to New Jersey lawmakers by Dr. David L. Nathan, Founder and President of Doctors for ...
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“There’s just so much noise and chatter because there’s so many harm studies being funded, much more so than benefit ...
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The island of Manhattan has hundreds of stores selling alcohol and tobacco products and pharmacies offering prescription drugs, not to ...
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“In states where medical cannabis is legal, recent studies have shown a 25 percent reduction in prescription opioid overdose deaths,” ...
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Asked about concerns about overloaded emergency rooms, Jordan Tishler, a spokesman for Doctors for Cannabis Regulation who prescribes medical marijuana ...
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The Washington Post covers the differing views on marijuana ...
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High NY’s Higher Learning interview with Doctors for Cannabis Regulation ...
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David Jenison, Editor-in-Chief at PRØHBTD speaks with Dr. Sunil Aggarwal regarding how the primary force opposing prohibition has been medical ...
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David Jenison, Editor-in-Chief at PRØHBTD, sits down with Dr. David L. Nathan, President of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation, to discuss ...
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President and Founder of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation (DFCR) David. L. Nathan speaks with the Washington Post regarding the formation ...
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