Prescribing The Forbidden Medicine
August, 1998
In my book Marihuana Reconsidered I recounted the history of medical cannabis. But it was not until 1972, a year after the book's publication, that what had been an issue of public policy became a personal one. Early that spring I fell into conversation at a dinner party with Dr. Emil Frei, who had recently arrived from Texas to serve as head of cancer research at Boston's Children's Hospital. Dr. Frei told me about an 18-year-old Houston man who had become increasingly reluctant to undergo chem...
