Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, wrote in a March 1, 2007 editorial in the Boston Globe titled "Marijuana as Wonder Drug":
"It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that we still need 'proof' of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years. [...]
Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug."
March 1, 2007 Lester Grinspoon
Time magazine wrote in a Dec. 5, 2005 article "The Year in Medicine":
"Research into the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of cannabis continued to bolster the case for the medicinal use of marijuana, making the 'patient pot laws' that have passed in 11 states seem less like a social movement than a legitimate medical trend."
Dec. 5, 2005 Time