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1/14/18 notes on Medical Board Watch creation, Mimi, Valerie

1/14/18 notes on Medical Board Watch creation, Mimi, Valerie Due to a few requests, I would like to re-create my first website  MedicalBoardWatch.com (also MedBoardWatch.com ). Although I haven’t found the program for the old site yet, I will be posting the individual documents which I either wrote or collated from other sources, for my first website. I created MedBoardWatch when I was among 12 of the 20 more outspoken medical cannabis physicians in California, who were being investigated by the Medical Board.  The multiple investigations were having their intended effect of making almost all physicians nervous and/or reluctant to write recommendations, even for severe illness. (Although I was not the FIRST doctor to do a cannabis evaluation in California, I did my first ones BEFORE Prop 215, since San Francisco already had a medical cannabis law before Prop 215. Dennis Peron’s club just required the patients name, diagnosis, and physician signature.) Physicians
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8/1/03 Presented to the Medical Board of California Topic: Packet of Vital Information on Medical Cannabis I encourage doctors to familiarize ourselves with the abundant literature easily available on this safe and effective medicine. Contents : July, 2003 Medical Cannabis  Resource List  (3 pages) Risks  Associated with cannabis use/Missoula Chronic Use Study (Russo et al, 2002) (1 pg) Review of  Therapeutic Effects  (Grotenhermen and Russo, 2002) (5 pages) July, 2003 Medical Cannabis  Resource  list JOURNAL Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics; quarterly;$60/year;  www.haworthprsss.com BOOKS Russo and Grotenhermen; Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential; Haworth Press, 2002;  http://www.haworthpress.com Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences: Marijuana and Medicine, Assessing the Science Base; National Academy Press, 1999 Full text available online at:    www.nap.edu Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts; Zimmer and
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8/1/03 Presented to the Medical Board of California

8/1/03 Presented to the Medical Board of California Topic: Packet of Vital Information on Medical Cannabis I encourage doctors to familiarize ourselves with the abundant literature easily available on this safe and effective medicine. Contents : July, 2003 Medical Cannabis  Resource List  (3 pages) Risks  Associated with cannabis use/Missoula Chronic Use Study (Russo et al, 2002) (1 pg) Review of  Therapeutic Effects  (Grotenhermen and Russo, 2002) (5 pages) July, 2003 Medical Cannabis  Resource  list JOURNAL Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics; quarterly;$60/year;  www.haworthprsss.com BOOKS Russo and Grotenhermen; Cannabis and Cannabinoids, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential; Haworth Press, 2002;  http://www.haworthpress.com Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences: Marijuana and Medicine, Assessing the Science Base; National Academy Press, 1999 Full text available online at:    www.nap.edu Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts; Zimmer and
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5/8/03 Presented to the Medical Board of California

5/8/03 Presented to the Medical Board of California May 8, 2003 Members of the Medical Board of California, As a physician practicing Family and general medicine in Berkeley for this past 23 years, and performing medical cannabis evaluations, I feel I must go on record regarding what I consider a misallocation of valuable Medical Board resources and an injustice to a number of educated, sincere, and responsible doctors, and their many seriously-ill patients. I graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1974. I am trained in Family Practice through UC Davis, but have also been an emergency room physician, and medical director of skilled nursing facilities.  I have done medical-legal consulting on malpractice cases, reviewing records for the plaintiff, and testifying in depositions, and trial depositions.  I have been on the credentials committee of my local hospital, and been a preceptor for new doctors to the medical staff, and have therefore reviewed oth
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