1. Dr. Melanie Dreher, reefer researcher
Despite political pressure to have it otherwise,
Dr. Dreher's research reveals that
pot-smoking moms can have smart, healthy babies.
By Pete Brady - Sunday, November
Dr. Melanie Dreher, reefer researcher
Thanks for introduction
Despite four deanships in highly regarded schools of nursing
Chancellor’s medal
Citation from the ambassador to Jamaica
Alumni of the Year
If you google me I
I thought a lot about how this presentation – share my experiences as a researcher that – in retrospect – reflect what was taking place in our society

2. medical anthropological study about the EFFECTS of use -
Clinical component
Ethnogaphic componenet
Culture for marijuana in Jamaica
recreationally
Sacrament
Medicine
Culture for marijuana – set of social rules about who could use it

4. Became My disseration –Also funded by NIDA
While I was there the debate was heating up in the United States and I was visited by representatives of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse
No difference in productivity between users and non-users

5. In Jamaica, men smoked and women drank the tea
As I recruited men for the study, hung out with them at work and got to hear their stories
Busha’s would come and give the men something to smoke
They would go from this

6. Working Men and Ganja: Marijuana Use in Rural Jamaica
Author: 
Melanie Dreher
Institute for the Study of Human Issues. Philadelphia, 1982
Year: 
1982
Led to publication of this book that has been stolen out of every university library in the United States
Cemented my reputation as a reefer researcher
People from NIDA called and asked me if I would consider doing a post-doc

7. I was interested in the role of women
They prepared it, cultivated it, distributed it, sold it
They also worked in the field but didn’t smoke like the men
They gave it to their children to improve school performance, exams, concentration

9. Found its way into an NIH publication

10. They gave it to their children to improve school performance, exams, concentration

11. While doing the baby study . . . More and more women smoking . . .

13. I really liked this because it shows how creative you can be with hair rolers

21. Canisol: Rx for Glaucoma Professor Emeritus, Dr. Manley West
University of the West Indies
Canisol:
Rx for Glaucoma

22. A Legal Marijuana User

25. Eli Lilly

26. This is a picture of the solid extract from which cannabis medicines were prepared - I think some might call it “hash”

27. Searle
Used in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and dysmenorrhea,
Acute symptoms following oophorectomy
Combines ovarian therapy sedative and tonic medication

28. Typical prescription
Unclear what malady afflicted Mrs. Puttock of Pond Creek, in the state of Oklahoma (where a prison term for possession of marijuana is now mandatory) but she was advised to apply cannabis the ailing “part” each night.
I’ll just leave it to your imagination what that part might be.

29. And even Johnson and Johnson used it for corns

30. Even vets were aware of the medicinal value of cannabis for farm animals to relieve colic and cattle bloat
Over the counter in a farms store you could get a compound that was
90% alcohol
16 g, Cannabis sativa
Belladonna
And Capsicum

31. Cannabinoid system is intricately involved in the normal human physiology- control of movement, paid, reproduction, memory, appetite, to name just a few.
It helps us eat
It helps us sleep
It helps to relieve pain (conjunction with opioids)
It helps us to forget – very important function (ADD)
It helps us to do monotonous work
As an anthropologist: evolutionary value: pain of childbirth,
It’s role in emotion (what makes us uniquely human – man is a social animal – achieved through cooperation
It provides pleasure for important human functions such as eating and sex.-human’s don’t have a heat

32. And along came.
An assuming scientist named Raphael Mechoulam (Nobel Prize) was quietly working in Israel
Delta 9 THC – tetrahydrocannabinol – psychoactive ingredient in cannabis
(over 30 active ingredients – Manley West in Jamaica could invent medication for Glaucoma)
In 1988 Dr. Allyn Howell at St. Louis University discovered the specific receptor in the brain for THC (we now know exist all over the body)
In 19 Mechoulam found the endogenous cannabinoid system – endocannabinoid (anandamine – inner bliss)

33. William DeVane

34. Allyn Howlett

36. CBD: Reported Therapeutic Effects Behavioral Heath
Anxiety and stress
Depression
Schizophrenia
Panic
Withdrawal from tobacco addiction
Inhibition of reward-facilitating effects of morphine and cocaine
Obsessive-compulsive behavior
Disruption of consolidation of specific and generalized fear memories PTSD
Aggression
Obesity (food consumption, appetite reduction, metabolic syndrome)
Female sexual satisfaction/orgasm

37. Medical Uses of Cannabis
Cancer
Opioid Addiction
Anorexia
Bronchial Asthma
Chemotherapy-induced Harm
Constipation
Cocaine Addiction
Dementia
Fibromyalgia
Glaucoma
Lymphoma
Neuropathy
Multiple Sclerosis
Tourette Syndrome
Pain
Brachial Plexus Neuropathies
Insomnia
Multiple Spasticity
Memory Disorders
Social Anxiety Disorders
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Nausea

38. CBD: Reported Therapeutic Effects Behavioral Heath
Anxiety and stress
Depression
Schizophrenia
Panic
Withdrawal from tobacco addiction
Inhibition of reward-facilitating effects of morphine and cocaine
Obsessive-compulsive behavior
Disruption of consolidation of specific and generalized fear memories PTSD
Aggression
Obesity (food consumption, appetite reduction, metabolic syndrome)
Female sexual satisfaction/orgasm

39. CBD Reported Effects: Neurological Protection
Preventing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
Restless Leg syndrome
Epilepsy and convulsions
Chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain
Retinopathy associated with diabetes
Memory rescuing effects of neurodegenerative disorders
Protection against neuron damage due to neurological diseases or injuries
Parkinson's disease
Huntington’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease
Cerebral infarction
Hepatic encephalopathy
Traumatic brain injury
Cerebral ischemia
Spinal cord injury

40. CBD Reported Effects Neuro Protection
Auto-immune diseases (e.g. diabetes type 1)
Inflammation (Crohn’s disease, colitis, pancreatitis, rheumatoid arthritis)
Reduce infarct size and increases blood flow in stroke
Retinopathy associated with diabetes
Anti-emetic and anti-nausea
Protects against myocardial, liver, renal ischemic/reperfusion injury
Protects against hypoxia/ischemia injury
Neuro protection against neuronal damage due to Parkinson’s Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, cerebral infarction, hepatic encephalopathy; traumatic brain injury, cerebral ischemia, spinal cord injury, memory rescuing effects
Epilepsy and convulsions
Protects against airway obstruction

41. CBD Reported Therapeutic Effects: General Medical
Auto-immune diseases (e.g. diabetes type 1)
Auto-immune diseases (e.g. )GVHD
Auto-immune Familial Mediterranean fever
Inflammation (Chrohn’s disease, colitis, pancreatitis, rheumatoid arthritis
Retinopathy associated with diabetes
Anti-emetic and anti-nausea
Protects against hypoxia/ischemic injury
Cancer and resistance to cancer chemotherapy; cancer cell migration; inhibits angiogenesis
Chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain
Protects against airway obstruction
Osteoarthritis
Gout
Kidney injury

46. A Prisoner Shortage

47. The term Reefer Madness was coined to signify the drug crazed abandon
Women cry for it
Men die for it
To this day there has never been a death attributed to marijuana use.
In 1937, after testimony from Harry Anslinger , head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Marijuana Tax Act was pushed through Congress
Five years later, all possession and use of the drug was outlawed. Despite weeks and weeks of testimony from the AMA and the pharmaceutical industry, it was removed from the Physician’s Desk Reference in 1942