Sunil Aggarwal Explains the American Medical Association's History Regarding Cannabis
Sunil Aggarwal, PhD, MD candidate at the University of Washington School of Medicine, explains how important cannabis was to medical science prior to marijuana prohibition and how the American Medical Association (AMA) supported cannabis therapeutics (medical marijuana).
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Dr. Sunil Aggarwal Discusses the Safety of Medical Cannabis
Toxicity is defined as death from consumption of Aspirin. Will kill you 10 times the standard dose, or something like that and over time Aspirin will tear up your gut, your GI. Cannabis if you take 10 times the recommended dose for pain relief will perhaps cause some sedation maybe a little agitation, but would not cause any death and or organ damage as far as the science shows.
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Dr. Sunil Aggarwal Discusses The Geography of Medical Marijuana
My name is Sunil Aggarwal. I am a trainee in the medical scientist program at the University of Washington, 4th year medical student, I hold a PhD in medical geography. Recently I was a medical student delegate to the American Medical Association. Cannabis is a botanical medicine that has an established track record of safety, non-toxicity, for 3 millennia of documented history. And effectiveness that’ been shown in numerous highly randomized control trials, all the way to case reports from numerous cultures around the world. Plus the psychologically activating properties of cannabis, which I thought, were important for stress reduction and quality of life. Plus it’s discovery, it helped caused us to discover a signaling system, in humans and throughout most living organisms, called the cannabinoid signaling system which was fascinating from a neuro-scientific standpoint for me.
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