Medical-marijuana pioneer Irvin Rosenfeld has been receiving pot from the federal government since 1982. During that time, Rosenfeld, who's prescribed 300 joints a month, now estimates that he's lit up 115,000 times. "The quality has gotten a little better," he tells CelebStoner.

"I get a tin every 25 days and there was a time I had to smoke more because the quality was worse. I always smoke unless I'm on a plane, than I have cookies. It's just a shame that the Feds have never wanted to study us - the federal patients."

Rosenfeld is referring to himself, Elvy Musikka, George McMahon and Barbara Douglass - the four remaining patients in the Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program, which started in 1976 with glaucoma sufferer Robert Randall receiving the first-ever medical-marijuana prescription. The marijuana is grown at the University of Mississippi and processed in North Carolina.

The 56-year-old Fort Lauderdale stockbroker (at right, with his government-supplied weed stash) suffers from a rare life-threatening disorder known as bone spurs. Rosenfeld first discovered that marijuana could relieve pain and inflammation when he was 18. In 1982, he became the second patient after Randall to be accepted into the IND program, which was shut down 10 years later.

"I then became an advocate," Rosenfeld says, "telling my story to legislators, students and concerned citizens across the country."

He also became a major-league pothead. "The first thing I do every morning is smoke two joints as I watch my business shows," he explains. "Then another on my drive to work." It adds up to 10 to 12 joints a day.

"I'm in great shape because of cannabis," Rosenfeld adds. "I would be bedridden without it,"


Also see:

Medical Marijuana on the Move
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CelebStoner News

Comments (1)

1 Monday, 23 November 2009 03:59

Tms

He would be better of vaporising that MJ.

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